QOTW - Politics

[Vanquisher]

Are you Socially Liberal or Conservative?

Are you Fiscally Liberal or Conservative?

Do you vote in the general election/primaries?

Have you ever campaigned for someone?

What is the most important singular issue to you when voting, if you have one?

[Curegirl]

Are you Socially Liberal or Conservative? Liberal

Are you Fiscally Liberal or Conservative? Middle of the road

Do you vote in the general election/primaries? Usually

Have you ever campaigned for someone? Yes, and I never want to associate with people in politics again

What is the most important singular issue to you when voting, if you have one? Everything's kind of lumped together for me so I can't really say. I think it's important for everyone to have a voice and to have the ability to voice their concerns, but I've become pretty cynical about politics and the government.

[WolfpackWife]

Are you Socially Liberal or Conservative? Liberal

Are you Fiscally Liberal or Conservative? Conservative

Do you vote in the general election/primaries? Sometimes

Have you ever campaigned for someone? No

What is the most important singular issue to you when voting, if you have one? In the past few years, it has been marriage equality, which some people have found odd being that I am straight. I think my passionate opinion about marriage equality touches on a lot of things that bug me (religious influence in government, government having their say in people's private lives, ridiculous and poorly formed arguments i.e. "if two men can get married, what's to stop someone from marrying their dog??", etc) so I have been really drawn to that cause. It baffles me that people feel so strongly about something that affects them either very, very little, or not at all.

[GrayMatterWife]

Replies in CAPS

Are you Socially Liberal or Conservative? LIBERTARIAN. JUST LEAVE ME ALONE. LET ME RAISE MY CHILDREN IN PEACE. STOP SHOVING YOUR VIEWPOINT DOWN MY THROAT. EXCEPT ON ABORTION. I GUESS BECAUSE I AM PRO-LIFE, PEOPLE SEE THAT AS "CONSERVATIVE." PERSONALLY, I SEE THAT AS RADICALLY LIBERAL.

Are you Fiscally Liberal or Conservative? CONSERVATIVE

Do you vote in the general election/primaries? YES

Have you ever campaigned for someone? YES

What is the most important singular issue to you when voting, if you have one?

TOTALLY DEPENDS ON THE ELECTION. I DON'T CARE IF THE SCHOOL BOARD MEMBERS DISLIKE THE FED POLICY, FOR EXAMPLE. I TAKE EACH ELECTION AND ITS ISSUES.

[Vanquisher]

Are you Socially Liberal or Conservative?

Liberal

Are you Fiscally Liberal or Conservative?

Moderate

Do you vote in the general election/primaries?

Yes

Have you ever campaigned for someone?

No

What is the most important singular issue to you when voting, if you have one?

Socially liberal. Marriage equality, separation of church and state.

[alotofyarn]

Are you Socially Liberal or Conservative? Moderate Conservative

Are you Fiscally Liberal or Conservative? Conservative

Do you vote in the general election/primaries? Usually

Have you ever campaigned for someone? No

What is the most important singular issue to you when voting, if you have one? Don't really have one.

[MsSassyBaskets]

Are you Socially Liberal or Conservative?
Liberal

Are you Fiscally Liberal or Conservative?
Liberal to Socialist

Do you vote in the general election/primaries?
Yes, especially before we moved. I love Minnesota politics and knew a number of local and state candidates.

Have you ever campaigned for someone?
Yes

What is the most important singular issue to you when voting, if you have one?
Extremity of progressive values x electability. I'm not a single issue voter.

[scarlett09]

Are you Socially Liberal or Conservative? Liberal.

Are you Fiscally Liberal or Conservative? Somewhere in the middle.

Do you vote in the general election/primaries? Yes, although I may have forgotten about the last primary. Oops.

Have you ever campaigned for someone? Yes, local Congressional/freeholder race when I was in HS. Back when I wanted to work in politics and I was dating the freeholder candidate's nephew. Made phone calls on Election Day, IIRC.

What is the most important singular issue to you when voting, if you have one? Depends upon the election. I do not vote along party lines but based on where the candidates stand on the issues.


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[bokelley]

Are you Socially Liberal or Conservative?
Liberal

Are you Fiscally Liberal or Conservative?
Moderate

Do you vote in the general election/primaries?
Yes

Have you ever campaigned for someone?
Yes.

What is the most important singular issue to you when voting, if you have one?
Currently it is women's health in politics. Mostly religious influence over policy making. (Marriage equality, birth control, abortion). All the ones that make people go crazy talking about.

[Flynn]

Are you Socially Liberal or Conservative?
Liberal

Are you Fiscally Liberal or Conservative?
Moderate

Do you vote in the general election/primaries?
Yes

Have you ever campaigned for someone?
No

What is the most important singular issue to you when voting, if you have one?

