Have you ever voted for a Republican for any office?

no

lol

does Joe Lieberman-via-Al Gore count?

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

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

yes

I have never done this.

I voted for Ileana Ros-Lehtinen in '08.

I didn't vote for Barack Hussein Obama lol

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

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

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?)

Not that I know of. Possibly Arlen Spector?

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

but not in the last 30+ years

xpost Specter.

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.

Anyone vote republican bc of accelerationism?

nope

no

not as far as I recall

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

I’ll bet there are closet republicans here

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

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

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

And you voted twice?

Dammit three times

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

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

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.

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

makes u think xp

Well sort of but the republicans are white nationalists now

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!

I dont think i voted in 2010 or 2014

Maybe i did. Probably not though.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

correlation is not causation

I blame treeship for everything

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

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.)

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

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

11 of you please report to the slicey lad

statute of limitations

nope
i have not

11!

Never, ever, ever.

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

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.

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 didn't vote in this poll in time though sorry

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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).

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