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« Reply #25 on: September 10, 2014, 08:19:26 PM »

The laws of the State of Texas prevent me or anyone else from having a formal party identification. Below is my "self-reported" identification:

Republican: c. 2002 - c. 2008
Independent: c. 2008 - present

These are the primaries I have voted in, which, for record-keeping purposes, is the closest equivalent my state has to party registration:

2008: none
2010: Republican
2012: Republican
2014: none
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« Reply #26 on: September 10, 2014, 08:45:25 PM »

Democrat: 2004 - present
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« Reply #27 on: September 10, 2014, 08:53:56 PM »

Nominally:
Progressive Conservative: 2003-2004 (My dad was a Prentice delegate)
Conservative: 2004-Present

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Conservative: 2009-Present
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« Reply #28 on: September 10, 2014, 08:58:23 PM »


Alright I didn't realize I was supposed to do just affiliations (as opposed to registration) throughout the years so that'll be even more fun. Let's see

Republican (2004-2009)
Libertarian (2009-2010)
Off the rails conspiracy theorist Libertarian, NWO comin' for ya kidz crazy (2010-2011)
Ron Paul Libertarian (2011-2012)
"Focused on beating Obama, so Romney it is" Republican (2012)
"Maybe I was wrong about everything I ever believed ever" liberal/progressive (2012-2013)
"I hate Capitalism" progressive...into socialism (2013-mid 2014)
"I just want to vote in the primaries, but I really wanna see full communism enacted" Democrat (mid 2014-present)
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« Reply #29 on: September 10, 2014, 09:20:09 PM »

Democratic 2000-2014
Independent  2014-Present

EDIT:  This is just my personal opinion.  We don't have party registration in Missouri.
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« Reply #30 on: September 11, 2014, 09:08:14 AM »

Democratic | 2010-

Haven't registered to vote in Illinois yet, but will be unaffiliated when I do get around to it.

You don't have a choice. Smiley Party registration is not involved in the registration process here.

That said, make sure you register before early October when the deadlines are. And also make sure to at least vote for a couple Democrats such as Mike Frerichs for Treasurer, even if you don't like Quinn.
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« Reply #31 on: September 11, 2014, 11:17:10 AM »

Democratic | 2010-

Haven't registered to vote in Illinois yet, but will be unaffiliated when I do get around to it.

You don't have a choice. Smiley Party registration is not involved in the registration process here.

That said, make sure you register before early October when the deadlines are. And also make sure to at least vote for a couple Democrats such as Mike Frerichs for Treasurer, even if you don't like Quinn.

I can't vote for any Democrats in good conscience, given that I don't have much of anything  in common with them from an ideological standpoint.
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« Reply #32 on: September 11, 2014, 11:44:26 AM »

Democratic | 2010-

Haven't registered to vote in Illinois yet, but will be unaffiliated when I do get around to it.

You don't have a choice. Smiley Party registration is not involved in the registration process here.

That said, make sure you register before early October when the deadlines are. And also make sure to at least vote for a couple Democrats such as Mike Frerichs for Treasurer, even if you don't like Quinn.

I can't vote for any Democrats in good conscience, given that I don't have much of anything  in common with them from an ideological standpoint.

The foundations are the same, but whatever. You might as well not vote, as the deadline for getting on the ballot was the other day and I am pretty sure the only one's who got on were the Dems, Pubs, and Libertarians.
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« Reply #33 on: September 18, 2014, 05:44:59 PM »

Republican (2011-present)

Michigan is open primary, so technically I haven't affiliated with any political party.  But I always identified as Republican, even before I reached voting age (I put 2011 on here because that's when I turned 18).  I was also just elected a GOP precinct delegate, so I guess that's the closest to a formal, legal affiliation I'll ever have.

