Seriously in your everyday life do you care if someones democrat or republican?

Question

When you vote why not vote for the person instead of the party?

Answer 1

I do vote for the person. It just so happens that most of the candidates I vote for think the same way I do. Since these candidates eventually become our leaders, it does affect everyday life. Try telling the widow or mother of an Iraq casualty that her everyday life is not affected daily by a republican. Try telling ENRON and WORLD COM stockholders that their everyday lives are not affected by poor fiscal policy. Try telling the people in the unemployment office that their everyday lives are not affected because their jobs were outsourced to a foreign country and they got laid off, or it was just cheaper to hire an illegal alien.

Answer 2

The "person" believes things that are going to effect our lives, and those "beliefs" are more often than not...tied to their party.

I vote Republican but if a Democrat were to run that opposed their party on a great number of issues I care about then I would consider them to vote for. This is very rare indeed however. The only one I have ever supported was Bob Casey (Sr.) in Pennsylvania back in the late 80's because the Republican was liberal and Casey was the social conservative (I could not vote for him however because I lived in New Jersey...but I did alot of door knocking for him...along with other fellow Republicans). (There were some good southern Democrats years ago...like Sam Nunn, Zell Miller, and the like).

I believe the best approach is to vote on the issues.

Answer 3

Because the person has very little to do with it. Each party has an agenda, their agenda decides what issues will the get the most attention during their time in office. For instance, I work in Human Services, I need democrats in office to keep up my livelihood and the lives of those that I provide care for. Democratic issues apply to my day to day life. That doesn't mean that I think that Republicans are wrong or immoral (okay, sometimes) but, their side of the issue is far less beneficial for me.

Answer 4

No, but politics is essentially a taboo subject!

I find staunch Republicans i have nothing to talk with about! And I don't waste my breath.

Generally, people who get married have the same political philosophy as their spouse.

What has always interested me is that so few no anything about politics, or even have life experience generally, that they filter those things out that doesn't "fit" their philosophy, no matter that they really don't know what it is! It is generally their pocketbook they vote!

Selective reasoning is more rampant than critical reasoning. Most people can't, or don't have the time!

People do vote the person, but they also get stuck with the party! George Washington didn't think very much of them!

"It serves always to distract the public councils and enfeeble
the public administration. It agitates the community with
illfounded jealousies and false alarms; kindles the animosity
of one part against another; foments occasionally riot and
insurrection. It opens the door to foreign influence and
corruption, which find a facilitated access to the government
itself through the channels of party passion. Thus the policy
and the will of one country are subjected to the policy and
will of another.

There is an opinion that parties in free countries are useful
checks upon the administration of government, and serve to keep
alive the spirit of liberty. This within certain limits is
probably true; and in governments of a monarchial cast
patriotism may look with indulgence, if not with favor, upon
the spirit of party. But in those of the popular character, in
governments purely elective, it is a spirit not to be encouraged.
From their natural tendency it is certain there will always be
enough of that spirit for every salutary purpose; and there
being constant danger of excess, the effort ought to be by force
of public opinion to mitigate and assuage it. A fire not to be
quenched, it demands a uniform vigilance to prevent its bursting
into a flame, lest, instead of warming, it should consume.

It is important, likewise, that the habits of thinking in a
free country should inspire caution in those intrusted with
its administration to confine themselves within their
respective constitutional spheres, avoiding in the exercise
of the powers of one department to encroach upon another.
The spirit of encroachment tends to consolidate the powers
of all the departments in one, and thus to create, whatever
the form of government, a real despotism." George Washinton's Farewell Address, 1796

Answer 5

I do vote for the person and not the party.

As far as people in my everyday life I don't care if they are dem or rep so long as they don't put it all in my face and try to convince me that they are right and I am wrong. I don't mind a conversation from both sides (that's educational) but in your face all one sided is a bit much.

Answer 6

I always vote for the person because I make the time to research the issues. This is too much work for many people so they just pick the party they feel best represents their beliefs.

Answer 7

I do vote the person. I have not ever found a self serving, personal freedom limiting, self proclaimed fiscal conservative spendthrift, unreasoning ideologue that I could vote for. They are usually Republicans

Answer 8

I agree 100%.

Voting a party is the lazy person's way to vote.

Answer 9

I don't care. I do vote for the person not the party. Most of them are lying idiots anyway.

Answer 10

I see very little difference in the major political parties, maybe if I were rich and needed more tax breaks, or if I was poor and needed welfare reform but I'm stuck in the middle and will vote for who I like running not for what party I'm involved in