Whats your parent(s)or guardians political affiliation?

[Mrs_Beastman]

The one time I've run into someone who is voting for chimp was a 19 year old girl who when I asked her why said 'I dunno'.

I felt sorry for her,not because she was voting for chimp, but because I assume the only reason she voting for chimp is because she is mirroring her parents opinions.

But then I realized the apple doesn't fall far from the tree in my family either. My Mom voted for Gore, thinks chimp is short-sighted and My Dad, if he was alive, I believe would have voted Kerry.

I have a sister that is a retired fire-fighter, fundy Christian and is married to a ex-marine. When they came to dinner, we hid the 'Bush-Hater's Handbook' and the like just to keep the peace when they came to dinner. Found out, they saw F911 and loved it, and think chimp is Hitler incarnate. Blood is thicker than water, isn't it?

So where do you stand compared to the rest of your family?

[Moonbeam_Starlight]

1. I'm pretty sure my family is Dem

or apolitical.

My in laws are a different story. They make rush limpballs look like a pinko commie birkenstock wearing hippie.

Yeah, seriously. They scare me. She's always sending me "pray for bush" emails. I told her to stop.

[Mrs_Beastman]

11. Got to love those emails

My born again sister gets a lot of those emails from her church friends...I guess one time the email was along the lines of'Bush is sent by God and Kerry will ban the Bible...blah blah blah'. My sister was so mad she forwarded a response to everyone on the email. She corrected the misinformation line by line and cited her references and added a link to snopes.com!

[cheshire]

2. My Mom is a Dem, Dad was. They both voted for a repub, Ike but he was

the last one that resembled honesty. From then on They, all 5 kids and my 2 kids have voted Dem. I would like to think I could tell a good republican over a lousy Dem but I haven't had much chance. My husbands the same way.

[Mrs_Beastman]

8. I agree

voting down the line is not very healthy. My Grandma votes whatever the church tells her to...thats not good

[yardwork]

3. My mom's a life-long Dem who voted for Reagan once (sigh)

My father veered all over the place. He became more and more Republican as he got older.

My dad's choice of president became somewhat famous in our family, because the one he voted for was elected president in almost every election. The only two exceptions were Carter (he voted for Ford) and Clinton's second term (he voted for Dole). My father died before the Gore-shrubbie election.

So I use the dad-meter to predict who will win this election, and I just can't see my dad supporting shrubbie. No way. He wouldn't like Kerry, but he would not vote for shrubbie. Therefore, shrubbie is toast.

Oh, and my dad lived in Ohio all his life. I predict that Ohio will go for Kerry. They won't like him much, but they won't vote for shrubbie. Mark my words.

[Mrs_Beastman]

14. Your Dad sounds like he would be interesting to talk to about politics

Like he was will informed.

I'm in NE Ohio...I know just from talking to coworkers and my neighborhood that Kerry has NE Ohio....Southern Ohio will be close...I hope you are right!

[yardwork]

23. My dad grew up in NE Ohio!

I thought it was infuriating to talk politics with him because he was so much more conservative than I was. But he was very intelligent, and he tended to look at things in unusual ways. Talking with him was always interesting.

I have a good feeling about the whole eastern half of Ohio going for Kerry. The western half - I just don't know.

Overall, though, I feel good about Kerry's likelihood of winning.

[Reverend_Smitty]

4. My family...

pretty much shades conservative. However not a one of them are registered to any party...I guess so they can say "I'm not a Republican, I'm an independent" when I call them out on their puke leanings. My two aunts lean democratic...simply because they are pro-choice. My one uncle is apolitical, and the other one is an "independent" but likes to bait me any chance he can get. My dad is the same way...I just get the feeling that he is really misinformed about a lot of things. Which is strange because he lives with me (a loudmouth) and my mom voted for Perot in 92 but voted Clinton in 96 and didn't vote in 2000 (she lived in Florida at the time)and she friggen hated Jeb, so there is no doubt that she would have voted for Gore (only if). I still haven't let her forget that one...but no doubt she is voting for Kerry this time. Unfortunately she moved to South Carolina

[Mrs_Beastman]

17. Interesting

a group of independent thinkers. Congrats. My opinion, that's how it should be instead of just voting what your family thinks.

