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Re: How many split ticket voters do we have here? - (vikm) - 10-30-2008
Silencio wrote:
... the only Republican I can recall voting for was Arnold in the last gubernatorial election
We'll forgive you ;-)
Re: How many split ticket voters do we have here? - MacGurl - 10-30-2008
I tend to split my votes as I see fit, but I think this time I did end up voting all democrat.
Kathy
Re: How many split ticket voters do we have here? - Silencio - 10-30-2008
(vikm) wrote:
[quote=Silencio]
... the only Republican I can recall voting for was Arnold in the last gubernatorial election
We'll forgive you ;-)
Yeah, that obviously worked out really well. (NAAAAAAAHT!)
But the problems with state government in California go way beyond the governor's office. The two-thirds vote required to pass anything having to do with spending, including each year's state budget, allows a small fringe bloc to gridlock the state each and every year. And the over-reliance on ballot initiatives to shape state laws is a total farce.
Re: How many split ticket voters do we have here? - vision63 - 10-30-2008
Show me a decent Republican and I'll vote for him/her, which means I've never voted for a Republican. I actually liked former L.A. Mayor Richard Riordan, but wouldn't vote for him. Don't want to aid and/or abet. I'm not crazy about most Democrats much less the Republicans.
Re: How many split ticket voters do we have here? - mattkime - 10-30-2008
>>Show me a decent Republican and I'll vote for him/her
Bloomberg. Mayor of NYC.
I'm sure there are plenty of reasons not to like him but his efforts to improve mass transit and increase green space have won me over.
then again, that doesn't sound like a republican, does it?
Re: How many split ticket voters do we have here? - vision63 - 10-30-2008
Bloomberg reminds me of Riordan. I think he's a decent mayor. Mayor is usually a non-partisan race anyway. If they didn't tell you what party they belonged to you wouldn't know.
Re: How many split ticket voters do we have here? - Pops - 10-30-2008
I often don't even know which party my local candidates are affiliated with. Half the time either the Dems are cross-endorsed by Repubs or vice versa. I do know the PEOPLE, however. In federal elections, I tend to vote Democrat but have, over 40 years of voting, pulled a lever on almost every line in the booth.
Re: How many split ticket voters do we have here? - Black Landlord - 10-30-2008
Split-- green where available, otherwise democrat.
Re: How many split ticket voters do we have here? - Silencio - 10-30-2008
Bloomberg is not and never really was a Republican. He registered as a Republican upon first running for mayor of NYC so he could have a much easier go of it in the primaries. He left the Republican party in 2007 and is now an independent.
Re: How many split ticket voters do we have here? - Seacrest - 10-31-2008
Filliam H. Muffman wrote:
[quote=Seacrest]
I vote straight gangsta.
I thought Beserkeley only had Democrat,
Green, Peace and Freedom, Libertarian (not many), Democratic Socialists...probably more obscure ones as well.
Yeah, Bloomberg was a Dem, then a Rep, now Independent.
He flirted with running for pres as a new third party candidate with Chuck Hagel.