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« Reply #150 on: August 29, 2012, 04:19:49 PM »
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Straight Republican for my mother (1976-present) and maternal grandparents (1956-present). No idea how/if my aunt voted (1972?-2000?). I would guess that my maternal grandmother's mother (1948-1976) and father (1948-1996) voted similarly.

Straight Democrat from 1960-1968 and straight Republican from 1972 on for paternal grandmother (1960-2000) and grandfather (1960-1984).

Reagan in 1980, straight Libertarian from 1984-2004, straight Republican from 2008-present for my father. I would assume similar voting patterns for my uncle (1972-present).

I would guess that my great-grandparents voted Labour, with the exception of my maternal grandmother's parents who probably voted Conservative.
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« Reply #151 on: December 01, 2012, 03:37:33 PM »

My brother voted for Kerry in 04, Obama in 08 but didn't vote this time.  He has become more conservative recently but he is appalled by how pro-war and xenophobic both parties are.  He still considers himself a Democrat though. 

My mother never votes.  My uncle who passed away recently would always vote for the Democrats because they're good for business as the economy prospers under democratic administrations.  He would also say that Republicans are crooks
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« Reply #152 on: November 17, 2013, 03:49:17 PM »
« Edited: January 05, 2014, 03:54:23 PM by MATTROSE94 »

Mom (1957-)
1976: Jimmy Carter
1980: Ronald Reagan
1984: Ronald Reagan
1988: Ron Paul
1992: Ross Perot
1996: Ross Perot
2000: George W. Bush
2004: John Kerry
2008: Barack Obama
2012: Barack Obama

Dad (1955-)
1976: Jimmy Carter
1980: Ronald Reagan
1984: Ronald Reagan
1988: Unknown (Probably George H.W. Bush)
1992: Ross Perot
1996: Ross Perot
2000: Al Gore
2004: Not sure if he voted
2008: Barack Obama
2012: Mitt Romney

Mom's Mother (1926-2008)
1948: Unknown (Probably Thomas Dewey)
1952: Unknown (Probably Dwight Eisenhower)
1956: Unknown (Probably Dwight Eisenhower)
1960: Richard Nixon
1964: Barry Goldwater
1968: Hubert Humphrey
1972: Unknown (Probably Richard Nixon)
1976: Gerald Ford
1980: Ronald Reagan
1984: Ronald Reagan
1988: Unknown (Probably George H.W. Bush)
1992: Unknown (Probably Bill Clinton)
1996: Unknown (Probably Bill Clinton)
2000: Unknown (Probably Al Gore)
2004: Was in nursing home, so I don't know if she voted there or not

Mom's Father (1921-2000)
1944: Was in the military fighting in Europe. If he was not in the military, most likely Franklin Roosevelt.
1948: Unknown (Probably Harry Truman)
1952: Unknown (Probably Dwight Eisenhower)
1956: Unknown (Probably Dwight Eisenhower)
1960: Richard Nixon
1964: Lyndon Johnson
1968: George Wallace
1972: Unknown (Probably Richard Nixon)
1976: Jimmy Carter
1980: Ronald Reagan
1984: Ronald Reagan
1988: Unknown (Probably George H.W. Bush)
1992: Unknown (Probably Bill Clinton)
1996: Unknown (Probably Bill Clinton)

Mom's Grandmother (1899-1965)
1920: Warren Harding
1924: Calvin Coolidge
1928: Herbert Hoover
1932: Herbert Hoover
1936: Alf Landon
1940: Wendell Wilkie
1944: Thomas Dewey
1948: Thomas Dewey
1952: Dwight Eisenhower
1956: Dwight Eisenhower
1960: Richard Nixon
1964: Barry Goldwater (Enthusiastically)

Mom's Cousin (1955-2010)
1976: Gerald Ford
1980: Ronald Reagan
1984: Ronald Reagan
1988: George H.W. Bush
1992: George H.W. Bush
1996: Bob Dole
2000: George W. Bush
2004: George W. Bush
2008: John McCain

