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Be honest. If you've never voted for someone from the "other" party (or you've done it so infrequently that it pretty much doesn't matter, like you can think of that one time 30 years ago that you did, etc.), you are a straight ticket voter and just own it. You're hardly alone. The majority of voters vote a straight Democrat ticket where I live and, in other Texas cities, most vote a straight Republican ticket. In fact, it's funny. Where I live, the GOP laments that kind of voting (which I agree with) but promotes it anywhere Repubs are the majority...but I digress. If you're constantly lamenting the other side as being "cold hearted" or the "empty headed", why should there be a reluctance to admit that you'd never cast your vote for someone you percieve that way? So just be real.
getting the poll together
I am an independent, some R's, some D's, the occasional L's.
Parties suck.
Be honest. If you've never voted for someone from the "other" party (or you've done it so infrequently that it pretty much doesn't matter, like you can think of that one time 30 years ago that you did, etc.), you are a straight ticket voter and just own it. You're hardly alone. The majority of voters vote a straight Democrat ticket where I live and, in other Texas cities, most vote a straight Republican ticket. In fact, it's funny. Where I live, the GOP laments that kind of voting (which I agree with) but promotes it anywhere Repubs are the majority...but I digress. If you're constantly lamenting the other side as being "cold hearted" or the "empty headed", why should there be a reluctance to admit that you'd never cast your vote for someone you percieve that way? So just be real.
getting the poll together
Absolutely, earlier in my life i was a straight Republican voter I am now a straight Democratic voter.
Srsly? Since when?
Complaining about people who vote straight ticket is stupid. Both parties stand for certain things, and in many cases those things are mutually exclusive. They are far apart ideologically(except to for example libertarians, who when they view things from the far off place they inhabit, everything looks close). If there are 2 candidates on the ballot, one a republican and one a democrat, then it is far far far more likely that the democrat will stand much closer to me ideologically than the republican. While I do not vote straight ticket, it is exceptionally rare that I vote for anything other than a democrat.
And of course I do not call the other side "cold hearted" nor "empty headed". Kinda a failed attempt here X Factor.
I was trying to come up with the common complaint about both major parties. If you viewed that any other way or assumed that I meant that in a one sided way, the failure is actually yours. You do realize that straight ticket voting means you push that one button at the beginning of the ballot and everyone on that party benefits from that vote? You don't even look at the candidates name after that, so yeah, I think it's, at least, lazy. If I don't know either candidate, I don't vote for either, I don't blindly vote for the "R".
You assume incorrectly. Try reading my post again and see where it is in any way suggesting what you try and claim.
And yes, I do know what straight party voting is, as is also apparent from my post. Reading Is Fundamental.
Criticizing straight-ticket voting has been a ploy by the GOP to win elections for many decades now, just as with whining with term limits.
Except when GOPs get into office--then they forget about term-limiting themselves--up to seven Senate terms with some .
So, straight ticket Democrat, no doubt. It must be nice to be so convinced that your side is just so infallable and it's always the GOP responsible for everything.
I was trying to come up with the common complaint about both major parties. If you viewed that any other way or assumed that I meant that in a one sided way, the failure is actually yours. You do realize that straight ticket voting means you push that one button at the beginning of the ballot and everyone on that party benefits from that vote? You don't even look at the candidates name after that, so yeah, I think it's, at least, lazy. If I don't know either candidate, I don't vote for either, I don't blindly vote for the "R".
And, do you vote straight ticket Republican?
That button you speak of was done away with in Illinois in the early 1990s when Repubs had control of our Legislature and Governor--so there's that.
But we still have an open primary so I like that--I've voted in the GOP primary since 1972.
When voting for tickets, sexual orientation doesn't come into it for me.
:roll:
So, straight ticket Democrat, no doubt.
There are two kinds of straight ticket voters:
1) People who vote for a party in order to vote against the other party.
2) People who vote for a party because it most matches their own ideology.
Though it might sometimes be difficult to discern between the two types, we can often see the difference here at DP. The first group I have no respect for... they are actually not voting FOR anything. They are just voting destructively. The second group I have no issue with. They are voting for the ideology that they match up with.
As for me, it has depended. When I was much younger, I never voted for a major party, and in any major elections, I usually voted for myself, writing my name in.
Later on, I tended to vote Democrat as Democrats come closest to supporting where I stand on many issues, though not all. Presently, it is somewhat mixed, especially when it comes to voting for someone in my state. Though Democrats are more likely to get my vote because they support the positions that I support, how well a candidate has done in his term of office carries a LOT of weight with me. For that reason, even though I said here at DP I never would, in the lat gubernatorial election, I voted for Chris Christie. He's done a good job, and even though there are a few things of which I disagree with him, I wanted to support him for the good work he's done.
Be honest. If you've never voted for someone from the "other" party (or you've done it so infrequently that it pretty much doesn't matter, like you can think of that one time 30 years ago that you did, etc.), you are a straight ticket voter and just own it. You're hardly alone. The majority of voters vote a straight Democrat ticket where I live and, in other Texas cities, most vote a straight Republican ticket. In fact, it's funny. Where I live, the GOP laments that kind of voting (which I agree with) but promotes it anywhere Repubs are the majority...but I digress. If you're constantly lamenting the other side as being "cold hearted" or the "empty headed", why should there be a reluctance to admit that you'd never cast your vote for someone you percieve that way? So just be real.
getting the poll together
That sounds excellent, good for them. No doubt you see it as a dastardly GOP plot, as you've already stated.
It wouldn't happen here because the GOP is the one that benefits from it the most in this state.
Why does that not surprise me? Lol.
But voting a straight ticket means you're voting entirely on party lines completely regardless of the person (or type of person) you're voting for. That guy that you just heard in the news that was found in hotel room with a dead hooker? Yeah that was Congressman Crook and you just cast your vote for him solely based on the letter he has by his name. Sorry, yes, I think that's lazy.
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