Do You and Your Parents Vote The Same or Totally Different??

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35. Currently usually different

I'm in Canada though so the partisan divide isn't quite so great, and there are more parties. For instance, I'm in Alberta and I voted for the Progressive Conservative party to keep the Wildrose party (tea party nutjob types) out of office. I normally vote NDP, though, but they are a distant second in my riding and this time the vote on the right was split, so I had to make sure Wildrose didn't get in. My mom, who leans right b/c she listens to my dad, also voted PC but my dad voted Wildrose. That was provincially. Federally there are different parties, and I almost always vote NDP but have voted Green in the past (oh, and provincially when I lived in BC I voted for the Marijuana party, even though I never tried the stuff. They actually had a good platform that year). My dad always votes Conservative. My mom goes back and forth.

When I was very little, my dad was hardcore NDP. However, like most right-wingers, he was only voting for his own interests (at the time he was a union man), and as soon as he moved and had a non-union job and wanted lower taxes, he had no problems going to the (then) PCs and then Reform (now merged to Conservatives). Maybe it's true about the formative years...they rubbed off on me, although I will admit to leaning right in my first few elections (years of brainwashing I suppose, living in a very right-leaning area with rabid right parents and a right wing husband - now ex) but since the Iraq war, it's been hard left for me.