86 year old family member, life long Republican ..

[Miigwech]

She will not be voting for the first time in her life. She is not requesting an absentee ballot - she will be away from home during Nov. elections - told me in that she is not voting, period! Bad for down ballot votes, but she hates Trump and can't vote for Hillary, so she is just not voting. WOW! Does not even want to talk about it. I am sure that many of her Republican friends in her retirement community are feeling the same way, that this is not their Republican Party. (she has told me so)

[sarcasmo]

1. Had lunch last week with 2 Republicans who will be voting Johnson.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

7. "Had lunch last week with 2 Republicans who will be voting Johnson."

Trump slogan: Why vote for a Johnson when you can have a REAL dick?

[uppityperson]

2. Please remind people there are many more races than the presidency and they don't have to vote

for any race if they don't want to. If there is a school bond they support, they can just vote for that and leave everything else blank, for instance.

[Miigwech]

3. She just will not vote,

this time, period! She is sickened by Trump so much so that she is not going to vote, for the first time in her life. She worked for the Republican party all through her life. She is very healthy for her age so I expect her to vote again in the future, not just now, with Trump as leader of the GOP.

[struggle4progress]

5. I think it's just fine if Republicans don't want to vote

Bunches of them have tried for years to dissuade me from voting

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

12. I know. People who don't vote on purpose just irritate me.

[Warren DeMontague]

13. If hardcore Republicans stay home

...

[Midnight Writer]

4. Nephew-in-law says he is embarrassed by Trump and Repub Party, but will still vote Trump

I shit you not. This guy is forty years old from old school Main Street Republican family, and we are sitting together at a family function, and he tells me this. I ask him why.

He tells me he has never missed a vote in any election, and he has always voted straight Republican, and he will continue to do this until he dies.

Alrighty, then.

For the record, my niece (his wife) is a hard nosed liberal Democrat. She says she will keep working on him.

[awoke_in_2003]

6. On Nov 8

Obama is coming for the guns. Pass the word.

[madamesilverspurs]

8. Mom is 97 this month,

a lifelong and active Republican until four or five years ago. Her vote for Obama was the first time she had ever voted for a Democrat for president, but she retained her membership in the GOP in hopes of having productive conversation with other Republicans. But the party's continuing downward moral slide, along with a determined party-wide unwillingness to listen, finally compelled her to withdraw her membership after more than 70 years. She's now an independent, but looks forward to voting for Hillary. She's rather amazed by her lifetime being bookended by her being born at the moment when women first gained the right to vote and her closing years seeing the first African American President and the first woman President. She just shakes her head at what the GOP has become, but refuses to let the bitterness of that disappointment to keep her from voting.

[Chicago1980]

11. Give your mom a hug and a kiss and just remind her that life...

is a true muthafucker'!!!

All we can all do is to keep living to become a part of history that is said life...

This is coming from a mid-thirties black dude who never thought he'd see an African-American as president.

[Miigwech]

14. Good on her

Your Mom is on the right side of history. But, for some elderly folks it is so hard to change. That is why some are just not going to vote .... no Republican they can support. At least they have the character to not be voting for Trump, unlike top Republicans who put party before country.

[rusty quoin]

9. I actually feel bad for her.

She is part of a generation fooled by propaganda. The pro FDR kids and adults knew what was real.

I cannot think of it as a triumph, but as a sad result of being fooled for too long.

[Hugin]

10. Relax... They'll vote for her, anyway.

Probably, several times. It's what they do.