dhinojosa
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Thu Jul-21-05 09:24 AM
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Poll question: Is your spouse or significant other a republican? |
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Edited on Thu Jul-21-05 09:25 AM by dhinojosa
A couple a days ago, I did a poll asking what percentage of your family is republican. This poll, cuts to the point, is your spouse or significant other a republican?
Please don't consider any ex-spouses or ex-boyfriends or ex-girlfriends. Just who you are with currently.
So again: Is your spouse or significant other a republican?
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Thu Jul-21-05 09:25 AM
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dhinojosa
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Thu Jul-21-05 09:26 AM
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3. I think this will be a blow-out in the 'no' but.... |
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I am thinking we will be surprised by the 'yes' amount. :)
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Thu Jul-21-05 09:30 AM
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10. Yeah, it will be interesting to see |
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I can imagine older DUers who have been married for a long time may have Republican S/O's.
But, as a non-married 23 year old, I don't see how any liberal in my age group could date a Republican. I just don't understand it.
We grew up under Clinton and now Bush, and I just can't respect anyone who even thinks Bush is a decent, honest man.
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Thu Jul-21-05 09:26 AM
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2. I think I'm single right now because ... |
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I'm so into politics and I live and work in a pretty conservative area. I just can't deal. :)
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Thu Jul-21-05 09:27 AM
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5. Might be a good thing to have a vacation in a liberal town.... |
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Thu Jul-21-05 09:53 AM
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21. Maybe! Where is Liberal Town again? |
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Especially since I just learned eHarmony is Republican-owned. Not that you couldn't tell that from the commercials... ;)
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Thu Jul-21-05 09:54 AM
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22. The word 'Harmony' shouldn't be used by a republican |
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Thu Jul-21-05 09:26 AM
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4. politics is too central to my own identity ... |
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Thu Jul-21-05 09:27 AM
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6. I'm always baffled by posts about a spouse/best friend/etc who is a |
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conservative.
I just can't imagine making a life with someone whose values are so at odds with my own.
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Thu Jul-21-05 09:28 AM
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7. I think before 2000 it didn't matter...... |
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it's just we've had a failure president that it matters now.
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Thu Jul-21-05 09:29 AM
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8. No, he's been a Dem for 15 years |
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But he was a Repuke when I met him 15 years ago although he's always been a liberal on social issues. He was misinformed and supposedly based his party affliation on "economic & business" reasons. :eyes:
I was glad to help educate him! Of course, being a Repuke then was not was it is today either.
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Thu Jul-21-05 09:29 AM
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9. no, not a serial killer either |
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I don't see how anyone could date or marry a person dedicated to destroying civil rights in this country.
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Thu Jul-21-05 09:31 AM
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My wife is a Conservative so close enough to a republican but moderate. She is very much against what the Bush administration is doing but I am the outspoken. I am New Democrat (Social Democrat).
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Thu Jul-21-05 09:33 AM
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Thu Jul-21-05 09:41 AM
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My wife is conservative. We have open minded discussions concerning politics. I find myself agreeing with what she says just as much as she agrees with me on points. Whats funny is she was raised in a well to do Democratic/Catholic family.
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Thu Jul-21-05 09:35 AM
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13. A Big Fat Yes here...... |
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36 years later and still going strong! Politics and Liberalism is important to me, but not the most important thing in MY LIFE.
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Thu Jul-21-05 09:38 AM
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14. My hub is a republican but not a repig.... |
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he's a moderate...until you say things against bush or any of the liers on TV. His whole sense of dignity and intelligence goes out the window. He has a PhD and yet he repeats the crap Fox and criminals throw out. We've been married for too long. I just ignore his comments. I've caught him talking against bush with his retired Army neighbor and they stop talking when I walk in the room. That's a good sign.
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Thu Jul-21-05 09:40 AM
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15. Love has no politics!! |
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Been married 13 years to a Republican. Been working on him to change for 13 years. Never was much of an issue until 2000 and didn't speak to him for a long time after he voted for Stupid. I keep him well informed because of DU and he's coming around. He's much more conservative than I but we agree on what's important to us: women's issues and the environment. I'll get him to change one of these days. At least he voted for Kerry and votes Dem locally.
