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What Party?

Which Party

  • Liberterian

    Votes: 113 38.7%

  • Republican

    Votes: 113 38.7%

  • Democrat

    Votes: 21 7.2%

  • Green

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Constitution

    Votes: 22 7.5%

  • Communist

    Votes: 1 0.3%

  • Socialist (non-Communist)

    Votes: 2 0.7%

  • Other

    Votes: 13 4.5%

  • Apatheritc (Don't Vote)

    Votes: 7 2.4%
  • Total voters
    292
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I was wondering, what party are most of the folks here members of? I noticed that there was a lot of variation, and I found that surprising.

If you aren't a member of a party, select the one that you believe that you are most in line with (ideology wise) or the one whose candidates you vote for most of the time. Same can be if you don't vote for the party you are a member of.
 
I vote Libertarian. But I'm registered as a Republican just on the off chance that in the event the Republicans ever run a conservative candidate, I can vote for him in the primary.
 
I would vote for "Apatheritc (Don't Vote)" but I just don't care:neener:

Actually, I am registered as a Republican but I can't stand all this NEO-Con BS and I have been leaning more and more toward the Libertarians. Now if only they could put up a respectible candidate in my district.
 
The Libertarians could clean up if they'd just organize, but organization does not seem to be one of their strong suits.

This year we have a solid Libertarian running for governor of Minnesota. I would be excited, except that I support our current Republican governor and think he's doing a fine job. I'm afraid that I'm going to have to abandon a good Libertarian candidate in order to vote for a good Republican.
 
If you aren't a member of a party, select the one that you believe that you are most in line with (ideology wise) or the one whose candidates you vote for most of the time.
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Ideology-wise, I am most in line with the Libertarian party, but I vote Republican.

Kind of like enjoying the looks of girls in magazines but marrying a 3-dimensional girl with real parts and no airbrushing.:)
 
Libertarians, sorry I spelled your party name wrong. Honest error. I often misspell words.

I am a Republican, but I am very likely going to be voting for some Libertarians this November, unless Rell learns to clean up her act. Didn't care much for Rowland either. The two of them hated guns, and seem to be heading further left (and corrupting various freedoms) on a daily basis.
 
Though I'm a member, I think it's clear that "Libertarian Party" is an oxymoron.

Libertarians are in favor of the free market and free association. We believe that a bunch of free individuals, acting voluntarily in their own interests, forming groups and teams to accomplish common goals, are more effective, far more desirable, and just plain superior, to top-down, monolithic, centrally-planned government. We don't believe in coercing people to sacrifice their own freedom for "the good of the group", or in collectivist thinking, really in any way.

I'm not really seeing how any of this is compatible with forming a viable political party, which is an institution that is becoming outdated. Political parties themselves are as much the enemies of individual freedom, personal responsibility and personal morality as governments are.

I highly recommend Glenn Reynolds' new book An Army of Davids. That will help explain what I'm trying to say, even though it scarcely mentions political parties at all.

Part of the change we may need, to get to the next level of freedom, is the demise of parties as we know them, not the creation of another one.
 
Although I vote in almost every election, I've never affilitated with a single party. I find plenty of things to dislike about all of them. I used to lean Republican, but the current adminstration has cured me of that. If they're republicans, then I don't want to be associated.

I'm beginning to think that political gridlock might be the best long-term solution.
 
"know something" party

Tomorrow, if possible, I will switch my registration from Rep. to Libertarian.
I had done so once before; from Independent to Rep., as it is called here in "Gaming" PA -just to vote in the primaries, for that "conservative," but I assume that the political technologists; what do you call them, will respond to a large voting population that is out there for the appeal. Especially in these times where the elections are in dead heat.

I would encourage anyone; regardless of their registraion, either Dem. or Rep. to do the same, as I believe that since both parties have been patronising the voters and not following democratic/ republic principles, that the time for an alternative is now at hand and is now viable.
 
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I would be a Libertarian if they could be taken as a serious contender in a national political race. Right now they just have ideas and the luxury of never having to implement any policies based on them, which is the hard part of governing.
 
Part of the change we may need, to get to the next level of freedom, is the demise of parties as we know them, not the creation of another one.
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You,sir,are a genius! My biggest problem with a two-party system is that basically your vote only matters for two candidates! Sadly,voting for a third party only takes a vote away from the lesser of two evils. Which is why I hold to Libertarian principals,but feel for the sake of damage control that I should vote Republican.

And to anyone who might say voting doesn't matter: a referendum to build a bunch more schools and raise property taxes just passed in my township by 59 votes. :fire:
 
Yes it is. They're both fundamentally flawed because they share the same fallacies about basic human nature, but Communism is a particular branch of socialism, like Lutheranism is a particular branch of Chrisianity.
 
Libertarian here too. I have swayed back and forth from Republican to Libertarian in my vote, but the fact remains: I'm a conservative. ALL libertarians are conservative, whether they know it or not (liberty is a conservative concept, after all). But these days, fewer and fewer Republicans are.

Take care,
Phil
 
L when I can, R when I have to, and in primaries. D. when the RINO is tooooo abhorent (this condition occurs a lot in Illinois).

My own politics are complex.
 
ALL libertarians are conservative, whether they know it or not
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Sort of. The crux of libertarian is socially liberally, financially conservative to me. Don't tell me what to do with my life and don't take more of my money than is actually efficient and necessary.
 
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