Mom's Niece (1982-2010)
2000: Ralph Nader
2004: John Kerry
2008: Brian Moore
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« Reply #153 on: November 18, 2013, 07:46:03 PM »

Mother (registered Independent)
1992: George H.W. Bush
1996: Bill Clinton
2000: Al Gore
2004: George W. Bush
2008: Barack Obama
2012: Barack Obama

Father (registered Republican)
1992: George H.W. Bush
1996: Bill Clinton
2000: Al Gore
2004: George W. Bush
2008: John McCain
2012: Barack Obama

Sister (registered Democrat)
2012: Barack Obama
2013: Barbara Buono

I have no idea how my parents voted in statewide and local elections for any year so far, my sister voted in the Governors election in New Jersey earlier this month for Barbara Buono.
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« Reply #154 on: November 18, 2013, 08:06:25 PM »

Republican, Republican, Republican.  For all of my immediate and most of my distant family members. 
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« Reply #155 on: November 18, 2013, 10:08:40 PM »

Mother (registered Republican)
1992: George H.W. Bush
1996: Bob Dole
2000: George W. Bush
2004: George W. Bush
2008: John McCain
2012: Mitt Romney

Father (registered Republican)
1984: Walter Mondale
1988: Unknown (Probably Michael Dukakis)
1992: George H.W. Bush
1996: Bob Dole
2000: Al Gore
2004: George W. Bush
2008: John McCain
2012: Mitt Romney

Mom's Mother: Unable to vote, lived in China

Mom's Father: See above

Dad's Father: Unknown, most likely Solid R.

Dad's Mother: Unknown, most likely Solid D. Voted for Warren in the Massachusetts 2012 Senate race.

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« Reply #156 on: November 19, 2013, 08:55:45 PM »

Here is an updated version. My dad's mother passed away in May, but she supported Romney.

Dads Dad (1915-1997)
1936: Roosevelt
1940: Wilkie
1944: Dewey
1948: Dewey
1952: Eisenhower
1956: Eisenhower
1960: Nixon
1964: Johnson
1968: Nixon
1972: Nixon
1976: Ford
1980: Reagan
1984: Reagan
1988: Bush
1992: Bush
1996: Dole

Dads Mom (1925-2013)
1948: Dewey
1952: Eisenhower
1956: Eisenhower
1960: Nixon
1964: Johnson
1968: Nixon
1972: Nixon
1976: Ford
1980: Reagan
1984: Reagan
1988: Bush
1992: Bush
1996: Dole
2000: Bush
2004: Bush
2008: McCain
2012: Romney

Moms Dad (1939-2008)
1960: Kennedy
1964: Johnson
1968: Humphrey
1972: McGovern
1976: Carter
1980: Carter
1984: Mondale
1988: Dukakis
1992: Perot
1996: Clinton
2000: Gore
2004: Kerry

Moms Mom (1942-)
1964: Goldwater
1968: Wallace
1972: Nixon
1976: Ford
1980: Reagan
1984: Reagan
1988: Bush
1992: Bush
1996: Dole
2000: Bush
2004: Bush
2008: McCain
2012: Romney

Dad (1955-)
1976: Carter
1980: Reagan
1984: Reagan
1988: Bush
1992: Bush
1996: Dole
2000: Bush
2004: Bush
2008: McCain
2012: Romney

Mom (1965-)
1984: Reagan
1988: Bush
1992: Bush
1996: Clinton
2000: Bush
2004: Bush
2008: McCain
2012: Romney

Uncle (1969-)
1988: Bush
1992: Bush
1996: Dole
2000: Buchanan
2004: Bush
2008: Obama
2012: Obama

Me (1996-), if I could vote in all elections, 1900 to present.
1900: McKinley
1904: Parker
1908: Taft
1912: Taft
1916: Hughes
1920: Cox
1924: Davis
1928: Hoover
1932: Hoover
1936: Landon
1940: Wilkie
1944: Dewey
1948: Thurmond
1952: Eisenhower
1956: Eisenhower
1960: Nixon
1964: Goldwater
1968: Wallace
1972: McGovern
1976: Carter
1980: Reagan
1984: Reagan
1988: Paul
1992: Perot
1996: Perot
2000: Buchanan
2004: Kerry
2008: Baldwin
2012: Johnson

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« Reply #157 on: November 19, 2013, 09:33:22 PM »

I probably need to update these, and this time, I'll just leave blank the ones I don't know.

