How many of you will vote for at least one Republican on your ballot?

[MSU_Spartans]

Looking over things, there are two down ticket republicans in all that I may vote for. I don't want to get into a huge debate over it, as that time has passed.

The rest of the ticket will be pretty much straight Dem. Do most of you vote straight ticket, or do you give the pubs a shot sometimes?

[CatBO]

1. I wouldn't vote for a Republican if you put a gun to my head n/t

[bobmorr1]

4. Never Will!!

No Repugs!!

[magellan]

14. Or if you paid me no matter how much. n/t

[MadrasT]

2. I didn't vote for a republican today who ran unopposed.

Left the damn thing blank for that office. No way, no how, no repukes.

[krawhitham]

3. Never have, never will

No matter how much money I have

[rucky]

5. I did, accidentally.

The judges' parties weren't listed, and I didn't do my homework. I voted for the female, only to find out she's a whackjob.

Fortunately, I early voted, and hopefully redeemed myself by mentioning the Dem Judge and handing out his fliers on my Obama canvasses.

[RagAss]

6. I'd rather shit in Macy's window !

[lebkuchen]

7. zero repubs

I made the effort to google everyone on the ballot w/o a party affiliation, to check out their endorsements.

[MrScorpio]

8. Unless William Milliken is running for office, it ain't happening

[WindRiverMan]

9. Not I, said the donkey!

[onenote]

10. been voting for 37 years and still have a perfect record

[City of Mills]

11. Only if the dem is Lieberman

Other than that...

[rainbow4321]

12. Never, ever...I picked Libertarian in the races that had no Dem running

Pretty much what the local Dems here do, I guess, cuz the ones I talked to afterwards had done the same.

[WeDidIt]

13. I've never voted for a REpublican in my life

even one who I knew very well in a local race. Told him it wasn't anything against him, but that I could never vote for a REpublican. He got mad. I told him, "get rid of the religious whackos from your party and I'll reconsider."

That was more than twenty years ago.

[No Elephants]

15. Never have; never will.

[Blondiegrrl]

16. I never vote straight ticket.

Sometimes the individual's craziness overrules the party affiliation.

That said, this year I voted for two Republicans and one Mountain Party (WV) candidate. The Republicans were both down ticket -- one a circuit judge and the other a state delegate. Voted Mountain Party for governor because Democratic incumbent Joe Manchin is a douchebag. (Manchin will win easily; that was simply a protest vote on my part.)

[LTR]

33. Same here

Two years ago, in the race for sheriff in my county (which is pretty solid Dem), the Dem was a hardcore AM radio wingnut, while the Republican was very apolitical, felt it had no place in the job, and ran as a Repub because they had an opening.

In 1990, in Minnesota, I vote for Paul Wellstone, a Dem, and Arne Carlson, a Repub, since I didn't like the Dem incumbent (Rudy Perpich). In another election, I vote for a college friend who was running for a local office as a Repub.

From time to time, I do cast votes for some independent and third party candidates. I honestly don't like my choices limited. I did do straight ticket today, since most of the ballot was unopposed Democrats.

[ieoeja]

After impeachment I decided I would only vote for Republicans who disavowed that bullshit.

But it's been long enough, and we had one crazy this year, so I did vote for one Republican today. And for one Green ... against Rahm Emmanuel.

[styersc]

17. Yes I did vote for one Republican, someone I kn ow personally.

Oddly the Dem is a set-up who is really a right wing Repub who is trying to unseat the repub who tends to be moderate to left.

[graywarrior]

18. Not me

But I have to say I am impressed by the number of republicans who told me they're voting for dems for the first time in their life.

[PBS Poll-435]

19. I did

County Tax Assessor/Collector.

Decent guy and he runs an efficient office.

[Number23]

49. I did too

I voted a Repub for surveyor and another for a judge position. I also voted for a Libertarian for County commissioner.

Straight party tickets hold little appeal for me, but that's probably why I'm an independent. :)

[INDIA]

53. Count me in as well. Peter Boulware, former Baltimore Raven...

and Florida State Seminole. Voted at the Leon County Courthouse (Tallahassee, FL) Saw him speak in person, very impressive. Got my vote for State Rep.

Forgot to vote No on 2, which pisses me off. I didn't know what it was last Tuesday when I voted.

[Tatiana]

20. This is the first election in which I didn't vote for a single Republican. n/t

[ScreamingMeemie]

21. We have a problem here in my county in that a lot of R's have registered

as Dems this cycle in order to get in office. It is tricky to sort the good guys from the bad guys.

[AlCzervik]

22. there are no republicans that deserve my vote, period, end of story. They're welcome

to try again in 2010.

[City Lights]

23. No repukes for me.

If there isn't a Democrat to vote for in a given race, I write-in a name. Republicans need to be sent out to pasture, IMO.

[yourguide]

24. No fucking way.

[hogwyld]

25. Never! Even in the down ticket races where the pubbie

is unopposed, I'll usually write in my wife's name!

