Poll: Do you have close relatives that are Republican?

[Slaughtermeyer]

Do you have at least 1 close relative (brother, sister, or parent) that is a Republican?

[patrice]

1. My brother is running for the state house.

And my mother-in-law is . . . .

[itzamirakul]

3. Oh, my goodness! How will you ever vote AGAINST him?

eom

[patrice]

6. He's not in my house district.

And I would easily if he were. He is a perfect Republican Neo-con.

We have disagreed deeply ever since we were teenagers and I debated the question "Should there be an international organization to control the proliferation of nuclear weapons?" in high school. I was required to construct valid cases pro and con and I became very frustrated with him because he couldn't/wouldn't at least hypothetically consider the points in favor of such a thing.

[itzamirakul]

Thank goodness! At least your vote is one less thing for you

guys to wrangle about! :)

You must have helped him become one heck of a debater, else he would hardly be in politics.

[patrice]

20. We don't wrangle anymore. Haven't for years.

He knows what I think. I know what he thinks. End of story.

We are family, so we get along, because we were brought up to put family first.

He doesn't debate anyone. It's a very rural district, not much election activity. He's knocking on doors of course.

[pooja]

2. my husband, but he doesn't vote... so who am I to prod him into

involvment

[HockeyMom]

7. Mine, too

Your so called, Rockefeller Republican - fiscally conserative, socially moderate. He is really, really PISSED with the Republican Party of today. We don't talk about it. I just smile with an "I TOLD you so" look.

[Maraya1969]

29. LOL Now THIS is a great example of "live and let live"

:rofl:

[Monkeyman]

4. Three but they will vote Democrat this time

I took them to the V.A. and let them hear from those who were there. Changes minds

[Slaughtermeyer]

5. V.A. hospital?

You mean a VA hospital? Are most of the patients at a VA hospital anti-Bush?

[iconoclastic cat]

12. Holy crap! You have some cajones, my friend. nt

[Pushed To The Left]

23. That's similar to what happened to Ed Schultz!

He has talked about it on the air. He was a hardcore conservative until his wife took him to a shelter for homeless veterans. He has said that that's when his political views started to change.

[snowbear]

39. His wife (Wendy) ROCKS !!!

I sent the station a question once, and Wendy sent back an incredible response.. One of those e-mails that you keep forever!

She's AWESOME!! (I can see why Eddie says how lucky he is all the time)

[longship]

8. My twin sister voted for Chimp--TWICE!

I dunno what's wrong with her. She's very, very intelligent.

I love her very much and we are very close, but I just can't discuss politics with her.

[calico1]

24. Well, we know now who the evil twin is!

:D :hi:

[mitchtv]

9. 5 of us 3 pukes

My sister and I are the only ones with common sense. Wing nut brother might not vote this time, he's disgusted. He once told me Chimp was the greates president since Lincoln, I told him "Lincoln?, More like a Ford."

[rhino47]

10. My husband is a republican

He is so disgusted with rethugs he has joined the casey campaign here in Pa.

[liberaliraqvet26]

11. old fashioned northeastern republicans.

they hate the religious right and neocons, so they are now RINO's

[TheCowsCameHome]

15. Stubborn yankees, eh? Today's GOP is different than the old party

[City Lights]

13. No, but my extended family is full of them.

The rest of my dad's family consists of self-righteous religious conservatives, which is why I rarely see them. :puke:

[TheCowsCameHome]

14. Frustrating. Very frustrating. Hard to talk sense to narrow minds.

[loves_dulcinea]

16. 2 of my sisters and my brother

i think they're red to spite my parents. i've had shouting matches with one of my sisters, i refer to her as the fundamentalist. we've begun communicating again, finally. i've always been close to my brother, we were always able to speak with one another. my other sister has her head up her ass. she doesn't answer my messages. it's amazing, they bought the idea from pundits that because i'm liberal, that i am somehow "namby pamby". i cured them of that, but at what cost? when siblings won't speak to eachother because of politics, how many recourses are left? as a hispanic i should say that traditionally, nothing is more important than family. i continue to reach out.