Mother(1962-)
1980: Carter (D)
1984: ?
1988: Dukakis (D) (She didn't actually vote because she was hospitalized after a car accident)
1992: Bush (R)
1996: Dole (R)
2000: ?
2004: ?
2008: Obama (D)
2012: Obama (D)

Maternal Grandmother (1936-)
1960: Kennedy (D)
1964: Johnson (D)
1968: Nixon (R) (Though she didn't like him much)
1972: Nixon (R)
1976: Carter (D)
1980: Carter (D)
1984: Reagan (R)
1988: ?
1992: ?
1996: ?
2000: ?
2004: Bush (R)
2008: McCain (R)
2012: Romney (R)

Mom's Younger Sister (1966-)
1984: Mondale (D)
1988: Dukakis (D)
1992: Clinton (D)
1996: Clinton (D)
2000: Gore (D)
2004: Bush (R)
2008: McCain (R)
2012: Romney (R)

Mom's Younger Brother (1969-)
1988: ?
1992: ?
1996: ?
2000: ?
2004: Bush (R)
2008: McCain (R)
2012: Romney (R) (He was sick on Election Day, so I don't know if he actually voted, but he supported Romney.)
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« Reply #158 on: November 19, 2013, 10:05:19 PM »

Mom (1984-Present): All republican, except Perot in 1992.
Dad (1984-Present): All republican
Grandma (1948-Present)(Mom): All republican
Grandpa (1948-Present)(Mom): All republican
Grandma (1960-2008)(Dad): All republican
Grandpa (1960-Present)(Dad): All republican
Sister: Hasn't voted

That's all I can tell you for sure. Exciting, I know! I do have many other family members (mostly cousins and uncles/aunts) who are liberals, so my family doesn't have this tradition of republican voting or anything. Unfortunately I don't have voting info from anybody else, so I can't fill anybody else in, otherwise I would.
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« Reply #159 on: November 19, 2013, 10:19:45 PM »

Mother: I think she was apathetic for awhile, she told me that the first political race she was interested in was the 1990 NC Senate race between Jesse Helms and Harvey Gantt.  I don't think she's ever voted Republican, and has been voting in Presidential elections since the 1990s.

Father:  I know he voted Democrat 2000-2012; before that, I don't know.

Grandmother (maternal): Voting since 1956, only voted Republican in 1972.  May have voted for Wallace in '68, I don't know.  She voted Democrat in every other election.

Grandmother (paternal): Only Republican she voted for was Eisenhower; Democrat in every election since then, I think.

Grandfather (paternal): I don't know.  He may have voted for a Dem back in the '60s but he has been very conservative at least since the '70s.  He has voted straight Republican since then.
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« Reply #160 on: November 20, 2013, 12:20:47 AM »
« Edited: November 20, 2013, 12:23:52 AM by Arturo Belano »

Father:

2004- Bush (a vote which he regrets)
2008- Obama (a vote which he also now regrets lol)
2012- Stein (write-in), and voted for Kerrey in the Senate race

Mother:

2008- Obama


My parents, who are immigrants from Guatemala, received their citizenship in 2002. My father is considerably more politically involved than my mother, whose political tendencies tend to be a mesh of apathy, cynicism, and anger towards the corporate establishment. My father voted for Bush in 2004 purely on his immigration stance. Nowadays, my father subscribes to a sort of left-wing socially-conservative populism and is currently disillusioned with both Obama and the Republicans.