[Reverend_Smitty]

21. Yes...

there have been some interesting dinner time "discussions" at our table (they usually just devolved into screaming matches) but I've fought with and sided with all of them at least once or twice in my life...I think the whole political discourse in my family comes from my grandfather. The man knew how to instigate an argument, but damn if he wasn't an effective debater.

I'd be interested to know how he would have voted in this election...He passed away in 98, so he missed out on all of the crap that has been going on. I know for a fact that he voted for Reagan, didn't like Bush I or Clinton. He just despised incompetence and stupidity (he was an old school newspaper editor, never took crap from anyone) So I think that he would vote against Shrub for that reason alone

[strategery blunder]

5. Mom is apolitical, I'm a strong pro-life Dem.

And by "pro-life," I mean "pro-life both before birth AND after...hint, hint, hint..."

I have a strong interest in politics, but my immediate family never cared for politics, at least not up until now. bu$h* has INFURIATED my mom and brought her out of political hibernation, so to speak.:) However, my family in Arizona consists of hopeless, wingnut freepers.

I took my grandmother in WA to see F/911; she said that every voter should be required to watch it, if that's any indication as to how she will be voting...:)

[Mrs_Beastman]

18. What infuriated your mom the most about chimp?

[strategery blunder]

25. Corporate scandals

1)Enron and Halliburton. Need I say more?:grr:

2)She also works for United at ORD and says $hrub* hasn't done squat regarding airport security. As I worked at ORD over the summer too, I'm going to have to agree with her.

Edit to add rankings in order of importance and the next sentence:

3)She is also worried about me getting caught in a $hrubbie* draft.

In a nutshell, "Am I better off than I was four years ago?" She is not very well politically informed, but she smells a rat.:)

[Mrs_Beastman]

27. sounds good

[LisaLynne]

6. My parents never voted!

It was a religious thing. Go figure. And now ... look at me. In fact, all my siblings are very politically involved. Now, if my mom did vote, she would vote Dem. I wish she should because she's very much against abortion, but she thinks it's stupid of people to vote Repub just for that reason. I think she could really make the case, but it would be hypocritical because ... she doesn't vote. Sigh.

Anyway, my larger family is very much Republican -- my dad's side because they actually have some money they're trying to protect and think that's all that matters and my mom's family are the enigmatic blue collar repugs who are voting against their own economic interests.

Oh, except for her mother, my grandmother, who can't mention Bush without calling him one name or the other. :)

[deadparrot]

7. Fairly Democratic.

Parents and brother are both VERY Democratic, especially my dad and me. Same for my mom's mother and sister. I don't know about mom's brother, but my mother's father AND stepfather (her father died in '72) were/are Republican.

My dad's side is apolitical, although I suspect Republican leanings, at least on my grandfather's part. The only thing I know is my dad's nasty old uncle (a priest, gag) is so far right he borders on fascist.

[tibbir]

9. I'm looked at as the commie pinko in my family.

Lets see. My son is an idependent who votes mainly democratic but says he can't see any difference (sigh, thought I raised him better than that.) My parents and two brothers are VERY conservative repukes. My ex-husband is an idiot but if he votes he'll probably pull the straight democratic ticket. I can't think of any other democrats in all of my close and even distant realtives except one brother-in-law and his wife (and they're pretty conservative at that).

I don't know what caused me to come to the light but I'll be forever greatful. :party:

[K rock]

10. Both republicans

Though I got my mother voting for a dem as president for the first time in her life. My father unfortunately is an immovable object.

[blackcat77]

12. My dad was a Republican precinct committeeman...

..and ran a couple times for the state senate. My mom was a dutiful, 1950s Republican wife.