[Arugula Latte]

33. Welcome to DU!

:hi: :toast:

Keep working on your sister ...

[JanusAscending]

17. Yes , I'm sorry to say that I do.

I have a son who is a "Fundie" and his only reason for supporting Bush, twice, was because "Democrats kill babies"!! Another Son was of the Rep. persuasion, but has seen the light! I have a daughter and SIL who are "fundies" who voted for Bush twice, but are now having deep regrets, as both of their children are in the Service. My Granddaughter is in the Navy, and her Brother is in the Air force. I have one other child , which I'm ashamed to say is my biggest disappointment. She used to live in Cape Cod, very close to the Kennedy Compound. She worked as a Park Ranger for the National Seashore Adm. She had an opportunity presented to her which she could not refuse, as she has been a Clinton hater, and Bush lover since the first stolen election. She took a position in Washington DC as "Chief Administration Assistant to the Secretary of Commerce." I haven't spoken to her since I tried to reason her out of taking the job, by telling her, "why move my grandchildren to DC, for a job that is only going to last until 2008"??? I am heartbroken over this, as you can well imagine. I keep asking myself, Lord where did I go wrong????:cry:

[Maraya1969]

30. Aw junebug maybe she is just traveling the path she needs to for now

It is certainly not your fault. Maybe someone will take her to a homeless shelter for Veterans one day. :hug:

[JanusAscending]

36. Thanks for your words of encouragement!

She , being a Christian woman, should have made the effort herself, but I do pray that the Lord send an Angel to whisper in her ear, and she would then "see the light"!!:hug: back at ya!!

[Lady Effingbroke]

18. My whole fucking family.

Proud members of the willfully ignorant 29%.

[MrBenchley]

19. My family

used to spit on the floor when Herbert Hoover's name was mentioned. I don't think I met a Republican until I went to college...and then I was astonished that they were even more full of shit up close than they seemed to be from afar.

[AtomicKitten]

21. My entire family is composed of religious nutjob Republicans.

And, yes, that is what's wrong with me.

[Blue_In_AK]

22. We're ALL Dems and proud of it.

[wiley]

25. They're all voting Democratic Party this time

and they're even vocal about it. The Republican mistakes have been inexcusable, and often criminal. They get that.

[rep the dems]

26. Nope.

My mom and sister are both very liberal, and my dad is a registered democrat with mostly liberal views though he hates Bill Clinton and sometimes seems to give Bush much more credit than he deserves. Never the less, he voted for Clinton both times, Gore in 2000, and Kerry in 2004.

[tinfoilinfor2005]

27. Yes, all of them except for one daughter.

Who is a brilliant Democrat like her mother. :)

[chieftain]

28. No close relatives but several cousins ,whose Democratic

parents would be appalled at their offsprings' current political affiliations, have gone over to the dark side.
In some ways they are emblematic of what has happened to the Democratic Party. Their parents were working class men and women who were helped by the local party machine. The kids grew up in suburbs that would not have existed but for the GI Bill and Democratic leadership. They benefited mightily from New Deal Programs and Union power and now they sit on their self satisfied 401K Plans and speak about the need for personal responsibility, the Frank Luntz formulation for what the swells used to call the need to pull one self up by one's bootstraps.
Family gatherings were always places for enjoyable political discussion but now the ditto heads hold forth with sophomoric pronouncements and know-nothing analyses. The funny thing is that most of my freshly minted Republican relations are living pay check to pay check. They don't begin to comprehend that their and their children's economic future has been sold down the river by their new party.

[elizm]

31. My whole FREAKING family! n/t

[mopinko]

32. my favorite sister

married a big self hater, former alcoholic, dittohead, and became infected. starting spouting about kerry not bleeding for his purple hearts.
that was kind of the last straw. i was always sort of an outcast in the family. decided i could live without them.

