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What parties are getting your votes?

Kulindahr

Kulindahr

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I just finished doing my Oregon mail-in ballot. On the issues, I voted in favor of a measure to make medical marijuana easier to get, including purchasing assistance for the poor, and against one establishing more mandatory minimum sentences (the judges here are against it).

When I did candidates, I didn't look at the parties until I was done. Turns out I picked people from the following:

Libertarian Party
Independent Party
Oregon Progressive Party
Democratic Party
Republican Party


I noted with interest that a Democrat I voted for was also the Independent Party candidate, and a Republican I voted for was also the Independent Party candidate.

That Republican, BTW, got my vote to a great degree because the Democrat in the race won the award for the most lying in commercials.


So five different parties got my vote. How'd you hand them out -- or plan to?
 
Planning on casting my "early vote" ballot tomorrow. I'll have to drive down to the County Courthouse.

Was thinking about voting "Straight Democratic Party" ticket.

But...then decided that was kind of lazy on my part.

SO!

I'm going to go down the ballot, and if there's a Republican running with a Libertarian running against them, I'm going to vote for the Libertarian.

If there's a Democrat Running against a Republican, I'm voting for the Democrat.

If there's an Independent running against a Green, I'm voting for the Green Party Candidate.

If there's a Constitutional Amendment to the Texas Constitution, unless it's a "clean up measure" I'm voting against it.

Otherwise, I expect to be out of the Courthouse in about 5 minutes. ;)

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I have few partisan candidates to vote for, but Patty Murray (D) is certainly getting my vote. She's been an excellent Senator.

Two of the few state reps I get to vote for are gay and have been the leaders in getting movement on our rights - and they've been good on other issues too, so they're getting my votes. (They are also Dems, and unopposed.)
 
Do you happen to know of a good place to compare candidates? I keep getting linked to their individual websites, and they all seem to say the generic "fake-smile" crap, and I can't take it anymore.
 
SuperPsyze said:
Do you happen to know of a good place to compare candidates? I keep getting linked to their individual websites, and they all seem to say the generic "fake-smile" crap, and I can't take it anymore.
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Can't really help you there, but you might check out Politifact.com.

Don't be confused by the home page, it has a search feature.

I'm sure that if you do some research there you might find what you're looking for.

For me that website is kinda like the Snopes.com of Politics. :D

I haven't always found what I wanted, but I've been able to discover some truth in what I was looking for even if that truth contradicted what I wanted to find. ;)
 
Kulindahr said:
I just finished doing my Oregon mail-in ballot. On the issues, I voted in favor of a measure to make medical marijuana easier to get, including purchasing assistance for the poor, and against one establishing more mandatory minimum sentences (the judges here are against it).

When I did candidates, I didn't look at the parties until I was done. Turns out I picked people from the following:

Libertarian Party
Independent Party
Oregon Progressive Party
Democratic Party
Republican Party


I noted with interest that a Democrat I voted for was also the Independent Party candidate, and a Republican I voted for was also the Independent Party candidate.

That Republican, BTW, got my vote to a great degree because the Democrat in the race won the award for the most lying in commercials.


So five different parties got my vote. How'd you hand them out -- or plan to?
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How do your elections work that you are voting for 5 different people, and how can one person be a candidate for more than one party??? :confused:

And I just noticed that a bunch of you are all voting even though you're in different states. Hmmm??
 
jubhug said:
I'm a paid Republican operative. I have little choice.
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:rotflmao:

bankside said:
How do your elections work that you are voting for 5 different people, and how can one person be a candidate for more than one party??? :confused:

And I just noticed that a bunch of you are all voting even though you're in different states. Hmmm??
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There were eight different offices covered by that list.

I'm not certain how the system works, but the way I understand it is that any party can endorse someone already picked by another party, and if the candidate accepts, he/she becomes that party's candidate as well.

The one party I absolutely refused to vote for was the Constitution Party -- on gay issues, they make the Republicans look pleasant, and on race issues, they have a habit of making the folks in south county (KKK/skinheads) happy.

I didn't mark any Pacific Green candidates, if anyone cares. :cool:
 
RazorzEdge88 said:
Meh. She leaves something to be desired.

Kuli, how did you vote in the governor's race, if you don't mind my asking?

I haven't decided how I'm going to vote here in Maryland.
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Libertarian.

The Dem is a proven loser, and the Repub, while I think a better candidate, doesn't strike me as having his stuff together for being governor.