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« Reply #34 on: September 19, 2014, 04:40:04 AM »

ALP: 2012–Present
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« Reply #35 on: September 19, 2014, 05:00:13 AM »

The laws of the State of Texas Georgia prevent me or anyone else from having a formal party identification. Below is my "self-reported" identification:

Democrat: 2002-Present
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« Reply #36 on: September 19, 2014, 09:23:10 AM »

1869-1920: True Whig Party
1920-1945: NSDAP
1945-1964: Anti-Fascist People's Freedom League
1964-2008: True Whig Party
2008-present: Independent but functionally Democrat
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« Reply #37 on: September 19, 2014, 09:46:58 AM »

Democratic | 2010-

Haven't registered to vote in Illinois yet, but will be unaffiliated when I do get around to it.

You don't have a choice. Smiley Party registration is not involved in the registration process here.

That said, make sure you register before early October when the deadlines are. And also make sure to at least vote for a couple Democrats such as Mike Frerichs for Treasurer, even if you don't like Quinn.

I can't vote for any Democrats in good conscience, given that I don't have much of anything  in common with them from an ideological standpoint.

The foundations are the same, but whatever. You might as well not vote, as the deadline for getting on the ballot was the other day and I am pretty sure the only one's who got on were the Dems, Pubs, and Libertarians.

What do you mean? The Democratic Party is a liberal party and I am not a liberal, so it doesn't really make much sense for me to vote for them in any context. There's not a single Democrat I can think of that I would support for any office at this point.

Assuming I get registered to vote in time, I plan on making extensive use of write-ins, and, barring that, just submitting a spoilt ballot.
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« Reply #38 on: September 19, 2014, 10:15:07 AM »

1869-1920: True Whig Party
1920-1945: NSDAP
1945-1964: Anti-Fascist People's Freedom League
1964-2008: True Whig Party
2008-present: Independent but functionally Democrat

You were born in 1851?
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« Reply #39 on: September 19, 2014, 10:18:32 AM »

16 (voting age) since 4th June 2014 - Grüne

There is no registration in Austria, that's just my affiliation...
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« Reply #40 on: September 19, 2014, 10:27:49 AM »

Democrat, till about 1999
Unaffiliated, 1999 till about 2003
Republican, 2003 - 2004
Unaffiliated 2004 - 2008
Republican, a few months in 2008
Unaffiliated 2008 - 2012
Republican, a few months in 2012
Unaffiliated, 2012 - 2014
Democrat, April 2014 to present (I haven't gotten around to changing it back to unaffiliated with the county registrar, but when I do I'll be Unafilliated till an interesting primary comes along)
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« Reply #41 on: September 19, 2014, 01:14:54 PM »

Democratic | 2010-

Haven't registered to vote in Illinois yet, but will be unaffiliated when I do get around to it.

You don't have a choice. Smiley Party registration is not involved in the registration process here.

That said, make sure you register before early October when the deadlines are. And also make sure to at least vote for a couple Democrats such as Mike Frerichs for Treasurer, even if you don't like Quinn.

I can't vote for any Democrats in good conscience, given that I don't have much of anything  in common with them from an ideological standpoint.

The foundations are the same, but whatever. You might as well not vote, as the deadline for getting on the ballot was the other day and I am pretty sure the only one's who got on were the Dems, Pubs, and Libertarians.

What do you mean? The Democratic Party is a liberal party and I am not a liberal, so it doesn't really make much sense for me to vote for them in any context. There's not a single Democrat I can think of that I would support for any office at this point.

Assuming I get registered to vote in time, I plan on making extensive use of write-ins, and, barring that, just submitting a spoilt ballot.

Nonpartisan voter registration is available in IL through Oct 7, both in person at various government offices and online. From Oct 8 through election day Nov 4 you can register and vote through the grace period process at certain election offices in your county and at your polling place on election day. Depending on your county and whether you vote early you may not have a paper ballot to work with, though there is a process for write-ins on electronic ballots.
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« Reply #42 on: September 19, 2014, 01:20:37 PM »

Democrat, till about 1999
Unaffiliated, 1999 till about 2003
Republican, 2003 - 2004
Unaffiliated 2004 - 2008
Republican, a few months in 2008
Unaffiliated 2008 - 2012
Republican, a few months in 2012
Unaffiliated, 2012 - 2014
Democrat, April 2014 to present (I haven't gotten around to changing it back to unaffiliated with the county registrar, but when I do I'll be Unafilliated till an interesting primary comes along)