[sarcasmo]

43. Not dealing with them, helps your mind. My grandmother had a saying

about my Mother. "The best way to deal with her is to not deal with her at all."

[marmar]

34. Hell No.

African Americans, from Detroit, several union members in the family....What are the odds that you could produce a Repug from that gene pool? :)

[The Sushi Bandit]

35. Yes - My in-Laws

they are all selfish jerks too

[yorkiemommie1]

37. my husband, my brothers

my daughter and i are staunch liberals!

my husband would vote GOP even if they dragged us off to Gitmo.

[snowbear]

38. Trying to understand the point of the poll...

Not that it's a bad poll or anything..

But hellz bellz, I have family members that range from a Texan "Bush lovin' Dad", to a "Floridian Dean Lovin brother", to an Independent "Votes on the candidate, not a one-issue alone Sis..

Don't we all have relatives that cover the whole political spectrum?



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[slackmaster]

40. Yes, many

My close blood relatives are about 1/3 Democratic, 1/3 Republican, and 1/3 independents.

[snowbear]

41. Welp.. that's better than a family chock full of R-thugs!

And they're 2/3 "not R's"

[slackmaster]

42. My mom quit the GOP about 10 years ago

She used to be VERY active in the party here in California, including serving as a campaign manager for one who was elected to the US House of Representatives.

She quit because, in her words "The party got taken over by wild-eyed right-wing religious zealots." Now she's an Indy.

I'm proud of her.

[zonmoy]

44. all but one sister

who is moderately retarded and as far as I know doesn't vote.

[New Earth]

45. my whole dad's side of the family

and even the people they all married....

i will tell you one thing, they sure know how to be a family and stick by eachother though. i love them all dearly, we just don't agree on a lot of things (politics/religion) but they are also pretty accepting people and love their family members no matter what. that's more than i can say for my mom's side, the liberal/non-religious side (not that i think it has anything to do with it)who always have a family member they have a grudge against. it's a new family member every few years or so with them. someone does something unacceptable, they are never forgiven.
i just find it ironic.

[sutz12]

46. Yeah, my niece and her husband, or at least I'm pretty sure.

I know they are both Christians.

A couple of weeks ago, she drove my older brother-visiting from Japan-and I out to see Mt St Helens in SW Washington. As we took off, the subject of what to play on the radio came up. My brother is a Country fan so he requested that. My niece and I pretty much know our respective political positions, so I, rather jokingly, said, "Well I'm a classic rock fan. I don't like talk radio much. If you put Rush on, I'm getting out of the car."

She made some kind of quiet remark, not too scathing, about how she listens to him. But, we listened to country, and classic county at that. BTW, my brother is 60, I'm 53, she's in her mid thirties. I don't discuss politics much with her. Most of the family is pretty liberal right now, or at least anti neo-con/Bush. She doesn't participate much when we all start Bush basing. Unfortunately, she can't. ;)

[orleans]

47. no, thank god! n/t

[OhioBlue]

48. my immediate family

are all independents. I'm pretty sure all that voted, voted for Kerry in '04. (step-mom, step-sister and sister-in-law didn't vote - even tho I pressed them hard)

Aunts, Uncles & Cousins - some dems, some repugs, mostly independents. I do have one cousin that I adored and admired before the '04 elections. She used to be liberal, but bought into the ditto-head bull shit. It's now hard to talk to her b/c I'm so disappointed in her. I can't believe the propaganda - talking points that fall out of her mouth. She used to have an independent, intelligent thought process. It breaks my heart that she has become so brain washed. (in more ways that just Republican talking points)

[Throd]

49. Most of them, except Uncle Dennis, are pretty moderate

[existentialist]

50. My father is a Republican

but he's a swing voter, sometimes voting democratic, and, way back in 1964, while still registered as a Republican he was the de facto campaign manager for a Democratic candidate for Congress.

This Year I'm pretty sure he's voting for Democrats (mostly).