Reply #5: I have voted for republicans at the state level, and will again. [View All]

[Political Heretic]

Before you judge, Idaho is a strange state.

Right now I live in District 19, which means I have the privilege of voting for the states one and only openly gay legislator who is also - as you might have suspected - a democratic. So the pressure's off for a while.

But there are republicans in some districts that we, as community organizers and actives, urge people to support. They are good on our issues. Many times no democratic is running against them, BUT in our state you can sometimes have crazies from other parties running for their seat -- sometimes the republican is the lesser of two evils.

You can't take a "scorched earth" policy of zero-tolerance for republicans in this state. You have to find ones you can work with and support them against the crazy extremists that are always trying to unseat them.