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Thu Jul-21-05 09:40 AM
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16. A four-Dem household here... |
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Both my wife and I are Democrats,
Our 13-year old daughter is. Two years ago she had test in her sixth-grade class that asked who the president is. She answered "Al Gore." Of course the teacher marked it wrong, but now she understands the sacrifice one must make at times to uphold the conviction of their beliefs.
Our 7-year son draws pictures of Bush in jail...
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Thu Jul-21-05 09:42 AM
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18. My wife used to be a Republican |
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Voted Repub for 30 years. Liberal on most issues, but very anti-abortion. Now she's Dem all the way, but still anti-choice.
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Thu Jul-21-05 09:47 AM
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19. No, but my first husband was. |
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He had a problem with logical thinking, too.
Here is one example: When he was laid off and fumbling with how he was going to earn a living, his income was significantly reduced. I asked him why he didn't go to court to have his child support reduced to a level he could manage. He said, "I am not going to deny my boys what I owe them." So he borrowed to pay their mother the full amount that month and never made another child support payment.
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Thu Jul-21-05 09:52 AM
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With appropriate birth control and protection, I might screw a repuke if she was really hot, but an actual relationship? No frigging way.
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Thu Jul-21-05 10:01 AM
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My husband is a blue collar red neck Dem through and through.
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Thu Jul-21-05 10:10 AM
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24. Because of your avatar, I have to ask if I may.... |
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Are you gay? Because if you are, I must say, finding a gay blue collar red neck Dem as a husband is probably one of the most elusive things to find. :)
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Thu Jul-21-05 10:26 AM
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26. No I'm a straight female |
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I carry the triangle so long as my GLBT brothers and sisters struggle for equal rights .
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Thu Jul-21-05 10:27 AM
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27. Oh ok, right on.....a noble avatar.... |
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Thu Jul-21-05 10:23 AM
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25. We sail a Liberal Ship at home! |
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The wife and I are liberal Dems and my two daughters are liberals as well. My 10 yr. old girl still has a collage poster she made with pictures of Kerry & Edwards from magazines last fall. Both girls can name all of their elected officials from the Prez on down and whether they are Dem or Repub.
I couldn't fathom an intimate relationship with a conservative Repub. The sex would be way too boring. }(
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Thu Jul-21-05 10:27 AM
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nice line there at the end.
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Thu Jul-21-05 10:29 AM
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Which leads to some interesting hollering matches occasionally.
:spank:
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Thu Jul-21-05 10:30 AM
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Thu Jul-21-05 10:31 AM
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marry a Republican. The marriage would last all of 2 seconds.
I got married 16 years ago. Back then, political affiliation did not make much of a difference. I realized Mr. Suziq was a fellow Democrat when he came with me when I voted for David Dinkins for NYC mayor and he was 100% behind me.
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Thu Jul-21-05 11:44 AM
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It's bad enough that my husband's family voted for Bush. They're in Jersey, and we live in Bay Area, and they think, WE'RE whacked. lol
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Thu Jul-21-05 11:45 AM
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33. I have NEVER had a Republican partner... nor even dated one... ever. |
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Thu Jul-21-05 11:52 AM
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:shrug: Going on 3 years and we've never talked about politics once.
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Thu Jul-21-05 11:57 AM
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35. Registered, but he doesn't vote that way. |
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Thu Jul-21-05 12:27 PM
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36. I'm Married To A Republican |
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Thu Jul-21-05 12:32 PM
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37. No. She was when I met her though. |
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Actually she was in transition. She had always voted R, until 1992, when she voted for Perot. We met in 1995, and she registered as D and voted for Clinton in 1996, and for Dems ever since.
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Thu Jul-21-05 01:21 PM
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38. She was a "moderate". I'm an Anarchist. She's sometimes to MY left. |
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After 21 years of marriage and a lot of political/philosophical discussions, she has done a major turnaround over the years.
A one time "good" Irish Catholic girl could now be safely called a commie extremist who occasionally berates me for being too forgiving of "moderates" like Cantwell or Feinstein.
I can't imagine being married to a Republican.
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Thu Jul-21-05 01:39 PM
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He'd really like to be Emperor of the World (as any good Aries does, of course).
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