I have no idea what some of other family members living here in America have voted for. But I assume that one of my cousins (your run-of-the-mill liberal), voted for Obama in 2008 and 2012.
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« Reply #161 on: November 20, 2013, 03:10:54 AM »

Mother:

1976: Jimmy Carter
1980: Ronald Reagan
1984: Ronald Reagan
1988: George Bush

1992: Ross Perot
1996: Bob Dole
2000: George W. Bush
2004: John Kerry
2008: John McCain
2012: Mitt Romney
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« Reply #162 on: November 20, 2013, 09:50:30 AM »

Uncle (1969-)
1988: Bush
1992: Bush
1996: Dole
2000: Buchanan
2004: Bush
2008: Obama
2012: Obama


Does anyone else find this hilarious? I want to know if there are any other Buchanan-Obama voters.
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« Reply #163 on: November 21, 2013, 12:44:43 AM »

How do you all know how aunts and uncles voted? I have no clue how any of my aunts and uncles voted. We were always brought up to never discuss politics during family dinners.
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« Reply #164 on: November 21, 2013, 08:06:05 PM »
« Edited: November 21, 2013, 11:08:49 PM by Councilor Hats »

(Edited after research)
My Parents, Canadians, have been ex-Pats since the 1980s, and have more or less refused to share their voting history. They have not voted since 1988

My Father, a Liberal leaning NDPer in his youth
1986: Out of Country, there after
1984 Fed: NDP, Ed Broadbent
1983 BC: BC NDP, Dave Barrett
1980 Fed: Liberal, Pierre Trudeau
1979 Fed: NDP, Ed Broadbent, Dave Barrett
1975 BC:BC NDP, Dave Barrett
1974 Fed: Liberal, Pierre Trudeau

My Mother, a Liberal from a Liberal family
1988 Fed: Liberal, John Turner
1986 Prov. Liberal, Art Lee or possibly Social Credit, Bill Vander Zalm (I hope not)
1984 Fed, Prov: Liberal, John Turner
1983 Prov: Social Credit, Bill Bennett (I'm guessing, she was anti-NDP and hardly anyone voted Liberal that year)

They'd both be Democrats if they were US Citizens

Fathers Family
- Father's Mother: Voted BC Liberal 2013, I'm fairly certain.  Otherwise at minimum anti-Harper
- Father's uncle: Old Montreal Anglo Corporate Exec. Is now and probably has been solidly LPC and PLQ Liberal since he moved their in the 1950s  
- Father's Sister and Younger Brother - both unionized, NDP voters, though the Uncle's wife is a known Conservative
- Family heritage: Historically NDP/CCF community in BC for many years. Anglo-Protestant Heritage, make likely Tories before depression

Mother's Family
-Mother's Mother - solid Federal Liberal really liked Pierre Trudeau. Never got over the NDP government in the 1990s, and seemed to be BC Liberal there after 2001 until she passed away in 2012
-Mother's Father - Solid Federal Liberal, personally disliked Jean Chretien, [called him 'Cretin']  but might have voted that way anyway
-Mother's Mother's Family: Prairie Norwegians.  probably Liberal/Progressive before the depression, definitely CCF/NDP until 1993, Reform/Conservative thereafter
-Mother's Mother's Brother: Family Friend of the Mannings, so probably Alberta Social Credit back in the day, and was asked to be Reform Candidate in the 1990s by Preston Manning
Mother's Father's Family - Land owning Anglo-protestants, but Liberals, this being BC where politics has always been an economic and not a social question
-Some of Mother's sisters, known BC Liberals
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« Reply #165 on: November 21, 2013, 08:53:26 PM »

Republican, Republican, Republican.  For all of my immediate and most of my distant family members. 

But are you the kinda South Carolinian whose family were Democrats back-in-the-day or are they of Yankee Republican stock?
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« Reply #166 on: November 21, 2013, 10:01:12 PM »

Republican, Republican, Republican.  For all of my immediate and most of my distant family members. 

But are you the kinda South Carolinian whose family were Democrats back-in-the-day or are they of Yankee Republican stock?

