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JanMichael Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-16-03 03:10 PM
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Poll question: Your Mother is/was a...
Edited on Tue Sep-16-03 03:16 PM by JanMichael
Well?

What are/were the political habits of your Mom?
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JVS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-16-03 03:12 PM
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1. hamster and your father smelled of elderberries!
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JanMichael Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-16-03 03:12 PM
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3. Ouch!
True, but ouch...
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Brucey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-16-03 03:12 PM
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2. Funny,
my mom's pure Democrat, but she still asks me who to vote for!
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uptohere Donating Member (603 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-16-03 03:13 PM
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4. a saint
and sadly no longer among the living.
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JanMichael Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-16-03 03:15 PM
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6. Sorry to hear that.
Hang on, I'll edit the poll.
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uptohere Donating Member (603 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-16-03 03:52 PM
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11. me too, thanks
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Riptide Donating Member (212 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-16-03 08:07 PM
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23. Mine too. It was exactly a year ago yesterday that she died...
at the too young age of 71. Alas, she was also a Canadian and always voted for the Liberal party. I miss her terribly.
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ryharrin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-16-03 03:13 PM
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5. She was an independant who voted dem, but she registered democrat because
of Dean. She's been going to meetups and working on the campaign with me, its been fun.
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ronzo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-16-03 03:17 PM
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7. I come from repub stock...
Mom's not lockstep, though.
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rogerashton Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-16-03 03:18 PM
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8. anarcho-pacifist
in theory, anyway, who voted as an Eisenhower Democrat.
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Nikia Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-16-03 03:50 PM
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9. My mother's a Democrat
She has gotten more conservative as she has gotten older but she says that she'll always vote for a pro choice candidate, which bationally is usually a Democrat.
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soleft Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-16-03 03:50 PM
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10. Rolling Stone
Oh, wait, that was my dad, sorry
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LynneSin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-16-03 03:54 PM
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12. You forgot Clueless
My mother's political opinions are whatever her husband gives her. If she had it her way I'd shut up about politics and find me a husband. But then again my mother was a product of the 50's - it was her upbringing!
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damnraddem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-16-03 05:03 PM
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13. What, no red-diaper babies?
Of course, there's also what one's father was, heavily correlated with what one's mother was.
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ButterflyBlood Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-16-03 05:21 PM
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14. exact opposite of a DINO
Democrat In Everything But Name

Voted Democratic in almost every election, but refused to ever call herself one for some reason. Then again, the same applies to me, but that's because I'm way to the left of the party.
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karlschneider Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-16-03 05:30 PM
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15. Had to pick "other". Mom was a Repub for 55~ years then switched.
Worked for Inhofe (Sen from OK, asshole) years ago, now hates him and Shrub.
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Solly Mack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-16-03 07:43 PM
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16. Mom was a socialist
who voted Democratic but wanted an alternative to both
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shugah Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-16-03 08:46 PM
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27. yeah, you need that category
socialist that votes dem. "what else ya gonna do?"
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Jonte_1979 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-16-03 07:45 PM
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17. A hamster (nt.)
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jumptheshadow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-16-03 07:51 PM
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18. My mom saw the light
My grandfather was a Republican politican, so Mom grew up as a Republican.

She loathed the Kennedys even though she was an Irish Catholic.

Her affiliation with the Democratic Party came late in life. She liked the Clintons. She hated what the Republicans were doing to the Clintons. She is passionately anti-Bush. She says she will never vote for another Republican in her life again.

I have been a Democrat all my adult life. I think I'm the only one in my immediate family who can say that.
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NNN0LHI Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-16-03 07:51 PM
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19. Other. Fanatical Republican. Just like my father. n/t
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CWebster Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-16-03 07:53 PM
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20. Recently registered D to vote in the primary
previously Ind. Red.
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KaraokeKarlton Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-16-03 07:54 PM
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21. My Mom was anti-political
She said the whole lot of them were miserable lying bastards not worth the effort to vote for. She used to think differently back before the 60's, though, but I'm not sure who she voted for. I'm guessing she was a moderate Independent. Hunting was always big where I grew up, so she would never vote for anyone who wasn't pro gun. Aside from that very big issue everything else she would lean Democratic, but guns would make my family vote Republican in a heart beat.
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slackmaster Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-16-03 08:06 PM
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22. Lifelong Republican until about 4 years ago
She quit when they went too far to the right for her taste.

She never did vote a straight party line anyway. Voted for JFK in 1960 for example.
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clar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-16-03 08:10 PM
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24. Mine was a Democratic Powerhouse
Still is, and a hell of an interesting woman. She's 84. She had an interesting career before having 4 kids, married late for the time, had all of us after she was 35. She worked for the OSS (office of Strageic Services) in Europe. She's fluent in 4 languages. Went on to work for the Voice of America. 3x delegate to the National Convention, active in the League of Women Voters. She's an autocratic, annoying grande dame, but brilliant, funny and passionate in her devotion to the Democratic Party.
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Hamlette Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-16-03 08:14 PM
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25. I'm a 3rd generation godless commie pinko
my mother didn't take my dad's name when they married in 1947.

She's quite a gal.
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Skittles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-16-03 08:36 PM
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26. LABOUR PARTY
true Brit
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SmileyBoy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-16-03 08:49 PM
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28. No "Communist" choice???
My mother's a stone-cold Leninist Communist. Seriously, I'm not bullshitting. OTOH, my father is a moderate-liberal whose semi-socially conservative, but he ALWAYS votes Democratic.

Wellstone was TOO RIGHT WING in my mother's eyes. SERIOUSLY.
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