Who is your family voting for in the GE?

[cynatnite]

If Hillary got the most delegates me, my sister, my mother and grandmother would all vote for her. My husband liked Edwards and my daughter leaned toward Obama.

As it is right now, my sister and grandmother definitely won't vote for Obama. IMO, it's because of his color. They haven't outright said it, but it's one of those things that I can tell.

My mother...I think she might not vote at all. She doesn't like Obama, but when I told her that McCain was anti-choice it changed her perception of him to such a degree that she may sit at home.

Me, husband and daughters will vote for the Dem nominee...no matter who that may be...which will probably be Obama. :)

[kerry-is-my-prez]

1. They always vote Repub - so I know the answer to that....

sigh....

[NJSecularist]

2. My Dad is a hardcore Republican - and he will vote for Obama.

He's voted straight ticket Republican all his life, but he hates McCain.

[msallied]

19. I see a lot of that. Hardcore Republicans feel rejected by Bush politics.

Because when it comes down to it, there really is nothing truly "Republican" about the Bushes. They aren't fiscally responsible and they're fascists who care little about individual rights. They're sort of a conglomeration of everything that's bad about BOTH parties. It's freaky. lol

[Whalestoe]

41. My dad is a really hardcore Republican...

And he will still vote for McCain over Obama. My mom, however, she will vote for Obama with a bit more talking to. I'm the black sheep of the family. The only sane one.:o

[Epiphany4z]

3. most my family

even republicans are voting for Obama

[NJmaverick]

4. My father will vote McCain, he's a long time Republican

My mother is a long time Democrat, but she refuses to vote. She is too upset for Obama ruining her plans for revenge on the male sex, with the nomination of Hillary.

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[NeedleCast]

5. I come from a long line of Texas Conservatives

I got better. They didn't. I have converted a few of them though. It is, however, very much a generational thing. All the older folks in the family will vote McCain. I have 13 cousins (on my mom's side) and about half of them will probably vote for Obama. My sister and I are both voting for Obama.

[SteppingRazor]

6. My parents are going McCain, no question.

I'm working on my mom, but there's not much hope there, and zero for my dad. Love'em both, but they're die-hard Republicans of the country-club variety.

My wife, brother and I can all be depended on to vote for the D.

My mom-in-law is going to take some convincing when/if it's Obama because she was adamant about Hillary.

My dad-in-law would vote for a black man for president just as soon as hell froze over -- he's a Republican of the blue-collar trucker variety. ;)

[featherman]

7. Extended family of 37, all DEMS but one, all Obama

except for maybe one GOP brother-in-law who is moderate and probably thinks McCain is just fine. Voters in this "Dem bloc" range from my 93 year old mother to an 18 year old step-granddaughter and are spread all around the country and overseas.

[Fresh_Start]

8. My husband and I were Edwards

I'll vote for the nominee, my husband wants to do protest vote (3rd party)
My mom (normally Dem) hates both Obama/Clinton and will vote McCain
My daughter will vote Obama
My SIL will not vote

[PoliticalAmazon]

34. My husband and I were for Edwards, too.....

But now we are both enthusiastic supporters of Obama. We are of the age that we remember JFK, and Obama has many of JFK's good qualities.

My daughter in Hawaii will vote for Obama, as will my BIL in CT. My quintessinally yuppie SIL and her husband in Orange County will probably vote for Starbucks.

I have two female friends in their early 60s who I believe are voting for Hillary, but we just don't talk about politics now, so I don't know if they've switched.

[iamthebandfanman]

9. you know, ive actually gotten my grandmother

to say shell vote for obama over mccain. lets just hope she keeps to that. after hearing some of the racist crap shes said in this primary i dunno.

my mom also said she was going to vote for obama in the GE.

[DearAbby]

10. I come from a long line of Democrats....

there are a couple who have strayed...falling for the Terror lie, and backing the current horse because that is what you do when a war is on :(. They have since changed their minds, realizing they were duped. It looks good in the DearAbby Family.

[lojasmo]

12. We'll all vote for Obama.

Except (possibly) for my grand mother, who is a bit racist.

[ErinBerin84]

13. My older sister doesn't vote.

My mom is voting for Obama (she originally liked Edwards, she really dislikes Clinton), my dad never votes, even though he really should since he is pretty much a Democrat from what I can tell (he doesn't like the Clintons though). He just has a bad attitude towards all politicians in general. But the other day, he randomly said "I would really like to see what a Obama presidency would be like. I really would." and sounded really positive, so I'm hoping that I can get him to vote. Both of my grandfathers who voted for Bush are voting Democrat and like Obama this year. We are in a blue state, I would feel a little better about all of this if we were a swing state, but I guess everything helps. I was the only one who voted in the primary.