EDUCATION (it's sooo screwed up) / separation of church and state / women's health in politics

Random Story............ (Disclaimer.... flip Democrat for Republican if you want. My point was how different geographic areas feel STRONGLY about their party and you can find yourself in the minority depending on where you live. I find it fascinating. This election is going to be HEATED! )

I recently became aware while chatting with a newer friend at a pool that we believed similarity when it came to the upcoming election. She asked me a few questions and I carefully answered. Eventually she laughed and leaned closer to my ear and whispered, "I'm a Democrat too." I furrowed my brow and laughed a little and asked her if "Democrat" was a bad word. She said, "In YOUR neighborhood it is!" She said that I wasn't here last election (we were a new family just figuring things out) and things can get very heated. She cautioned me to be careful when answering questions. Apparently, a VAST majority of people we socialize with are on the opposite end of the spectrum and are very vocal about it.

Hmmmmm. I will obviously make my own mind up but I have had a few clues lately that leads me to believe she might be right. I love that I can have what I consider a close friendship with a few individuals who believe almost systematically the opposite of what I believe politically!

[Sheherezade]

I once had a mom tell me she wouldn't let her kid hang around with families that vote Democratic...and we had one friend that stopped hanging out here when the parents found out we voted Obama. It can be very, very touchy. I try not to align myself with either party for exactly that reason. Where we live is very "purple" now, but it has been historically Republican, and before that (like turn of the century) more liberal.

Politics fascinate me. I'm very involved - attending all local government meetings and voting in every election. I think labels are bad though because no one truly subscribes in whole to one party's set of values. Differences and collaboration were supposed to be our strength. These days we vilify people that think differently for us. It makes me sad.


Angie

[diggitydot]

I'm wildly progressive, politically. Financially, I'm pretty moderate. I vote regularly, haven't volunteered for campaigns, and I don't have a single issue.

I live in a longtime GOP controlled area. It's not really a big deal. The PNW is an area where you kind of need to be cool with both hippies and hillbillies because you can't alway tell one from the other.

[houseelf]

I'm going to decline to answer the majority of the questions with just stating that I'm fairly moderate overall. I'm a former college Republican but probably lean slightly liberal by today's standards. (There is an interesting piece that I read recently that Reagan would have been too moderate by today's Republican standards). IMvHO, there are a few people that the Republican party needs to publicly excommunicate because it makes the GOP look like it has lost its damn mind. Quit pandering to the extremists. Most of America is living in the middle 80%. Get real. I'd love to come "home" to the Republican party if it regroups and represents the silent middle majority again.

Long story short, I'm a female swing voter living in Ohio....and I vote. Always. I'm definitely looking for moderates who can play nice, work across the aisle, and get the job done.

I think the biggest issue for me right now is banking/finance reform and this bizarre notion that corporations are people and have rights of speech and representation equal to an individual. This is dangerous. I'm 100% for capitalism. I'm against unchecked capitalism. I don't believe in income equality but income mobility is very important to me.

TMI? probably.

[Pollyanna]

I am conservative in all ways, I vote in every election but have never had the time to campaign for anyone. I vote on life, I believe it is the single issue that has the potential to bring about peace. Never have truer words been spoken than those of Mother Teresa:

"But I feel that the greatest destroyer of peace today is abortion, because it is a war against the child, a direct killing of the innocent child, murder by the mother herself. And if we accept that a mother can kill even her own child, how can we tell other people not to kill one another? How do we persuade a woman not to have an abortion? As always, we must persuade her with love and we remind ourselves that love means to be willing to give until it hurts. Jesus gave even His life to love us. So, the mother who is thinking of abortion, should be helped to love, that is, to give until it hurts her plans, or her free time, to respect the life of her child. The father of that child, whoever he is, must also give until it hurts.

By abortion, the mother does not learn to love, but kills even her own child to solve her problems. And, by abortion, that father is told that he does not have to take any responsibility at all for the child he has brought into the world. The father is likely to put other women into the same trouble. So abortion just leads to more abortion. Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching its people to love, but to use any violence to get what they want. This is why the greatest destroyer of love and peace is abortion.

Many people are very, very concerned with the children of India, with the children of Africa where quite a few die of hunger, and so on. Many people are also concerned about all the violence in this great country of the United States. These concerns are very good. But often these same people are not concerned with the millions who are being killed by the deliberate decision of their own mothers. And this is what is the greatest destroyer of peace today — abortion which brings people to such blindness."

Read the full text of her speech at the National Prayer breakfast in 1994: http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/resources/abortion/catholic-teaching/blessed-mother-teresa-on-abortion/

[PrincessFiona]

Are you Socially Liberal or Conservative?

Are you Fiscally Liberal or Conservative?

Do you vote in the general election/primaries?

Have you ever campaigned for someone?

What is the most important singular issue to you when voting, if you have one?

I used to be very politically active and interested. Now I would describe myself as being apathetic. Democratic? Don't care. Republican? Don't care. It's always the same arguments/games/mud-slinging. I have no faith in our government or political system. I no longer watch tv or read most news sites except for brief overviews on world news. I figure I can let people fight it out over the same shit without having to care anymore.

I vote in general elections. This is the only time that I pay somewhat attention to the issues anymore.

Kris