Poll: Do you vote the same party as your parents did?

[MosMom]

Just a little poll that I was curious about. Wondering how many out there vote along the same lines as their parents. I don't at all. My parents and most of my family are republicans and my dad will be voting for Bush. I'm pretty much the polar opposite. Just wondering about others...

 

[katerkat]

Well... I don't agree with your poll choices. I don't vote the way I do "because I was raised with their beliefs so it makes sense I vote the same." I vote the way I do because of my own personal life experiences. It happens to be the same as my parents (nationally - I don't think they'd ever vote Libertarian!)

BUT... I'm a conservative Libertarian, my little sister is a moderate Republican and my older sister is a liberal Democrat. All raised in the same house within four years of each other! So I don't think being raised with their beliefs worked on all of us.

 

[preshi]

My parents are Repubs. so is DH and so are the IL's LOL

I am the only defector.

 

[ZachnElli]

I don't vote at all like my parents. Dh's parents are the non-voting crowd. I really wonder if they have ever voted. Complete opposite of my parents who vote at every election, even the tiny ones.

 

[shortbun]

Nothing fits me in your poll. My parents raised me with the
moral obligation to vote. We watched presidential nominating
conventions together. I was in on all their "discussions" with
friends over politics-and there were many, one famous one
where my mother stood on a chair. lol! Watching and listening,
I became a liberal by age, maybe 15. My mother was a John
Birch republican at that time and my Dad had defected from the
Democratic Party. It was 1969. By 1970, we were "discussing"
politics within our own family and I was doing the protest circuit-
I missed my ride to Kent State. This year, for the first time in my
life, my mother is voting with me because she recognizes the
'little prince" in the president and would rather he not be POTUS
anymore. She has even considered attending a march in Washinton. I'm amazed and proud. We're not talking to Dad
about politics these days; he's happy to sit in the office every
afternoon and count his money after he takes his walk and plays cards with "the boys." We're hoping he forgets to vote. It's
possible but not likely, he often forgets the names of his friends.

 

[N.Bailey]

Nope:

Parents were Democrats and we vote Republican. Inlaws are Republican though.

 

[barbeml]

Your poll choices don't cover my situation.

My parents are divorced. Dad comes from a staunchly Republican family, but he was a Democrat for many years (he was a teacher and a lobbyist for the teachers union). When he changed jobs and began to represent big businesses, he became a Republican. Sadly, over the years he has become an extremist who parrots all the hate speech he hears from right wing extremists. (The list of groups he considers inferior or "crazy" lengthens every day). He now lives happily in a "gated community" where the "undesirables" are not welcome.

Mom is a liberal Democrat, daughter of a laborer who served heroically in WW II. She is as far to the left as Dad is to the right! Can't discuss moderation with Mom, she is all emotion.

I am a Democrat and always will be, but more moderate than Mom.

 

[Dizzy-Disney4]

NO choice for me available. My parents would never discuss politics with us when we were growing up. They were sure to show us it was our responsibility to vote, but they felt that their political views were their own and not up for discussion with anyone. As a matter of fact they would still be insulted and tell me it was none of my business who they are voting for.

 

[Robinrs]

You need WAY more choices, lol.

I vote the way I do because of the way politics affect my life, not because of the way I was raised or any ideology. My Mom was highly active, and I became the same way, but in very different ways.

 

[BKtoo]

I also didn't answer the poll because nothing seemed to fit me. My father was for all the years I lived in my parent's household, was a Republican. My mother never much discussed politics; I think she had different beliefs than my father. My brother was, to use my father's words, a bleeding heart liberal. I was more conservative, and voted (and felt) Republican for most of my life. During the Clinton years, I became really disenchanted with the Republican party and voted for him the second time around (but not the first time). I was originally a registered Republican, but then changed to Independent, which I still am. I'm considering becoming a registered Democrat, however. During my father's decline and subsequent death, my mother became more and more liberal, and is definitely now a Democrat. My brother, who became very religious, is now a Republican, I think mostly because of the issues of abortion and gay rights, although those issues aside, he's still pretty liberal socially. I think he is very conflicted this election year, because it is the first year where he seems very silent about the election, which is never, never, how he has been. I guess the value we most came away with in our family regarding politics is that they are important, and are worth our serious consideration, and that we have an absolute duty to vote and let our voices be heard.