One of my grandfathers who is voting for Obama is um, kind of racist. He reminds me of Pat Buchanan sometimes. He was originally for Mitt Romney and always hated McCain. He is voting Democrat only because he has recently decided that the war is bullshit. I feel kind of silly saying this, but...the NRA called for him the other day (he has never owned a gun, I don't know why they called for him. They called a couple of times, and he was never home), and I said "Stop calling here! We are not an NRA household!" I'm sure she told all of her colleagues about the liberal wacko who she was just on the phone with. Of these, I think only one of my grandfathers possibly, as well as myself, would vote for Hillary in the general if we had to.

[msallied]

14. My whole family is Obama. Even my conservative parents!

Of course, they voted for Bill Clinton in 96. They do have some common sense in these matters. If anything, my parents are a mish-mash of political beliefs. They just want someone trustworthy and honorable in office, and they see that in Obama.

[Texas Hill Country]

15. Hillary.

[Bluzmann57]

16. My parents will vote for the Democratic nominee

My sister likely will, my ex wife likely will not vote and it's hard to say about my sister's SO. He leans Dem, but he has some repub talking points. I think my sis will win him over though. My oldest son (unfortunately) isn't real involved in politics and my daughter will likely vote Obama or (reluctantly) Clinton. Not real sure about cousins. I know one will vote for McCain because he is a staunch repub. Poor misguided guy. I will vote for the Democratic nominee, no matter who he or she may be. I still think that any Dem is better than any repub, except maybe Zell Miller.

[xxqqqzme]

17. For the Democratic Nominee (me & my kids)

rest of the fam, on my side, vote publican.

[mmonk]

18. All of us for the democratic party nominee.

I'm aware of what's happened to this country and the further problems a McCain administration would bring. I'm not stupid nor ignorant enough to contribute to his presidential bid in any way.

[PBS Poll-435]

20. My parents will vote for McCain.

They would have voted for Hillary though.

They HATE McCain! (Or at least my Mom does. She has got stories about John & Cindy)

[SoonerPride]

21. Me and my partner are voting for Obama.

We voted for Hillary on Super Tuesday.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

22. My husband will vote for Obama if he is the nominee

but he won't vote for Clinton--personal reasons dealing with something that happened to us in Arkansas. I will vote for the Democratic nominee. In talking to my soon-to-be 90 year-old mother, I think she's voting Democratic, as is my brother and his family. Don't know that they care who the nominee is.

[Cant trust em]

23. The democratic nominee. NT

[panader0]

24. No family members old ehough to vote

Though all my teens are Obama fans, and I may have my girlfriend convinced to vote Obama, but she is fron Texas and won't revael her favorite.

[Barack_America]

25. My family is all impressed with Obama and will be voting for him in November.

In Michigan and Florida no less! ;)

[dana_b]

26. immediate family- all Obama

brother's family - all Obama
sister's family - McCain (I don't know of she was dropped on her head as a child)
uncle's family - McCain (Orange County, CA. Repubs)

Hillary, we got nothing for ya.

[NRaleighLiberal]

27. My wife, two daughters and I Dem (preferably Obama). My mom - Dem.

My wife's mom - Dem. My wife's sister, her husband - Dem. My brother and his wife - Repub (Florida Fundies).

[Throd]

28. About 70% will vote for McCain by my math

[hopein08]

29. Not Obama, or anyone really...

My mom has a long list of reasons that she won't vote for Obama, and no, not one of them is race related. She claims that she'll vote for McCain but I'm trying to talk her into just not voting.

My dad, I think, said he won't vote at all.

My sister volunteered for Hillary's campaign and is quite adamant that she won't vote for Obama under any circumstances. She, and apparently most of the people she goes to school with, are refusing to "fall in line" behind Obama and won't vote at all.

And I won't vote at all. I did vote Hillary in the primary even though I vowed for six years that I wouldn't vote for her for anything. She is better than Obama. Neither candidate (as in McCain and Obama)stands for the things I want. And I can't pick the lesser of two evils. Or maybe I won't.

On a rather dreary side note, my sister's fiance is a Republican who lectures her on proper politics based on the rants of Rush Limbaugh who he apparently listens to regularly.

[murielm99]

30. My family will vote for the Democratic nominee. n/t

[WeDidIt]

31. Most will go for Obama

though there is one small wing in Kentucky who are Mcainiacs.

[rucky]

32. We're all Democrats, here. n/t

[griffi94]

33. my parents will vote mccain

my grandparents who are FDR democrats will probably not vote.
my mil is for obama. i'm not sure how my wife will vote she was for hillary but will probly go with the democratic nominee.