[Dappleganger]

26. Independent here, usually vote a mixed ticket.

This year the only Republican I voted for was our county representative, as she's done a fabulous job during her past two terms.
Other than that, voted Democrat and Independent.

[Robeson]

27. Nope, nada, zilch, zero, ain't gonna happen.

[riverdale]

28. Do not vote for Republicans

To MSU_Spartan: I live in East Lansing. There are no Republicans on the ballot worthy of your vote.

[MSU_Spartans]

29. Well, I don't live in EL anymore ;)

nt

[whatchamacallit]

30. That's like asking "How many of you will vote for at least one CORRUPT ASSHOLE on your ballot?"

No thanks...

[kenny blankenship]

31. Not in this lifetime.

[liberalMOmama]

32. No Republicans this time around

We have one crazy Dem on the ballot so I voted Libertarian because I just couldn't bring myself to vote for the Republican either.

[carnie_sf]

34. I live in San Francisco

I don't think we even have any republicans on the ballot

[cynatnite]

35. I'll put an icepick through my brain first. n/t

[frogmarch]

36. I'd rather die than vote for a repuke, so NO, not I. nt

[DevonRex]

37. When I was young and stupid I voted for Reagan. But no way in HELL

will I EVER vote for another one. I'm a very proud democrat.

[NightHawk63]

40. Don't feel bad...I vote for FredHorn LegHorn for senator.

That's one vote I wish I could take back. But like you, I was young and stupid.

[DevonRex]

47. Ooh. That's gotta hurt almost as much as my Reagan vote.

[NightHawk63]

38. I'd vote Traficant again before I voted for any rePUKE!!!

It'll be a LONG time before I can ever even consider voting for one of those fucks.

[Johonny]

39. I will never vote Rethug again

I might not always vote for the Dem but I will never vote republican. Their party values and ideas have basically been discredited as non-functioning in the real world. There simply is no point to voting for them. I want to build a society based on ideas that might work or have proven to work, not ideas long discredited as having no value or simply not functioning. It's that simple.

[azmouse]

41. I don't remember ever voting for a Rep at any time in my life.

[SoxFan]

42. Me

The "Democratic" nominee for sheriff is actually a party-switching opportunist who is being pushed by a toxic right wing activist. Screw him.

[Citizen Jane]

43. Yeah, for Public Service Commissioner

There is no Democratic candidate and the libertarian is a whack job.

[CADEMOCRAT7]

44. JAMAIS ! n/t

[formercia]

45. I voted for one

Our family knows her and she's good people. It was for registrar of probate and she was the only one running for it. She was doing a good job, so people let her keep it.

[Hansel]

46. I did. For City Council.

He ran on the Republican ticket for state rep in 2006 so I know he's a Republican. I voted against him then because he ran on an anti-abortion and anti-gay marriage platform (although he believes that being gay is not a choice.) Even so, he is a really great city councilman and those issues aren't addressed at a city level. He stands up for the residents and is more flexible in his reading of city ordinances then the other members and usually gets his way. He's also my mechanic and I've known him since he was a kid. Really nice guy, just not very worldly.

[Dem_4_Life]

48. There is only one local Republican judge here that I vote for but that is it.

[magdalena]

50. I don't vote straight ticket

but I typically only vote dem. There are always many uncontested repukes on my ballot so I have fun doing write-ins. Michelle Obama got my vote for District Attorney today.

[stuntcat]

51. ditto on the Have Never, Will Nevers

I'm prouder than EVER to say I have never voted with them.

[BreweryYardRat]

52. I think I'm going to have to back Repubs for two county offices.

Office 1: I don't like it, but the opposing candidate (not a Dem, she's a no-party-affiliation candidate) hasn't made so much as a single proposal for change. She's done nothing but spout a bunch of vague statements and offered nothing real. The Repub's actually made improvements while he held the office. (I know, I was surprised too.)

Office 2: For an environmental office, it's a choice between a Republican...or a slobbering Libertarian nutcase who claims global warming's a hoax. For once, the Repub's the lesser of two evils.

Straight Dem ticket for everything else, though, plus one write-in against a Repub. (Will not be backing the write-in candidate, however, since he appears to have been a puppet entered into the race at the last minute to keep Dems from voting in the Repub primary -- if there is no opposing-party or write-in candidate, then all eligible voters can vote in party primaries here. I intend to write in one of my former professors.)

[brendan120678]

54. On occasion, I've been known to.

Doesn't happen very often, however.

[gkhouston]

55. I did. There's usually one or two sane Republicans way downballot. Years

ago, when I first started voting, there were a lot more viable (read: not batshit crazy) Republican candidates than there are these days. It'll be interesting to see how the party reshapes itself in the aftermath of the imminent collapse, but as far as I'm concerned, they don't have to rush that recovering-from-the-collapse business. :evilgrin: