Do you/will vote for a Republican (s) in your local election?

[cboy4]

I'm always torn about this.

Frankly, I don't completely investigate the political affiliations of candidates running for my city council, school board, community college district, etc.

I vote (D) down the line for state and national candidates, but I feel like I need to vote for the person who can best take care of my community .. regardless of whether they're a Republic or a Democrat.

The one Democrat running for city council where I live doesn't have any experience. In fact, the left-leaning Sacramento newspaper isn't endorsing him. So...

I'm just curious how everyone else handles this.

**And I'm talking about local, as in your community. (city council, county commission, board of mayor and alderman, school board, etc.)

EVERYONE BE HONEST :)

[Warpy]

1. There might have been one

but when I looked closely, he'd swapped over to the Democratic side.

He was unopposed but I'd have been tempted to vote for him if he hadn't swapped parties and he was opposed. I'd had dealings with him and knew him to be honest and fair.

[cboy4]

2. I will say if I determine a local candidate is particulary active

in the Republican Party, and is a loud mouth about who they're supporting, I won't vote for them.

[norepubsin08]

3. I always vote for one way down ticket

Republican, that way I can't be accused of being narrow minded.

[lonestarnot]

4. I wouldn't vote for a fucking repiglicon EVER! NOT EVER! I'd write in my Mom first!

[cboy4]

11. Yea, I hear ya....but do you research every single person

running locally to figure out whether they're a Democrat or a Republic?

Every school board candidate, council candidate, etc., etc.?

That's what I'm really curious about. :)

[lonestarnot]

39. Yes!

Yes I do!

[cboy4]

44. Wow, good for you.

:wow:

[lonestarnot]

50. I threw over a 35 year friendship over this 8 year ruination and you don't think I

wouldn't check out every single fucking candidate on the ballot on which I sign for, hugh ugh. I check 'em before I vote 'em!

[Clovis Sangrail]

5. I tend to go with the most qualified

which generally excludes republican politicians.
:evilgrin:

[louis-t]

6. I even check judges and other non-partisans

to see which way they lean. Never, ever again will I vote for a repug.

[cureautismnow]

46. Same here.

I checked the judges to see who appointed them. All but one were placed in higher power by Jeb-Boy. Those were definite no-votes for retention.

[Wickerman]

7. we have some local non-partisan races

so you trust the person who will do best. Small enough community that you pretty know who is who.

In a partisan race I never pull the handle for an R. They may be fine in the office they are in as an R but I don't want to be a part of them ever progressing to higher office - we know how that turns out.

[cboy4]

14. Yes, I agree

:thumbsup:

[barbtries]

8. my true answer wasn't offered here

and that is that i do not vote for republicans. period. in the non partisan races where the democratic party did not endorse a candidate, i left it blank. no republicans, and that has been true for just about all of my life, not just since 2000. well, now that i think about it, shit! i came of age during nixon. lived through reagan and daddy bush. now this. and i watch hearings on c-span. that should cure any liberal from ever voting republican imo.

[cboy4]

19. Interesting. I've done that before also .. leave it blank

if I'm not sure.

[GirlieQ]

9. party affiliation isn't so set in stone in local elections.

That said, anyone who still identifies themself as a R doesn't get my vote this year. Have they no shame?






That, and I like the Democrats. They've held meetings and such, and I don't know anything at all about the R's except that they have had their election signs up about two months longer than they're legally allowed to. I'm bored of having crooks in office.

[NMDemDist2]

10. other

most of the locals were unopposed. I voted for the unopposed Democrats, and 'undervoted' (didn't vote) for the unopposed Repukes.

[Kali]

12. I am voting for one

I even went as far as endorsing him in the local paper but I did it in a way to rip on the upticket pukes.

"Editor

After the utter failure and chaos of the last decade or so, I can not comprehend how any citizen in this country could vote Republican on a national level. However at the local level it has not been quite as bad and I disagree with your endorsement for XXXXXXXXX. In my opinion, XXXXXXXX has been doing, and will continue to do a fine job.

So while incompetent Republicans in the executive branch and elsewhere should be fired, here locally a few deserve to keep their jobs.

[Ghost in the Machine]

13. HELL NO!! I'd gnaw my arms off before I'd EVER pick up a pencil, push a button

or pull a lever to vote for a repiglican.

[bridgit]

15. no

[pitohui]

16. after 2000 no GOPer will get my vote, ever, not ever, never

as it's a GOP district then sometimes there are only GOP choices in that case, i don't vote on that particular office

i've never seen any evidence that voting for a local GOPer and pretending they can do something for my community has ever led to anything good

the fbi is currently investigating a lot of local politicians around here, they're all dirty, and they all had the local GOP/real estate/contractors believing "they was good people"

no they're attracted to the GOP because they steal and they intend to steal, any good done is purely coincidental just as even a stopped watch will be right twice a day

there are bad democrats, sure, but ALL of the GOP is dirty, all of them, to the core

[cboy4]

29. That's a shame what you say about your community.

I live in a very safe, fiscally sound and progressive suburb of just over 100,000 people.

I hate to say it, but the Republican led city council has done a good job.

I'll vote for the Democrat without question if I feel he or she is qualified. But I won't blindly vote (D) on principle and put someone on the council who won't sustain the quality of life I enjoy, if I know a Republic can do a better job.

What would that solve?

[nonconformist]

17. I've been voting for 17 years, every single election, and I've never voted for a Republican

If a Republican is running unopposed, I abstain from that vote.