OTOH, if a former pro wrestler could do it, why not an NBA player? :D
 
I just finished filling out my Florida mail-in ballot (my home state) and I didn't vote for one Democrat. They have just become too extreme in terms of spending. I voted for all fiscally responsible candidates.
 
I cannot vote for any republicans due to their incredibly rabid and radicle ways this time around. The Odonnels, angles, pauls, ... the list goes on. they want to scrap social security, make gay illegal, secede from the union, amend the civil rights protections out of the constitution, ... the list goes on and on.

We can't let the republicans get hold of the economy again. we are still trying to fix what they did the last time they were in power. Eight years of fucked up policies and all they want to do is repeat the same ones that got us into this recession.

I am not happy with the alternate party options at this point. All the elections that I will be voting in are going to be close. I think I will vote for the independent in the massachusetts gov's race.

The republican is a nutcase and Deval Patrick is one of the most invisible governors we have ever had. He just sat under the gold dome and collected a paycheck. So that dem needs to go. I am torn about splitting the vote because the last republican governor we had, Mitt Romney, was a sly fox that drained the middle class of cash through fee increases across the state.

If that guy gets into the office of the presidency, expect some huge changes in the way americans pay for their lives.

All fees will double, expect a national ID card that you will have to pay for, like a drivers licence, but this one would just give you permission to work. It will filter out the illegal immigrants and it will raise funds for border security.

Unfortunately it will be easy for the rich to pay the fees and hard for the poor to do so...

anyway... I plan on supporting the dems intheir fight against the republicans in all the close races, and if the republican is definitely going to lose the election, I will stray into an independent candidate.
 
I hope you guys do vote for Cahill, because he's only going to be siphoning votes from Patrick. The Republican, Charlie Baker, is actually in favor of gay marriage
 
laikaNYC said:
I hope you guys do vote for Cahill, because he's only going to be siphoning votes from Patrick. The Republican, Charlie Baker, is actually in favor of gay marriage
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yeah

thanks to our gay rights activism, you HAVE to be or you wont get close to an elected office anymore.

And thats the way it should be nationwide.

People need to ban together, lawyer up, and protest the fuck out of these looneytoons republican hypocrites.
 
I've been voting since 1976 and always for the Democrats. I have not and will never vote for a Republican. Over my dead body as the saying goes would I vote for a Republican. I wouldn't even vote for the 2 "Liberal" :rolleyes:Republican Senators in my state, Snowe and Collins.
 
Lucky me, I have Jan Brewer and John McCain on the ballot in my state, so it makes the choices easy.

I'm not voting against them because they are Republicans, but because I think they're terrible people. Between lying about beheadings in the desert, avoiding debates to protect her fake-image, and the whole issue with the private prisons, it doesn't matter what her policies are. She's scum. It doesn't even matter if I agreed with her policies (I actually like her changes to the gun laws, and I'm on the fence on that tax increase). I don't like the way she works.

McCain just went crazy. I voted for him 6 years ago because he looked like he had a backbone. He was willing to disagree with his party if it meant standing up for what he believe is right. Apparently I was dead wrong, and I saw it coming around 2006-7. He's just a lapdog who can't even choose his own running mate.
 
In my state, the Republican candidate is blasting the airwaves with anti-Democratic commercials. We have a Democrat in the house who is certain to be re-elected and the Republican is becoming desperate. All his commercials mention our Democrat with Pelosi and Obama, "Obamacare", but nothing at all what he will do for our state.

The interviewers have asked him what are his positions on lots of issues, and we hear crickets..... just the usual national anti-Democratic rhetoric.

I'll be glad when these elections are over so these damn commercials will end.

I'm voting for the party that actually cares about people, not multinational corporations: the Democrats.
 
CowboyBob said:
In my state, the Republican candidate is blasting the airwaves with anti-Democratic commercials. We have a Democrat in the house who is certain to be re-elected and the Republican is becoming desperate. All his commercials mention our Democrat with Pelosi and Obama, "Obamacare", but nothing at all what he will do for our state.

The interviewers have asked him what are his positions on lots of issues, and we hear crickets..... just the usual national anti-Democratic rhetoric.

I'll be glad when these elections are over so these damn commercials will end.

I'm voting for the party that actually cares about people, not multinational corporations: the Democrats.
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and Paid for by the chamber of commerce and its Illegal foreign money to boot.
 
BostonPirate said:
and Paid for by the chamber of commerce and its Illegal foreign money to boot.
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That's all the Republican rags on about...... and they equate voting for the Democrat is a vote for Nancy Pelosi. Doesn't say one thing about what the Republican will do for my state. Nothing. Talk about desperation.
 
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