Have you ever voted for a Republican for any office?

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No 31
Yes 11


louise ck (milo z), Tuesday, 6 November 2018 21:29 (seven years ago)

no

lie back and think of englund (darraghmac), Tuesday, 6 November 2018 21:29 (seven years ago)

lol

sleeve, Tuesday, 6 November 2018 21:30 (seven years ago)

does Joe Lieberman-via-Al Gore count?

omar little, Tuesday, 6 November 2018 21:31 (seven years ago)

they've been uniformly unrepentant dirtbags my entire life so lol of course not

Οὖτις, Tuesday, 6 November 2018 21:31 (seven years ago)

Just what they were when you voted, we won't hold Elizabeth Warren's past against her.

louise ck (milo z), Tuesday, 6 November 2018 21:32 (seven years ago)

yes

the late great, Tuesday, 6 November 2018 21:43 (seven years ago)

I have never done this.

Trϵϵship, Tuesday, 6 November 2018 21:44 (seven years ago)

I voted for Ileana Ros-Lehtinen in '08.

I didn't vote for Barack Hussein Obama lol

I like queer. You like queer, senator? (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 6 November 2018 21:49 (seven years ago)

i have voted R many times for city council members, district attorneys, school board, etc

in my locality most city and county offices are officially non-partisan so they don't even show the D or R next to their name

have never voted R for any federal representative or executive

have only voted R a few times on the state level, most notably twice for schwarzeneggar

the late great, Tuesday, 6 November 2018 21:52 (seven years ago)

I have not done this. I would have at least considered voting for bloomberg if I had been in nyc a year earlier.

iatee, Tuesday, 6 November 2018 21:56 (seven years ago)

one time cuz it was a guy I personally knew for DA, but I voted "no" because that shouldn't really count. he wasn't running "as a Republican", though I am pretty sure he was (or still is?)

frogbs, Tuesday, 6 November 2018 21:57 (seven years ago)

Not that I know of. Possibly Arlen Spector?

Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 6 November 2018 22:00 (seven years ago)

Yes. I'm so old I remember liberal Republicans.

but not in the last 30+ years

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 6 November 2018 22:00 (seven years ago)

xpost Specter.

Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 6 November 2018 22:00 (seven years ago)

I think the last time I voted for any republican was in 1978. He was the incumbent, had a lot of seniority, was a 'moderate', and his opponent was nothing great. I later decided that my vote had been a mistake and I've never repeated it.

A is for (Aimless), Tuesday, 6 November 2018 22:12 (seven years ago)

Anyone vote republican bc of accelerationism?

Trϵϵship, Tuesday, 6 November 2018 22:13 (seven years ago)

nope

flappy bird, Tuesday, 6 November 2018 22:13 (seven years ago)

no

she carries a torch. two torches, actually (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Tuesday, 6 November 2018 22:15 (seven years ago)

not as far as I recall

clynical repression (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 6 November 2018 22:19 (seven years ago)

trying to work if any ilxors might have ever voted for a conservative locally or something but getting confirmation wouldn't be worth the pain of the thread

ogmor, Tuesday, 6 November 2018 22:21 (seven years ago)

I’ll bet there are closet republicans here

Trϵϵship, Tuesday, 6 November 2018 22:26 (seven years ago)

Yes, as the 2000 GOP primary in Michigan was open that year.

Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Tuesday, 6 November 2018 22:26 (seven years ago)

Yes, as the 2000 GOP primary in Michigan was open that year.

Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Tuesday, 6 November 2018 22:26 (seven years ago)

Yes, as the 2000 GOP primary in Michigan was open that year.

Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Tuesday, 6 November 2018 22:27 (seven years ago)

And you voted twice?

clynical repression (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 6 November 2018 22:27 (seven years ago)

Dammit three times

clynical repression (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 6 November 2018 22:27 (seven years ago)

I voted for Dole in 1996. I didn't see the harm.

grawlix (unperson), Tuesday, 6 November 2018 22:28 (seven years ago)

Ilx poll posts don’t exactly save responses correctly on mobile Safari

Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Tuesday, 6 November 2018 22:28 (seven years ago)

No, never. But aren't most Democrat politians just Diet-Republicans, made from concentrate, when it comes to actual policy? Lack of transparency once elected, cronyism, turning a blind eye to the wrong-doings of members of their own party...it's not exclusive to rethugs.