[RainDog]

35. My 2 sons, first time voters, will vote for Obama. Not Clinton.

Me too.

My siblings are all southern fundies so they are hopeless.

[Hippo_Tron]

36. Mom liked Clinton but she and Dad will vote Obama

Grandmother has voted Democratic since long before I was born. Unfortunately she read that e-mail about the closet Muslim bullshit and believed it. Frankly my mom says she's also a tad bit racist even though she won't admit it. I think I can convince her to vote for Obama.

[Hippo_Tron]

37. Dupe n/t

[FredScuttle]

38. My ultra-conservative, quasi-bigoted mother will vote for Obama

She doesn't trust him completely, but she read both his books (before I did!) and admires him a great deal. She thinks McCain would be Bush's third term and she won't even mention Bush's name out of anger.

I have to believe there is a huge number of Republicans like my mom who feel sold out, embarassed and disgusted with the Bush adminstration will take out their anger at the ballot box in November, by either staying home or switching over.

[demo dutch]

39. With sexism rampant in this country, I won't vote for the male Dem sorry! & neither will my husband

[cynatnite]

43. Will you vote for McCain then?

He's anti-choice and supports taking rights away from women. I agree that sexism is rampant, but not voting for the male Dem nominee is like cutting off your nose to spite your face, IMO.

[demo dutch]

53. This country is soo back wards, it can't save itself. Besides, Dems will most probably

sweep Congress, but lose the WH. As a result, McCain will be a lame duck and won't get anything done. This would be bad for the country but not so bad for the world.And the country will once again get what it deserves. We'll have another try the next go around, and maybe just maybe we'll actually have a better Dem nominee and maybe we'll actually have a DIRECT democracy in this country instead of this delegate nonsense! We are after all only number 17 on the list!

[cynatnite]

59. McCain runs the war and he'll appoint judges so Roe vs Wade can be repealed...

Are you voting for McCain? You never answered the question.

[demo dutch]

62. No, but then again it doesn't matter because my vote usually doesn't get counted anyway!

[cynatnite]

65. Cynicism makes you impotent, doesn't it?

You're just going to lament at how horrible and useless everything is so you won't have to get up and do something about it.

[demo dutch]

69. I've done my share over the years and I'm done! If the Dems can't get it together &

manage to come up with a decent candidate, the people of this country will vote another idiot into office like they did in 2000 and 2004, I say the country deserves what it gets!

My life is fine, I have many other options, including going back to Europe where Democracies actually work properly. Again, the US is #17, and the preceding 15 democracies are in Europe and Canada are listed above the US. So, it won't make a whole lot of difference to me, but you gotta feel for the millions who continue to be left behind by the political machine. It will take FDR politics to change more half a century of damage done to this country and if you think this Dem nominee is going to be that person you're dreaming!

[cynatnite]

71. So, that's a yes n/t

[demo dutch]

72. No not really, I'm sitting this one out!

[cynatnite]

74. n/t

[beachmom]

48. There is rampant racism down here in Georgia, so I find your comment pathetic.

You don't even have proof for your assertions. And, no, Tweety is not good enough, as I will raise you Pat Buchanan. If Obama lost the nomination fair and square to Hillary (as in lost the delegate count), I would vote for her, and not bitch about "rampant racism", even though it is right here in metro Atlanta. Unlike you, I have a concrete example:

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/05/15/politics/main4098542.shtml

I mean, are you really so dumb as to repeat this "talking point" which amounts to the worst kind of sore loserdom I have ever seen!!

[demo dutch]

54. Yes racism is rampant too. What can I say this country is terribly backwards, but I am

entitled to my opinion, I happen to think that Obama is a sorry excuse for a candidate. I find it amazing that after 8 yrs of Bush, these are the candidates the Dems come with!

[Arugula Latte]

50. Yeah, that makes a lot of sense. You'll enable McCain to overturn reproductive rights.

Cut off your nose to spite your face.

How utterly pathetic.

[demo dutch]

51. Nah, slim chance overturning Roe vs. Wade. Won't happen! This country deserves what

it gets, just like it did in 2000 and 2004. The US is just soo backwards, it can't save itself!

[Arugula Latte]

56. Wow, you really are up on your high horse.

A lot of people are fighting hard to get the Democratic candidate into the White House ... if for nothing else to make THREE or FOUR Supreme Court appointments. Obama wasn't their first or second choice, in many cases, but they can recognize the greater good and they support him. Kerry wasn't my first choice, but I voted and donated for him. The supporters of the other candidates have been gracious when their candidate was defeated, but a group of Hillary supporters (not all!) are acting like spoiled brats.

I get it. You don't give a shit, because your self-righteous pity party is more important to you than the future of the country.

