Would you vote a certain a way just to please your significant other?

[mvd10]

Lolno. VVD (tax cuts, deregulation and welfare cuts ) >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> gf

[Lexii, harbinger of chaos and sexual anarchy]

No, voting is secret after all

[Mr. Reactionary]

If I had a wife running for office,  Id vote for her over better candidates I agreed with more.

[Ye We Can]

I mean, I'm a Rocky Republican posting on atlas. If a girl has a big problem with my centrist fetish, I really don't think it was meant to be in the first place lol.

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

Hell no.

[Middle-aged Europe]

No, voting is secret after all

This.

Therefore, the more interesting question is: Would you tell her that you voted the way she wanted you to, while secretly voting the way you wanted to all along?

[JA]

No. And I wouldn't date a Republican. It'd be hard enough tolerating a liberal.

[TDAS04]

Only if it was something I didn't care about.

[BuckeyeNut]

If I had a wife running for office, I'd vote for her over better candidates I agreed with more.

This, basically. But there's no way anyone I was dating/married to would run as a Republican. So it'd be a matter of supporting a potentially weaker Democrat over a stronger one.

[The Dowager Mod]

Nope.

[Mr. Morden]

You "I'd never vote for the other party" folks are being no fun with this question.  Forget about general elections.  Would you vote in a certain way **in a primary** just to please your significant other?  Could it ever be the decisive factor if your preference in the primary isn't that strong?

[Anna Komnene]

You "I'd never vote for the other party" folks are being no fun with this question.  Forget about general elections.  Would you vote in a certain way **in a primary** just to please your significant other?  Could it ever be the decisive factor if your preference in the primary isn't that strong?

IKR? It could even be some local thing like city council or a school budget vote that they are really passionate about.  It could be just the act of voting at all when you wouldn't have otherwise. Die hard atlas posters gonna die on the hill no matter what it seems!

[JA]

You "I'd never vote for the other party" folks are being no fun with this question.  Forget about general elections.  Would you vote in a certain way **in a primary** just to please your significant other?  Could it ever be the decisive factor if your preference in the primary isn't that strong?

If I didn't have a particularly strong opinion one way or another, then yes, I would vote a certain way to please my significant other.

[muon2]

No, voting is secret after all

This.

Therefore, the more interesting question is: Would you tell her that you voted the way she wanted you to, while secretly voting the way you wanted to all along?

Unless of course one holds public office. Then none of the official votes are secret, only the votes for candidates. Discussion with an SO becomes paramount in that case.

[Dr. Arch]

Boy, bye.

[Crumpets]

Sure, but probably not in a top-of-the-ticket race. I can imagine yesterday, for example, me being with someone who supports Nikkita Oliver for mayor, since most of my friends do, and voting for her to win some brownie points with a hypothetical gf, even though she's not my favorite candidate.

And of course it's a sliding scale of "how much would I consider voting for this person" vs. "how happy will it make my gf?"

[SWE]

Depends on how attractive she is