I'd be interested in the reasoning behind all these...
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« Reply #43 on: September 19, 2014, 01:41:38 PM »

Democrat, till about 1999
Unaffiliated, 1999 till about 2003
Republican, 2003 - 2004
Unaffiliated 2004 - 2008
Republican, a few months in 2008
Unaffiliated 2008 - 2012
Republican, a few months in 2012
Unaffiliated, 2012 - 2014
Democrat, April 2014 to present (I haven't gotten around to changing it back to unaffiliated with the county registrar, but when I do I'll be Unafilliated till an interesting primary comes along)

I'd be interested in the reasoning behind all these...

It looks like someone who wants to have an impact at the primary. For states that have partisan registration, one must be registered with the party in advance of the primary. Most people won't bother to change it until the next primary comes along and they want to vote in a party primary other than the one they most recently did. Parties use those registration lists to reach out to possible supporters, so unregistering can cut down on that type of call.

IL has open party registration which means that a voter can declare their party intent when they walk up to the primary voting place. The upside is that the voter need not declare an affilation until the day of the vote. The downside is that there is no process to unregister, so for the next two years the party will contact the voter from the primary voting lists. If someone doesn't vote in a primary then IL maintains the last known affiliation on the marked partisan voter lists.
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« Reply #44 on: September 19, 2014, 06:37:42 PM »

Democratic | 2010-

Haven't registered to vote in Illinois yet, but will be unaffiliated when I do get around to it.

You don't have a choice. Smiley Party registration is not involved in the registration process here.

That said, make sure you register before early October when the deadlines are. And also make sure to at least vote for a couple Democrats such as Mike Frerichs for Treasurer, even if you don't like Quinn.

I can't vote for any Democrats in good conscience, given that I don't have much of anything  in common with them from an ideological standpoint.

The foundations are the same, but whatever. You might as well not vote, as the deadline for getting on the ballot was the other day and I am pretty sure the only one's who got on were the Dems, Pubs, and Libertarians.

What do you mean? The Democratic Party is a liberal party and I am not a liberal, so it doesn't really make much sense for me to vote for them in any context. There's not a single Democrat I can think of that I would support for any office at this point.

Assuming I get registered to vote in time, I plan on making extensive use of write-ins, and, barring that, just submitting a spoilt ballot.

Nonpartisan voter registration is available in IL through Oct 7, both in person at various government offices and online. From Oct 8 through election day Nov 4 you can register and vote through the grace period process at certain election offices in your county and at your polling place on election day. Depending on your county and whether you vote early you may not have a paper ballot to work with, though there is a process for write-ins on electronic ballots.

Thanks for the heads up! Smiley
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« Reply #45 on: September 20, 2014, 08:17:37 AM »

Democrat, till about 1999
Unaffiliated, 1999 till about 2003
Republican, 2003 - 2004
Unaffiliated 2004 - 2008
Republican, a few months in 2008
Unaffiliated 2008 - 2012
Republican, a few months in 2012
Unaffiliated, 2012 - 2014
Democrat, April 2014 to present (I haven't gotten around to changing it back to unaffiliated with the county registrar, but when I do I'll be Unafilliated till an interesting primary comes along)

I'd be interested in the reasoning behind all these...

closed primaries. 


Well, pre-1990s I have no control over any of it.  My parents were very loyal Democrats.  Minnesota Democrats at that.  For them the Republicans could do no right and the Democrats could do no wrong.  They were against the Viet Nam war and against capital punishment, they'd never cross a picket line to enter a shop, even if it meant driving to a different store miles away, they were for socialized medicine, the New Deal, the Great Society, and all the rest.  They brainwashed me so thoroughly that until I was 30 I thought Nixon was a dirty word.  Reagan too.  I dutifully voted in all Democrat primaries and for the Democrat candidate in all elections, odd years and even, May and November.  At some point after I reached my 30th birthday I started to think for myself. 

