What political party do you vote with?

What political party do you vote with?

I have voted with at least 2 different parties, over the years, since I could vote. and I am really stuck this year, wondering what political party to vote for. just curious, who votes for what party and why? so Please tell me .

 

There is no button that states *never vote cause its aload of wank!

Do people seriously think there vote counts

 

Maybe it doesnt count, but it is better than not voting, bc if you dont vote you can not complain when some loser gets in office. and You really didnt even try. Isn't it better to try to vote for someone good than to just let it go by. so many places do not have that right to vote, I believe we should use it, to get someone good in office.

 

Votes do count, as long as elections are not manipulated, like happened in the States in 2000, for example.

Like psychedelic g1rl said, if you don't vote you also don't have the right to complain.
The problem is when people keep on voting for parties they know beforehand not to be any good for the country. In Portugal is either the social-democrats (rigth-wing) or the socialists (theoretically left-wing, but continuosly applying right-winged measures) that win, and even though people ALWAYS complain abouth both governments, they keep on voting only on these.
I'm 21 and have only voted for the communists till now (I know, we are like banshees for you americans! ). While I do not agree with some of communism principles, it is still the one party in Portugal that's closer to what I believe in.

 

I vote Democratic because it is currently the only party in the US that has a real chance of beating the Republicans.

 

Do you seriously think they don't?

If you never complain or are unhappy about any decisions the government makes, then fine don't vote.

But it is clear that votes do make a difference. Perhaps it isn't as noticeable unless you look.

 

Most of the time unless you live in a town with 50 people your vote will in fact never count.

Oh, except all those times it did.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Close_elections
including:
Washington gubernatorial election, 2004 124 vote difference out of 2.7 million
Florida in 200 with only 600 votes
Alaska congressional district, 1 vote out of 11,000
ect

So yes, 100 million possible American voters can continue to justify their laziness and apathy out of saying a vote doesn't matter.

 

I'm 17 and can't vote yet but I consider myself a Libertarian and will vote for them once I'm 18.

 

^ If you're 17 and you think communism means mass murdering then you'll lack maturity to vote consciously even when you turn 18.

I don't demand people to vote for the communists. Hell, I don't even demand them to agree with communism, but at least have the decency to know what you're talking about when you talk trash about it. Even though you don't specifically say communists are all mass murderers, you're signature implies that shitty generalization.

FYI: Portugal has a democracy since 1974 thanks to the communists. Prior to that we had a right-wing dictatorship.

 

Because in the early 1990s I got so fed up with the major political parties, I got on the Libertarian bandwagon and have voted Libertarian since then (although I was very, VERY reluctant to vote that way in 2008 - I had to put my nose between a clothespin and vote for Barr back then. But that's ALL I would do for him! The ONLY reason why I did was to try to maintain ballot status for the Libertarians in my home state. I can't tell you how tempted I was to write in Ron Paul's name. While working my poll, I ONLY gave out information for our congressional candidate).

I DO hope we can run better candidates for the future.

 

im a libertarian...

 

Democrat - It seems they show more compassion that republicans or libertarians - Plus they might be able to keep the party of 1950 "the just say no party" out of power. The Republican motto - "legislate the bedroom - not the boardroom"
And Libertarians seem to be "keep the government out of our business" which sounds good - but what about public schools (against) medicare (against) publicly financed healh care (against). It's just not right>

 

I wanted to vote Ron Paul, but he wanted a smaller federal government, and bigger state government.. we cant have that can we? Think of GE, and the others who would lose their military contracts..

I knew he wasnt going to win so I voted Obama.. I think the whole thing is bullshit

 

I try to vote for a person rather than a party. On a national level, Republicans have gone so nuts (the Georgia ones tend to be especially nutty) that I doubt I'll be able to vote for one any time soon.

 

I never base my vote on a party. Depending on who's the current leader, the parties politics tend to change (even if it's slightly).

However, if I lived in the States, I'd more then likely vote Democrat on a regular basis, purely because I disagree with the majority of things Republicans say.

From a Canadian perspective, (federally speaking) I've voted for the Liberals, Conservatives & Green Party.
Never in a million years would I ever think of voting NDP, however with the current Liberal leader being an utter douche and fed-up with the Conservatives, and the NDP is appearing to actually be a more sensible party, I'll consider voting for them the next time around or the Greens again.

 

Joined Ecology party to put Ralph Nader on Ballot. Ralph's not a Hippie but he hates Big Biz. That's a good start for me. Have not voted for a real Liberal since 1972! George was cool. Time passes. Greed does not.

 

the "funky chicken"/Vienna waltz party

 

17 and proud republican.

 

Go on

 

I am exercising my right to not vote.


"If you vote for the lesser of two evils, you vote for evil."