Help! my first time voting, my Mom's a conservative and my Dad's a liberal, what should I do?

Question

Actually, I'm the Conserv. It's my daughter asking the question.

Answer 1

I think that the best thing for you to do would be to go to the County and pick up the election information reguarding the issues on the ballot and make sure that she is an INFORMED voter. You and your husband sit down seperatley and discuss the policies with her and let her ultimatley make her decision. Don't ask her how she voted, don't influance her vote, just make sure that she votes informed....and conservative! LOL.....

Answer 2

First you might want to take a little quiz to see where your own personal politics lie. Sorry I couldn't find an interactive form of this, but if you go to this link you can take a super-short quiz and it'll tell you where you kind of sit on the liberal/conservative (i.e. "democrat"/"republican" spectrum:
http://www.cs.uu.nl/wais/html/na-dir/libertarian/quiz.html

Another good thing might be to see if you can find a local paper, like a free weekly paper in big cities. They often publish an issue where they discuss local politicians and issues that are to be voted for, so it's a pretty good way to get a brief overview. Researching the issues just independently is good, but hard and time-consuming. Keep in mind the paper is not unbiased, but will have a liberal or conservative slant (one local paper here has on the cover "Replublicans Effing Suck - Vote and Kick Them Out" - pretty easy to guess which way they slant). So maybe try to find a couple of them, if possible a "republican" one and a "democrat" one.
Good luck. Yay for you, rocking the vote!

Answer 3

Based upon what would be best for the country, she should vote conservative. Unfortunately, the Republican majority does not represent conservatism anymore; they're all a bunch of liars who only use "conservatism" as a guise for their own agenda, or lack of agenda. I do think generally you should just vote for the lesser of two evils, and so in my opinion she should just vote for the conservative even if he's a dirtbag and just hold her nose. But, yes, she should vote by what her heart tells her, so it's your job as the mother to instill in her the conservative values you claim to believe in. Either way, American politics needs a MAJOR reformation, otherwise we're going to end up like Europe and the liberals will win and we'll be ruled by Muslim extremists.

Answer 4

Make a concerted attempt to read both views. The Web is excellent for this.

Use a Web Search and first type in Liberal Publications, when you are done exploring, again Search, type in Conservative Publications.

The first sites on most search lists are the sites with the most hits (visitors).

Make your choice based on what YOU, not anyone else, thinks.

But, ALWAYS VOTE

There is a new site perported to be an attempt at a balanced view, I haven't seen it yet, but if you like check it out , it is called
hotsoup.com

Answer 5

If you are asking questions for your daughter, it is quite clear she should not vote period. Common if you cant type your own question on Yahoo what chance does your Nation have. Unless she like someone doing all her talking and thinking for her and in that case that would make her a conservative.

Answer 6

Study the candidates and their issues and go with the party that best represents your belief, you shouldn't base your voting on what others think. My mom is a republican, my brother a conservative and I'm a democrat and we all get along just fine, we have some interesting debates but we all have our seperate views that we don't let the other influence our voting.

Answer 7

We are a voting family, we celebrated our daughters 18th birthday (they are twins) by taking them to the library and registering them to vote. We taught them to vote in every elections, no matter how small. While they were away at college, they voted by absentee ballet unless they came home to vote.

They vote issues based on their preferences, whats important to them, not to us. Our politics aren't their politics, the issues for parents aren't going to be the same for young adults in most cases.

Your daughter should study up on the issues, and choose her candidates based on her best judgment. She should ask both of you why you are choosing the candidates you are, but then she needs to make up her own mind.

Vote and preserve your right as an American citizen to complain about what a lousy job the government is doing.

Answer 8

Do what you think is right - Obviously your parents have had some impression on you as they were raising you - but ultimately they have their vote, and you have yours - you can vote anyway you please and that's why your voter registration card was given to you and not to them so that they can vote for you - you have to vote for what you truly believe in (or the lesser of the two evils - with the way it works now days) - if your parents press you to vote their way - you simply vote how you wish to and tell them that your vote is private - this is why they only allow one person at the voting booth at a time - if they still press for your vote - tell them that you will tell them your vote only after they listen to the sordid details of your sex life for the past week/month/year whatever and I bet they'll leave you alone.

Answer 9

Didn't you raise your daughter with encouragement to think for herself?
Gather the brochures that are available or websites which discuss the issues and stance of candidates in both parties. Surely she will develop some opinions of her own based on the facts and then decide for herself how SHE thinks she will vote to best represent her own convictions.

Answer 10

Pick a set of topics that you think matter and check to see what your canidate's stances are on those issues.

Also look for canidates that promise too much. Many canidates play this game of committing themselves to too many topics in election season and then ignoring it the rest of the time, since they don't have time anyway.

Unless you are dependant on others making your decisions for you, don't vote with a party. Be independant.