[eowyn_of_rohan]

18. I vote sometimes for a Green Party candidate

(in addition to Dems) but NEVER a reptilicon

[DemoTex]

20. I know a woman running for city council. She is a social worker.

She is a member of the same church as we are. But she is running as a Republican. She asked me for my vote and I told her this:

"Liz, you are a fine person and I admire your work at United Ministries. However, I have never in my life known a social worker that aligned with the Republican Party. It doesn't make sense. I've tried to justify in my mind voting for you, but I can't. You have chosen to bear the standard of what I now consider the most toxic political party in modern history. Besides, your opponent is well qualified and is not afraid to run as a Democrat. He will get my vote this year. I will vote a straight Democratic ticket."

And I voted a straight Democratic ticket. But she will win.

[lynettebro440]

21. Never voted R in my entire life

and that's a long time...

[cboy4]

30. Do you know that for an absolute fact?

That would mean you've investigated the political affiliation of every single candidate running for a local election.

I'm not doubting you. I'm just curious.

[Omaha Steve]

22. I voted for my state senator Abbey Cornett (R)

She was unopposed. I would still have voted for her. Retired policewoman. Chairman of the Labor Committee. Vote right most of the time. There were 2 R's running for my city council district. I didn't vote on that item. Were new in Bellevue, and didn't know enough. Voted for the Dem in the citywide seat. :-)

[KamaAina]

23. Most local elections here are non-partisan

Board of Ed, City Council, even Mayor. (The mayor's race pits an incumbent who was once approached by the repukes to run for Congress against a challenger who was a repuke state legislator until she bailed on them over abortion. Eurghh.)

[MindPilot]

24. Yes, but it really wasn't my fault.

Between the time I sent in my absentee ballot and now a guy running for school board changed his registration from Democratic to Republican.

[hack89]

25. I will vote Republican at the local level

the quality of candidates can be very uneven at that level and I refuse to vote for an idiot even if he has a D next to his name.

[cboy4]

35. Yea, see I think that's well put and I agree with you. n/t

[hack89]

40. Thank you very much! nt

[fed_up_mother]

26. I would consider voting for a republican for local offices

but not for federal offices. Straight democratic all the way.

[MNDemNY]

27. Note the yellow dog.

[demosincebirth]

28. Just call me a Yellow Dog dem

[Dont_Bogart_the_Pretzel]

31. I will never vote for a Republican. I've voted for a Dino..once..

but never - ever - again.

[cboy4]

36. You voted for Joe LIEberman!?!

:wow:

[Dont_Bogart_the_Pretzel]

38. Hell know!

It was someone local long time ago.

[Myrina]

32. I always vote Dem at the national level but ...

... locally, I vote the candidate not the party ... the Dem machinery here in Central IN is very do-not-much/good ol'boy/ incestuous who are more interested in staying entrenched and keeping Central Indiana in the 19th century than looking out for all citizens/having a progressive thought about anything.

[Orsino]

33. It will be long time before I would risk voting for a Republican.

That corrupt machine will get no love from me until many, many things change.

[TahitiNut]

34. Not this time ... since there just AIN'T any. But there are a few Greens.

I make it VERY clear that I'm an independent liberal. I subscribe to Rawls' description of liberalism. At the same time I'm a fiscal conservative and an economic moderate (Keynesian) ... where an 'economic liberal' (sometimes called a neo-liberal) is, imho, an ass. ('Economic liberalism' is to the right on the Political Compass spectrum.)

Bill Milliken was one of the best Governors of the State of Michigan ... and he's a Republican. (He's also a liberal ... at least in today's terms.)

[goodgd_yall]

37. I vote for every Democrat

except this latest election has a democratic candidate for the state legislature who I cannot in good faith vote for because he's seems like a crackpot. I didn't vote for the Republican though; I left that part of the ballot blank (although I was tempted to write in my own name). That was really unusual for me. If I happen to find out the political party for someone running for a non-partisan office and find out it's Republican, I won't vote for that person. On edit: I will vote Green Party or Peace and Freedom Party (are they still around?) if there isn't a suitable Democratic candidate.

[GOPisEvil]

41. Not just no, but HELL no.

There was one race without a Democrat running. I did not vote for either the Republican or Libertarian.

Edited to say that local elections (held off cycle) are non-partisan, but you know who's who.

[CatholicEdHead]

42. Other, the MN Independence Party may get a consideration this year

But not the current crop of statewide Republicans.

[readmoreoften]

43. Democrat or Left Thereof. Never further to the right.

Democratic Party
Socialist Workers Party
Green Party
THE RENT IS TOO DAMN HIGH! Party (NYC only)

[annabanana]

45. I used to. As the National Repug party got worse and worse, however

I started to see them all as enablers and stopped.

I'm straight ticket now.

[hedgehog]

47. I voteed for John Anderson back in 1980, but that's the closest I've ever come.

I did consider voting for the Republican candidate for Congress because I was thinking that the Republican Party is going to need some moderates to re-build after the election. That thought lasted about 34 seconds!

[rch35]

48. Party line voting is fucking idiotic nt

[psychmommy]

49. our dem freeholder tried to balance the state budget

on the backs of the state workers. he tried some sheisty stuff and i decided that i would vote for a rethug. get that jerk out of there. everybody sniffs up the state unions behinds to get elected and then jerks like him want to screw us. i am sending a one woman message.

[PBS Poll-435]

51. Other - I vote for every Democrat that is on the ballot

However, here in Texas, sometimes a race is between a Republican and a Libertarian.

I usually vote for the Libertarian because you never know when the Republican is going to use his/her election margin as a measure of political capital.

This year I only voted for one Republican: Our county tax-accessor/collector.

[Celeborn Skywalker]

52. Very seldom

do I vote Republican. I will vote locally for the Republican if the Dem is totally incompetent. That is provided that the Repub is not a religious nut or someone who is racist or homophobic.

[cboy4]

53. Yea, I completely agree with you....You said it much better

than I did in my OP in trying to explain.

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