Oh yes--one more thing. LOL This is Bedknobbery2. I had to create a new screenname because in updating my old email address, I seem to have locked myself out of my previous name, which will hopefully be rectified soon.

 

[Saffron]

I grew up in the Vietnam War era. My father is a Korean War veteran and my brother is a Vietnam War veteran. I grew up in a household that reminds me exactly of the show "All in the Family"!

While my parents have the biggest hearts in the world, my father would often chant, "Better dead than red", and all other kinds of kookoo stuff, because he believes that anything the USA government did or does is the right thing, no matter what. My mother was raised to believe a woman goes along with what your husband wishes. So ... she converted from Catholic to Protestant (Baptist), registered Republican and stood behind her man, no matter what kookoo things he said, because he was her husband. Even if she wanted to register Democrat she wouldn't have, it just wasn't how she was raised and what she believed. Doesn't that sound like "All in the Family"? I swear, my dad is Archie, my mom is Edith and I am definitely Gloria! Like Edith, my mom had a mind and will of her own, she just didn't like to be as vocal about it as I did. One day my mom loaded my brother and myself onto a bus and took us down to Washington DC to a Vietnam War protest, all by herself, all without my father! YAY MOM! I believe that was the day my eyes were opened to a world that has more opinions and options than those opposed on the family by the man/father/husband of the house. At that young age, I started to think independently when it came to things that affected more than just my family.

My mother is proud to be Republican and I never ask her who she votes for, ever. She's one of those people who feels her vote is nobody else's business. But I do know for a fact and she's very proud that she refuses and will NOT vote for Bush this time around, nor did she last time around!

Both my brothers and their families, my father's family and my mother's family are staunch conservative Republicans! And then there's me, the lone liberal Democrat. And I believe it's because my mom taught me to follow my heart and do what I believe, not what someone tells me I should believe. I believe she raised me to be who I am, so that I would never live in the shadow of unfullfilled dreams or in the shadow of a man.

She says I'm just bullheaded and do things just to be different.

 

[Carl]

The way the question was phrased, does not really describe the situation. My parents always used to vote Democratic because of the belief that that party was for the common man. Now, it doesn't necessarily apply. We are at the points in our lives that we are heavily taxed and don't want to look forward to any more tax increases - thus we vote Republican.

 

[Dan Murphy]

My parents voted for candidates of both parties over the years, that is what I have also done. I have voted many times either party, and in each election, vote for probably an equal number of the various offices from both. So no vote here on this poll, no choice for me.

 

[Laura]

I'm not influenced by my father's vote. We each vote our own way and find out who each other voted for in the election afterwards. We talk about why we vote certain ways. It's interesting. Sometimes we vote for the same person, sometimes not. I think we're both voting for Kerry this year, but I don't know which way he's going for certain.

My mom died before I cast my first vote, but I think she was a pretty staunch Democrat. She loved Jerry Brown.

 

[Pooh Girl 71]

I can't vote either.

My dad is all over the place. He votes for whomever he likes. Mom was a Democrat while I was growing up. She became a Republican in later years.

I am a bleeding heart liberal and proud of it.

 

[snoopy]

Well I guess I'll be the first to say that I CAN vote for one of your choices. I come from a long line of Yellow Dog Democrats and they have definately influenced how I vote.

 

[helenabear]

Neither of my parents were affliated with a party (that I am aware of) so you could say that I do vote the same way. I pick the person that I think is best and do not care which party they belong to. I have voted for both parties in my life and possibly will be that way for many years to come.

 

[Pop Daddy]

My parents where Democrates, but when I was a kid I thoguht it was neat on how big Nixons jaws where, so i liked him. The started listening and found out I was a Republican.


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[mtemm]

didn't vote because my parents don't belong to the same party as each other.

 

[jrydberg]

Hard to do since my parents don't belong to the same party.