Generally I'm what this forum calls a moderate hero.  I suspect that it is meant as vulgar and derogatory, but I like to own it.  Not unlike Yankee Doodle Dandy.  Also, I'm generally not keen on signing up with any faction, so even if I were a left-wing nut or a fire-breathing fascist, I'd probably still prefer to remain unaffiliated.  But if one wants to affect the process, one must get dirty.  For example, I liked Tom Wolfe early on, and wanted to do what I could to see that he was his party's nominee.  Only way to do that in a state like PA is actually become a Democrat at least three weeks in advance of the primary election.  Usually I change it right back to unaffiliated immediately.  Similarly, in January of 2008 I was living in Iowa and wanted to register my support for Ron Paul in the GOP caucus, so I made my way through the three-feet-thick snowdrifts and the negative twenty degree wind and blowing snow on that January night to the Black Hawk County GOP caucus at Central Middle School to vote for Ron Paul.  Now, Iowa has "Same Day Registration" meaning that you can change yourself from Unaffiliated to Republican or Democrat at the door, or even register to vote at the door, but you still have to go to the county clerk's office in person to change it back.  Of course within a couple of months I changed my registration back to unaffiliated, and of course faced with the choice of McCain and Obama, I voted for Obama. 

By contrast, in California, there's a modified open/closed system, so you can actually stay formally unaffiliated but vote in any party's primary.  When I lived in California 2001-2004 I remained unaffiliated (until december of 2003 when I became a Republican for psychological reasons.  Being a newly-minted Republican, only recently liberated from my parents one-party agenda I looked for a venue in which to preach and spout, and I stumbled upon this place, but enough digression.)

Anyway, I'm generally with the No Party people, but from time to time I feel compelled to pimp myself out in order to muck about in the primary elections.  In most states, that requires a formal conversion.  Kinda like if you want to take communion in the Catholic church, you have to become a catholic.  California primaries operate more like a Dao temple.  Every been to one of those?  I've been to a few of them.  They give everyone three incense sticks at the door.  Even if you're white.  No one asks any questions.  You can light yours and bow before your dead ancestors even if you've never contemplated any of it before.  But in Pennsylvania, it's a little more tight.  Ah, well.  It could be worse.  At least they don't require us to have our foreskins knifed by a mohel prior to voting in primaries. 

The thread does remind me that I need to change formally back to unaffiliated. 

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« Reply #46 on: September 20, 2014, 09:29:37 AM »

Republican (2013-present)

(this is ignoring the little detail that Washington has no party registration Tongue)
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« Reply #47 on: October 01, 2014, 11:03:40 AM »

Democratic | 2010-

Haven't registered to vote in Illinois yet, but will be unaffiliated when I do get around to it.

You don't have a choice. Smiley Party registration is not involved in the registration process here.

That said, make sure you register before early October when the deadlines are. And also make sure to at least vote for a couple Democrats such as Mike Frerichs for Treasurer, even if you don't like Quinn.

I can't vote for any Democrats in good conscience, given that I don't have much of anything  in common with them from an ideological standpoint.

The foundations are the same, but whatever. You might as well not vote, as the deadline for getting on the ballot was the other day and I am pretty sure the only one's who got on were the Dems, Pubs, and Libertarians.

What do you mean? The Democratic Party is a liberal party and I am not a liberal, so it doesn't really make much sense for me to vote for them in any context. There's not a single Democrat I can think of that I would support for any office at this point.

Assuming I get registered to vote in time, I plan on making extensive use of write-ins, and, barring that, just submitting a spoilt ballot.

Nonpartisan voter registration is available in IL through Oct 7, both in person at various government offices and online. From Oct 8 through election day Nov 4 you can register and vote through the grace period process at certain election offices in your county and at your polling place on election day. Depending on your county and whether you vote early you may not have a paper ballot to work with, though there is a process for write-ins on electronic ballots.
I thought Illinois was open primary.  I realize that you publicly declare which party's ballot you vote in the primary, but I thought you couldn't formally register with one.
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« Reply #48 on: October 01, 2014, 10:52:13 PM »

Life-long Republican (here meaning, for effective purposes, since 2012)
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« Reply #49 on: October 02, 2014, 01:46:24 AM »

Democrat: 1998-2000
Republican: 2000-2008
Libertarian: 2008-2014
Republican: 2014-
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