Some of my family were.  I had one great-grandfather who was a democrat. But the rest had pretty much moved to voting Republican by Eisenhower.  I don't know much further back than that, but I assume it's a safe to assume at least some of my relatives were in the almost 99% that voted for FDR.
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« Reply #167 on: November 21, 2013, 10:30:37 PM »

Republican, Republican, Republican.  For all of my immediate and most of my distant family members. 

But are you the kinda South Carolinian whose family were Democrats back-in-the-day or are they of Yankee Republican stock?

Some of my family were.  I had one great-grandfather who was a democrat. But the rest had pretty much moved to voting Republican by Eisenhower.  I don't know much further back than that, but I assume it's a safe to assume at least some of my relatives were in the almost 99% that voted for FDR.

then again, not that many people actually voted at all in the Deep South before 1952 ...
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« Reply #168 on: April 14, 2014, 07:13:00 PM »

I'll have to look up more details, but I know that from my grandpa (born 1930) to my dad (born 1956) to me, no one has voted for a Democrat.  I have, however, always seemed to be for the most liberal Republican in the primaries.
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« Reply #169 on: April 14, 2014, 07:17:46 PM »

I'll have to look up more details, but I know that from my grandpa (born 1930) to my dad (born 1956) to me, no one has voted for a Democrat.  I have, however, always seemed to be for the most liberal Republican in the primaries.
Who did you support in the 2012 Republican primaries?
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« Reply #170 on: April 14, 2014, 07:32:14 PM »
« Edited: April 14, 2014, 07:34:35 PM by Mordecai »

My father doesn't vote and doesn't seem to think too highly of either of the major parties, and probably views the Greens as being naive. I hadn't thought about this until now, but it's probably because he grew up in a country where there was only one political party and they controlled everything. He's pretty cynical.

My mother has voted Labor and Liberal (I honestly have no idea why, because she's a nurse and a union member). She voted for the Greens in this year's Western Australian Senate election because she was disillusioned with both the major parties but liked the Greens Senator Scott Ludlam.

My step-mother probably votes Labor, because she's a nurse and a union member. Last night she was criticizing the state Minister for Health for incompetence, saying that he should be sacked.

As for me, I first voted for Labor last year in the elections and then voted Labor again in this year's elections. I'm hoping to persuade my sister, who is coming of age, to vote either Labor or Greens. I'm getting quite a bit of help though from maniacs like Troy Buswell and Tony Abbott.
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« Reply #171 on: April 14, 2014, 09:48:18 PM »

My Dad:
2012: Santorum in the primary, Romney in the general
2008: Huckabee in the primary, McCain in the general (though he said only because Palin was on the ticket)
2004: Bush
2000: Bush
1996: Dole
1992: Bush Sr.
1988: Bush Sr.
1984: Reagan enthusiastically
1980: Reagan enthusiastically
1976: Presuming Ford
1972: Presuming Nixon

My Mom:
2012: Not sure in primary, Romney in general
2008: Huckabee in primary, McCain in general
2004: Bush
2000: Bush
(Probably straight R since she married my dad)

My Sister:
2012: Paul in Primaries, guessing Romney in general.
2008: Most likely McCain, not completely sure.
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« Reply #172 on: April 15, 2014, 12:42:47 AM »

My dad- 2012 Romney.
2008-Obama
2004&2000 Bush
1996-Clinton
1992-Clinton
1988-Bush
1984 Reagan
1980 Reagan.
My mom 1988-2004 Didnt vote.
2008-Brian Moore.
2012-Gary Johnson.
 
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« Reply #173 on: April 15, 2014, 06:07:11 AM »

My dad- 2012 Romney.
2008-Obama
2004&2000 Bush
1996-Clinton
1992-Clinton
1988-Bush
1984 Reagan
1980 Reagan.
My mom 1988-2004 Didnt vote.
2008-Brian Moore.
2012-Gary Johnson.
 

She voted for a socialist and then a libertarian??
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« Reply #174 on: April 15, 2014, 06:52:13 AM »

My father has never voted because he's always been on drugs.

My mother's first vote in a presidential election was in 2012, when she voted for Romney. I was more than a little upset.
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