But credit where it's due -- it was their interest in politics that got me started even if I did end up choosing the other party.

[Momgonepostal]

13. Both my parents were/are Repubs

My Dad was extremely conservative.

My mom is a bit less so, is not very fiscally conservative, is pro-choice.

I think I was in high school when it dawned on me that my parents were wrong.

Interestingly, my dad had 5 children that lived to adulthood. Only one is a Republican. :-)

[mark414]

15. democrats

my mom i'm not sure of...but my dad has voted democrat his whole life, he even worked on a couple political campaigns back in the 80's. they never, ever talked politics to us, but their life lessons and the way they raised us, you know, to care about people besides ourselves, pretty much ensured that we would be liberals too.

it worked!

edit: i meant i'm not sure of how my mom has voted her whole life...but of bush, she says he's a total embarrassment and talks about how scared she is if he's re-elected

i love my mom!

[JohnKleeb]

16. ok here goes

Mom- Democrat, she comes from a blue collar, and is a granddaughter of immigrants, she worked hard to put herself through school, and is generally liberal on the issues and increasingly outraged by what is going on, she saw F-911 with me and her parents and we all loved it. She also is probably the one in my family most amazed how stupid Bush is.

Dad- Democrat, He comes from an upper middle class background where his father a NLRB board member taught him to be objective but to stand up for the little guy, he was a sorta hippy in the 60's, and etc, he even attend an anti war rally with me, he's yet to see F-911 though.

Oh and though me and my parents sometimes talked politics when I was younger, my mom's parents, born in to poverty on the eye of the depression helped me learn more about politics, its funny how liberal they can sound yet they thikn they're more moderate yet Grandma has told me, I havent heard from Grandpa but she says she supports equal benefits for gay couples, not gay marriage but still, a rather nice view from a devout Catholic, not meant to be offending to other Catholics but you have to admit, many in the chruch do oppose things like that, and she has a very liberal position on the issue, and she opposed the amendment, I am sure my grandpa feels simliarly though they are more fans of discussing economic and foreign policy, big economic liberals and sort of dovish on foreign policy, funny because my grandfather is a Korean War vet.

[starroute]

19. My family was a bouquet of varying shades of Democrats

I grew up in the 50's reading The New Republic (back when it was still liberal), I.F. Stone's Weekly, and the columns in the New York Post (back when it was still liberal.) I learned to adore Adlai Stevenson, despise Nixon (originally for "the horrible things he did to Helen Gahagan Douglas"), sneer at Eisenhower for saying nu-cyu-lar, and be more than a little terrified of Joe McCarthy.

My father has always been a foursquare liberal Democrat. I think the only time he didn't vote Democratic in a presidential race was 1948, when he refused to vote for Truman because he'd come out of the Prendergast Machine in Kansas City. He voted for Norman Thomas instead. In the 50's, he got involved in the Reform Democratic movement in New York and helped overthrow Tammany Hall.

My mother -- well, I was never quite sure about my mother. I think she was a covert radical who just didn't have much interest in the nitty-gritty of actual politics. She used to tell me about how in 1932 she went into the Communist Party headquarters and said, "What can I do?" They said, "You can get up early on Sunday mornings and sell The Daily Worker on street corners." She said, "Forget it. Call me when the revolution starts."

Of course, the revolution never did start, and after Franklin Roosevelt was elected she made her peace with the Democratic Party. I think she probably idealized Eleanor. But she always kept a stubborn subversive streak -- far more so than my father. I suppose she was the one who influenced me most.

My grandmother, who lived with us, was of the generation who believed that any Jew who voted Republican was a traitor, but I never found out why. It probably went back to the sweatshop days of the teens. Aside from that, I'm not sure she had any political beliefs.

My aunt was very involved in Democratic politics in New Jersey. She was friends with a governor's wife back in the 1960's and used to tell us the latest gossip about Nelson Rockefeller. I think her husband, who was police and fire commissioner of their town, may have been a Republican, but I never heard him express any political opinions.