Cousin Slappy, Tuesday, 6 November 2018 22:30 (seven years ago)

Voted no, but there might have been one or two at the local level long ago. Never in state or federal races.

WmC, Tuesday, 6 November 2018 22:31 (seven years ago)

makes u think xp

i want donald duck to scream into my dick (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 6 November 2018 22:32 (seven years ago)

Well sort of but the republicans are white nationalists now

Trϵϵship, Tuesday, 6 November 2018 22:32 (seven years ago)

I only ever voted for Ed Mili, Corbz and Remain for my sins, never bothered a polling station before 2015 because the overpowering feeling that they were all the same and lets go to the pub instead was winning the day every election. lol but still I voted for ed!

calzino, Tuesday, 6 November 2018 22:33 (seven years ago)

I dont think i voted in 2010 or 2014

Trϵϵship, Tuesday, 6 November 2018 22:34 (seven years ago)

Maybe i did. Probably not though.

Trϵϵship, Tuesday, 6 November 2018 22:35 (seven years ago)

I think the only scenario would have been if both candidates were republican. Otherwise, no.

reggae mike love (polyphonic), Tuesday, 6 November 2018 22:36 (seven years ago)

And the Clinton's weren't playing to that same audience when she was campaiging against Barack in 2008?

"A few years ago, this guy would have been getting us coffee" -Bill Clinton

I will never forget that.

Cousin Slappy, Tuesday, 6 November 2018 22:42 (seven years ago)

xxp
i can add to that sequence of political inertia - I didn't vote in 2010, 05, 01, 97, + 92. Not trying to win a prize here - just saying that all the candidates were shit in this timeline.

calzino, Tuesday, 6 November 2018 22:45 (seven years ago)

Today was the 11th time I've voted for Barbara Lee.

reggae mike love (polyphonic), Tuesday, 6 November 2018 22:48 (seven years ago)

yeah treeship same - 2010 was the first election I could've voted in but I didn't. voted for Obama in 2012 but didn't vote in the 2014 midterms because hey there's gonna be a Dem in power forever who cares about the local shit blah blah blah... so dumb. that is how Larry Hogan got elected. 2016 was the first primary I voted in and today was my first midterm. Damn

flappy bird, Tuesday, 6 November 2018 22:48 (seven years ago)

the first time i voted was in 08, for obama when i was 19. i was kind of soured to the process after seeing 1.) the wars continue and 2.) no accountability for the banks after the financial crisis. i then stopped paying attention because i didn't think i was smart enough to come up with coherent positions on how to change the things that horrified me about american society and also america's role in the world. and then 2016 happened and i aged 30 years in 12 months.

Trϵϵship, Tuesday, 6 November 2018 22:58 (seven years ago)

nope, none. have voted since 2004 though missed a couple midterms in there

ciderpress, Tuesday, 6 November 2018 23:06 (seven years ago)

i've voted liberal democrat which is worse in some ways

𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 6 November 2018 23:11 (seven years ago)

I don’t know much about olde england but i doubt it

Trϵϵship, Tuesday, 6 November 2018 23:12 (seven years ago)

Voted for Jim Jeffords for VT senate in 2000, him being called "not a real Republican" by those who cared about such things. Then he declared himself an independent and started caucusing with Democrats the following year, proving those people right.

eatandoph (Neue Jesse Schule), Tuesday, 6 November 2018 23:15 (seven years ago)

This thread made me think my life was better before I started voting

Trϵϵship, Tuesday, 6 November 2018 23:32 (seven years ago)

correlation is not causation

I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Tuesday, 6 November 2018 23:48 (seven years ago)

I blame treeship for everything

iatee, Tuesday, 6 November 2018 23:49 (seven years ago)

I voted in a state Republican primary once because I didn’t care who won on the Dem side and wanted a specific solar-friendly candidate for energy commissioner on the GOP side to beat out the other hacks in the primary

so if that counts, then yes

crüt, Tuesday, 6 November 2018 23:53 (seven years ago)

Voted for the Republican candidate for DC Mayor once. (In any other jurisdiction she would have been a Democrat, and in any other jurisdiction the Democratic candidate would have been labeled a carpetbagger.)