[demo dutch]

57. Actually I am amazed that after 8 yrs of Bush these are the candidates the Dems come up with, What a

joke! The future of the country? Please!! let me laugh out loud right now!. The future has long been lost for the US! May I remind you that we are only 17th on the list of democracies in the world! Maybe the next time around the Dems will come up with some credible candidates, and actually pass meaningful campaign finance reform, change the constitution and make this country into a DIRECT democracy by getting rid of the ridiculous delegate system by which we elect our billion dollar presidents.

[Arugula Latte]

58. Well, it's all subjective. I think Hillary is a joke, but I would've held my nose and voted for her

if I had to. Which, thankfully, I won't have to do.

[demo dutch]

61. Well good for you, let's hope your vote actually gets counted, mine usually isn't!

[Greyskye]

68. It certainly isn't getting any help from you.

:eyes:

[NeedleCast]

63. So You Should Probably Change your Icon then

Unless you're voting for McCain.

[demo dutch]

64. I'm done voting until the Dems come up with a decent candidate, besides my vote

usually doesn't get counted anyway!

[Rosa Luxemburg]

40. OBAMA only

no one would vote GOP in this house. Never! HOw could anyone in their right mind vote for McCain.

[Forkboy]

42. My mother will vote Dem, my sister most likely repub, my father not at all.

[Arkansas Granny]

44. Myself and two grown children voting for the Democratic nominee.

[latinolatteliberal]

45. Obama, of course.

I convinced my mom to support Obama before Super Tuesday. She was leaning toward Clinton before I started talking about the candidates. His speeches following the early contests convinced her. She and I did some canvassing together the week before California voted. Neither one of us had volunteered for a politician before. My sister hasn't gotten her citizenship yet, but she would vote for Obama if she could. Both my dad and my sister's bf do what their respective partners tell them to do (go fig), so there's two more Obama votes.

[beachmom]

46. My Independent family is all voting for Obama:

Me, my husband, my Mom, my Dad, my sister. I am not sure about my brother in law. My hubby's Mom is a foreigner who can't vote. It is not an assumption that they would vote for the Democrat; however, they are this time.

[democrattotheend]

47. I am pretty sure my entire extended family will vote for Obama in the GE

Except my libertarian aunt out in California. She never votes for Democrats.

Most of us voted for Obama in the primaries too...my whole immediate family did, as well as my grandparents and my aunt and uncle. My extended family out in Phoenix was split...my 2nd cousin voted for Obama but his mother and grandmother were for Clinton. I don't know how the rest of the family out there voted, but I am pretty sure they will all vote for either Democrat in the GE.

[Arugula Latte]

49. Obama all the way.

Nobody in my extended family or my husband's extended family likes Hillary, with the exception of my sister and my mother in law (who was ardently for the Clintons but is now leaning more toward Obama).

He is the first candidate I can remember that practically everybody in both extended families is ENTHUSIASTIC to vote for.

[Bluenorthwest]

52. My entire family will vote for the Democratic nominee

Both sides, all sides and sides-in-law. The kids, the elders. Democratic. Glad to say. Most backed Obama in the Primaries, with some exceptions in Illinois and CA. The exceptions who backed Clinton or Kucinich for a moment or to the end will all vote for Senator Obama, and those who backed Obama would do the same, all of them. The Nominee gets the votes.

I visited cousins I had not seen since I was a teen a couple of years back. They did not let me in the house until I told them I was a Democrat as an adult. They said if I wasn't they would have been polite, but kept the good stuff for after I was gone. " My pie is not for Republicans" said my cousin. We have no Republicans and we don't want any.

[That Is Quite Enough]

55. My family's all pro-dem in the GE.

Doesn't matter who wins the nomination.

I used to hear some of the "If Clinton wins, I'll vote McCain." BS from them, but I talked them out of it.

[janx]

60. OBAMA--and my brothers are INDIES! n/t

[Eurobabe]

66. All Obama voters, 12 of us in immediate family

[Greyskye]

67. All of the immediate family is for Obama - and some BIG surprises

I posted this back at the end of March - it's the last entry in my journal. The short version is that even my hardcore republican relatives in Idaho that have never voted for a Democrat in their lives will be voting for Obama. Check out the entry if you have a minute, it's a good story. :hi:

I don't know about the Idaho relatives, but all of the rest of the clan seems to be down with whoever the Dem nominee is, even if they are favoring Obama now.

[mitchum]

70. My wife,mother, father, sister, and myself are voting for Obama

[Geek_Girl]

73. I think most of us are voting for Obama

not sure about my dad and inlaws they tend to vote repuke. Although my Dad did say he liked Obama.

[TheFarseer]

75. My whole family is voting McCain

except me.