And that's all I can remember about politics in my family. Is it any wonder I wound up at DU?

[carpetbagger]

20. RINOs

Voted for Nixon three times, but they've jumped ship since the late 1980's. They've had a very moderate congressman up until recently (even I voted for her in the pre-Gingrich days).

My mother is probably undecided/lean Kerry this time around, but if my father hadn't died, he'd have been completely against Bush.

[Beware the Beast Man]

22. My mom is left of center.

But she implored me some time ago to vote Scrub out of office. She's usually apolitical; she's told me in the past that she usually votes against someone, not necessarily for a candidate (Big Dog and Hubert Humphrey were the only candidates in that really impressed her).

I believe my dad's a repuke, which is fitting, because he's a deadbeat...

[Scooter24]

24. I think...

Me and my grandmother are the only two living Democrats in my family. Politics in general are not very big in my family nor are they discussed often, but we have such a strong pro-military, pro-war family it wouldn't be hard to guess that they are Republican.

A day doesn't go by where I don't get some crap from a family member about joining the military. I guess they haven't got the memo about me being gay. lol

[Nightowl_2004]

26. My Mom is Indpendent but almost always go Dem, Dad is a Republican

[kariatari]

28. Both staunch dems

I have quite a few friends voting W just because their parents support him. I have tried to be nice and ask them questions about why they support Bush and the only thing they can say is "I think the war effort is needed." But they can't say why they think the "war effort" is needed.

BLAH!

Stupid western Iowa repugs.

[Droopy]

29. Dad (R), Mom (D)

That's the way they're voting this year anyway. My dad once said that the only republican that he'd ever vote for was Reagan. I guess he really thinks a lot of Bush. My mom is more of an independent voter who leans right, but she is thoroughly disgusted by Bush so she'll be voting Kerry.

[miss_kitty]

30. Active Dems

they had teas and worked on fundraisers and shit- my mom's been dead since '81, my dad since '89, and the really old dems remember mom, and a lot of the WA state leadership remember dad still...

[kodi]

31. dad's to the left of trotsky, mom's idol is still bobby kennedy

me? a pro-union, libertarian socialist who votes democratic.

[Trish]

32. Raised in a democrat family

in Texas! I remember asking my Father the difference between the parties during Reagan/Carter
He said, "Well, Republicans are for rich people, and Democrats are for poor people"
Seeing as how we were poor, I wanted Carter to win...:(
And we are all still active Dems (I even have family who visits DU!)
:)
:kick:

[Wapsie B]

33. Mom, moderate republican.

Oldest sister, Liberal Democrat
Younger sister, repug
Brother, conservative repug, closer to neo than paleocon
Dad, repug so conservative that a John Bircher would look like a Communist in comparison

[donheld]

34. my mother is a

Bible beating Bush loving repuglican. If Rush says it my mother believes it. my father is was republican
:eyes:

[EnfantTerrible]

35. Both my parents are Rethuglicans

We have a gag rule on political talk. The arguments were getting out of hand. I have a really hard time recognizing them as people that I'm related to... we're so ideologically opposed that if I didn't speak to them ever again it would be a relief.

Alas, I have a one year old daughter and I can't bring myself to cut them out of her life. I imagine I'll use my parents like a diarama exhibit at a Natural History museum... teach my little one about the dangers of regressive ideology in it's natural habitat.

My sisters are just lazy about politics and will probably vote for the Shrub because they've been brainwashed by our parents and don't bother to question.

:smoke:

[Hello_Kitty]

36. My dad was a registered Republican

Because he worked for the Nixon administration. I even got to meet Nixon and Agnew as a toddler. But he always voted Democrat. So I guess that left an impression on me. Act like a Republican when they're in charge, but always be a Democrat in your heart. Except now I'm a proud Democrat, out in the open.