Accattony! Accattoni! Accattoné! (j.lu), Tuesday, 6 November 2018 23:53 (seven years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

System, Wednesday, 7 November 2018 00:01 (seven years ago)

might have voted for some republican judges, it's a pain to figure out their party affiliations

j., Wednesday, 7 November 2018 00:24 (seven years ago)

11 of you please report to the slicey lad

wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Wednesday, 7 November 2018 00:25 (seven years ago)

statute of limitations

A is for (Aimless), Wednesday, 7 November 2018 00:27 (seven years ago)

nope
i have not

weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Wednesday, 7 November 2018 00:27 (seven years ago)

11!

Trϵϵship, Wednesday, 7 November 2018 00:29 (seven years ago)

Never, ever, ever.

suzy, Wednesday, 7 November 2018 00:29 (seven years ago)

Never. Everyone who identifies as a republican has always had a fatal flaw.

Yerac, Wednesday, 7 November 2018 00:51 (seven years ago)

In 2014 I may have filled in the bubble for the incumbent King County Prosecuting Attorney, who was then identified on the ballot as a Republican and running unopposed.

I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Wednesday, 7 November 2018 01:04 (seven years ago)

The office is now nominally non-partisan and the man himself now says he's a Democrat (though there's no party registration in WA anyway)

I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Wednesday, 7 November 2018 01:04 (seven years ago)

I didn't vote in this poll in time though sorry

I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Wednesday, 7 November 2018 01:04 (seven years ago)

nope, never ever. and i've voted in five states (not at once) in every midterm and municipal election.

affects breves telnet (Gummy Gummy), Wednesday, 7 November 2018 09:08 (seven years ago)

just saying that all the candidates were shit in this timeline.

idk if you were lumped with a 2-party system, but voting for the least worst is voting against the worst, no matter how galling it is

Sing The Mighty Beat (sic), Wednesday, 7 November 2018 09:48 (seven years ago)

I’ve never voted for a capital-R American Republican and almost certainly never will. Have voted for dozens, possibly hundreds of republicans though.

Sing The Mighty Beat (sic), Wednesday, 7 November 2018 09:49 (seven years ago)

i voted for a liberal Republican for Lt. Gov. against shitbag Gavin Newsom a few years ago.

sarahell, Wednesday, 7 November 2018 15:55 (seven years ago)

Never voted for a Republican and wouldn't even consider it unless there were some '64-esque polar shift in the party's ethos. I've voted a straight Dem ticket in every election but my first (voted for Perot, perhaps a dece argument against letting teenagers vote).

Ham Beats All Meat! (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 7 November 2018 16:05 (seven years ago)

I voted for a Republican for City Auditor a few years ago as well

sarahell, Wednesday, 7 November 2018 16:13 (seven years ago)

NB, my grandma was a GOP elected official, so I might've voted for her had the circumstances to do so arisen. I also have a bigwig Whig/old-school Republican much further up the ol' family tree. I'd go back and vote for a Whig, sure, why not.

Ham Beats All Meat! (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 7 November 2018 16:21 (seven years ago)

p sure i probably did this a few times in my first couple elections

(The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Wednesday, 7 November 2018 19:39 (seven years ago)

OL, there might be some of those 19th century GOPs in the higher branches of my family tree, too (and my grandmother’s grandfather was named after Henry Clay).

suzy, Wednesday, 7 November 2018 19:47 (seven years ago)

I share common ancestry with the Websters on my other grandma's side (including I think Webster Papadopoulos, but that is as-yet unconfirmed).

Ham Beats All Meat! (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 7 November 2018 20:06 (seven years ago)


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