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Free Bird
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« on: September 26, 2015, 08:49:56 PM »

If so, why did you leave? I was a Democrat until about 2010. Then I realized the CTDems were bad people that seriously thought that taxing and regulating everything in sight would work somehow even if it had failed miserably before.
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« Reply #1 on: September 26, 2015, 08:54:05 PM »

From childhood to around mid teen years, I was a liberal Democrat because my parents are, and that was all the thought I really put into it.
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« Reply #2 on: September 26, 2015, 08:55:06 PM »

Technically I'm not even in this party. (Washington has no party registration)
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« Reply #3 on: September 26, 2015, 08:56:24 PM »

I preferred the Republicans in 1996.  Lincoln and most of my other favorite presidents were Republican, so I rooted for Bob Dole (I was 9).
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« Reply #4 on: September 26, 2015, 09:04:22 PM »

I preferred the Republicans in 1996.  Lincoln and most of my other favorite presidents were Republican, so I rooted for Bob Dole (I was 9).

Why'd you switch?
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« Reply #5 on: September 26, 2015, 09:05:30 PM »

I preferred the Republicans in 1996.  Lincoln and most of my other favorite presidents were Republican, so I rooted for Bob Dole (I was 9).

Why'd you switch?

I realized my views were more in line with the Democratic Party.
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« Reply #6 on: September 26, 2015, 09:06:21 PM »

No

Opposing ideologies from what I am now, depending on what year? Yes.

But officially? Yeah no, five years of the GOP moving further and further rightward, and no third party in sight? Not much of an incentive to switch parties now is it.  
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« Reply #7 on: September 26, 2015, 09:07:34 PM »

I was a young Republican, briefly.
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« Reply #8 on: September 26, 2015, 09:30:39 PM »

Well my country doesn't have partisan registration in the same way the States do, and I'm not a registered paying member of a political party, so.....

Used to be more pro-Labor back in the day though, but that was before I could vote.
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« Reply #9 on: September 26, 2015, 09:58:40 PM »

I'm not old enough to be registered with either party, but ~2010-2012, I used to be rather liberal, and supported the Democratic Party. Then I gradually drifted to the right.
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« Reply #10 on: September 26, 2015, 10:06:16 PM »

I was a Democrat back when I was a child because mother and (politically involved) uncle were, though I didn't understand liberalism or conservatism whatsoever. By the time I was 14, I began forming my own views and decided that I had more in common with the Republicans.
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« Reply #11 on: September 26, 2015, 10:09:26 PM »

I considered myself a Republican for about a year. Pretty much my parents being as hard-right as they are it was tough to break away, but I did in late 2013. A combination of researching and listening to Ron Paul made me realize there were flaws and contradictions in conservative orthodoxy that led me to my moderate libertarianism now.
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« Reply #12 on: September 26, 2015, 10:11:31 PM »

I considered myself a Republican for about a year. Pretty much my parents being as hard-right as they are it was tough to break away, but I did in late 2013. A combination of researching and listening to Ron Paul made me realize there were flaws and contradictions in conservative orthodoxy that led me to my moderate libertarianism now.

Funny how I see politics in generally the same direction, yet I still have the party label. I have no idea if my social views would block me from relevance in the Georgia GOP, though.
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« Reply #13 on: September 26, 2015, 10:33:16 PM »

Not really, but I remember in the early years of the Bush presidency I thought he was a good guy and I didn't understand why so many people in Seattle thought he was evil incarnate. Until the aftermath of "Mission Accomplished," I would have probably voted for him in 2004 if I had been eligible.
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« Reply #14 on: September 26, 2015, 10:34:54 PM »

From childhood to around mid teen years, I was a liberal Democrat because my parents are, and that was all the thought I really put into it.

Same, basically, but opposite.
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« Reply #15 on: September 27, 2015, 02:06:19 AM »

I leaned Democratic until early 2008, and did so again between 2010 and 2011.

Back in 2008 I had an English teacher who was a conservative Republican, and he became quite an influence for me overall, which is why I became one of those very few Latinos outside the US who supported McCain.

I entered university in 2010 and had a "far-left momentum", which dissipated over the months, and ended after listening to Ron Paul and seeing he had many good (while I didn't always agree), that would become my definitive swing to the center, while I continue to identify as a Republican because of specific issues (view on personal responsibility and state and local power).
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« Reply #16 on: September 27, 2015, 04:48:22 AM »

I was always in the democratic party in the US,and Australia doesn't have party registration, and I'm not even a citizen, so no.
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« Reply #17 on: September 27, 2015, 04:15:54 PM »

Nope, some of my views have changed but not even close to enough to switch parties.
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« Reply #18 on: September 27, 2015, 04:28:44 PM »

I was a cleggmaniac I'm ashamed to say
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« Reply #19 on: September 27, 2015, 05:17:58 PM »

No, I've always been a Tory.
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« Reply #20 on: September 27, 2015, 05:31:01 PM »

Yeah, I was a rather secular Democrat in the past, followed by libertarianism and now a socon Republican. 
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« Reply #21 on: September 27, 2015, 06:00:21 PM »

I don't think I've ever considered myself a Republican, though I did vote for George W. Bush in a mock election at school when I was eight.
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« Reply #22 on: September 27, 2015, 11:23:43 PM »

I told my parents I was a Democrat when I was about 3 and was also briefly a DINO for local primary voting purposes. I was definitely not a standard Democrat at any point though.
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« Reply #23 on: September 27, 2015, 11:32:25 PM »

Yes, up until George W. Bush invaded Iraq, and subsequently made a mess of the occupation.   I feared that his actions would endanger our standing as the world's sole superpower.   The surge mitigated those fears somewhat, but by that point my impression of the GOP as overly reckless when it came to foreign policy had solidified.  

And without foreign policy, there was little else we had in common, so I looked elsewhere for an alternative.  
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« Reply #24 on: September 27, 2015, 11:41:15 PM »

I've never really been strongly associated with a party, and my politics don't align precisely with either major party. Still, the Republicans seem to be doing everything they can to make me a Democrat by default.
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