What type of voter angers you the most?

[Pushed To The Left]

[GOPBasher]

1. Definitely the single-issue, or "cuture-war" voters.

They vote against their own economic self-interests. It's really frustrating.

[AlCzervik]

2. the voter who isn't, the citizen who doesn't bother paying attention

at all.

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

3. The Ones That Vote For Alito n/t

[B Calm]

20. As a voter, I'll be watching my senators to see who votes for him!

[Zenlitened]

4. Progressive-minded people who don't vote.

I'm convinced they're the key, far more so than the alleged "moderate swing voters" everyone keeps talking about.

If we can figure out why the disaffected aren't voting, and bring them into the process, I think we could could totally reshape the electoral landscape.

[journalist3072]

5. Voters who don't take the time to educate themselves

Before they go to the polls. They end up voting against their own best interests by not taking the time to educate themselves on where the candidates truly stand on the issues, and what's at stake.

[u4ic]

13. I agree

Every member of my family votes Conservative, except for me.

They are all good people, for the most part (and having a disabled sibling, they understand more about the social services that are needed than most) but they buy the crap about the Cons being about 'family', and don't agree with gay marriage. Everything else they stand for screams NDP.

The Liberals are ok with gay marriage, as are the NDP, but the Cons are against it.

One fucking issue, that's what it comes down to. And they will vote Conservative. :banghead:

They overuse the healthcare system (every friggin sniffle and they and their kids are off to the doctor), and don't even begin to understand the repercussions of bringing private health care to Canada. Which the Cons so want to do.

They are so many issues, but it all boils down to gay marriage for them. :grr:

[Nutmegger]

6. People who don't vote at all

piss the crap out of me!!! I'm a student and always get comments that I'm "too political" - youth apathy is sickening. iPods cannot save us from this evil regime!!!

[leftstreet]

Voters who say they voted for A because "I didn't like the look of" B

They can't tell you what the candidates represented. They just "American Idol-ed" their vote.

[MADem]

7. All of them are annoying, and the ones who don't vote at all are

like fingers on a blackboard as well.

[graywarrior]

8. The non voter who bitches.

[CoffeeCat]

9. I would add....the people who don't care enough to vote at all...

Anyone who did not vote in the last election is not doing their patriotic duty, in my opinion.

If you are not paying attention to politics, and what is happening to our democracy and our Constitution---then you have lost your marbles. The stakes are so high right now. We are on the edge of losing so much.

How can people not pay attention.

The category of voters who bothers me the most---is the "Aww...politics is just all games. I'm not voting because I don't have time...or I have to work...or I'm not interested..or I don't even know who's running."

I can't stand people who don't tune in.

We all need to be paying attention and voting. Otherwise, the lunatic Jesus-trailer-hitch brigade gets to decide who sits in the White House and in Congress.

Wake up America!

[sakabatou]

10. Voters who don't vote but complain about an issue that was voted upon

[proud patriot]

11. Single issue voters and here's why

they are easily misled .

[XemaSab]

12. Ignorant liberals

People who are *so* far to the left that they see no difference between democrats and republicans, and people who are *way* beyond building viable solutions and are into the realm of hatred, ignorance, and/or fascism.

To give an example: people who equate ALL logging with clearcutting old growth redwoods, or who try to challenge the forest practice rules without knowing the ecological basis for practices like leaving behind slash.

That shit really bugs because these people should KNOW better.

[BlueIris]

25. Ah, yes. Another term for those folks might be...

lefty freepers. Can't stand that shit. Absolutism is just as ineffectual, repulsive and dangerous when it's embraced by "our" Party's members as when the RW employs the philosophy. I hate it when they try to dignify their ignorance with the term "liberal." They're ignorant.

[OKDem08]

14. Those who are never reluctant to voice their opinions

but never bother to vote.

[hopeisaplace]

15. People who don't recognize or even know they are Liberal

cause they don't understand the fundamental differences between right and left..

like a person who struggles to make ends meet voting conservative?? gheesh..then wonder
why their problems don't get "fixed" and prices go up, and services get cut..
etc...

Even though my life may be "ok" in terms of not needing services, etc...I still vote
for the party offering a social safety system for others..cause those "others" could
be people I love in my family too some day or I picture the face of hungry child in
a tiny little apartment with parents barely surviving - or I picture a little child
going to school in the morning hungry (these visuals keep me thinking, "what's best
for those in most need in our society", and that's HOW I VOTE)..



edit: typo

[question everything]

16. It does not make sense to be made at single issue Republicans and not

at single issue Democrats.

How many here will withhold their votes from, say, Joe Lieberman because he is not adamantly against the war in Iraq?

Or Clinton, for the same reason?

Yes, Iraq can be a single issue just as abortion and gay marriage is.

I have been posting several times recently, calling for a real platform for 2006 and for 2008 which does not center around Iraq. Rove is already planning his campaign and start getting the troops back is part of it. The idea is that if not later this year, certainly by 2008 the Iraq will be a non-issue.

About the poll specifically, I selected Democrats who vote for a third party - like Nader in 2000 - because they do not like the party candidate. And this is why we will have Alito as a supreme court justice - with or without a filibuster.

What voters have to realize is that we do not vote only for a person - Gore, Kerry, Dean, Clinton - but for a platform, a point of view on how we want to run the country, on the supreme court.

Gore would have carried Florida if Nader did not win so many votes. Yes, even with all the irregularities. These and other technicality would not matter if all those Nader votes went to Gore.

And I know many Democrats, mostly DUers, will sit home if the nominee is Joe Lieberman. No, I am not promoting him. But his Supreme Court nominees would be better than any coming from a Republican president.

[MrSlayer]

17. The voters that don't follow until the last minute.

And then vote based on some stupid ad or whatever, never knowing what the candidates actually stand for.

[BlueIris]

18. Elitist, pro-eugenics, pro-corptocracy assholes who only vote Democrat

so they can retain the right to try to force their wives and girlfriends to end their pregnancies if they "accidentally" knock them up (again), among all manner of other godawful reasons to "support" our side. Usually, they just think that voting Democrat and calling themselves liberals is the better, or "smarter" (read: more social acceptable) way to effect their version of fascist social control than voting Republican is. Sick bastards.

[recoveringrepublican]

19. voters like my mother-in-law, votes for another country's interest

she is very liberal, but is a registered republican so she can vote for Mike Bilirakis (and now his son most likely) in the primaries (as if he ever had any reason to fear). She is from Greece. Ask her why such a liberal person would ever vote for a republican (seriously, this is the only one she will vote for) and she will answer "because he is Greek, and I know I can count on him to try help Greece (in regards to Turkey) out".

[Douglas Carpenter]

21. voters who like the candidate -- and have no curiosity about issues

and positions that candidate represents. Some of them will proudly proclaim, "I don't vote for the party I vote for the "man".

What do they think this is a race for junior high class president?
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Borrowed from:

LynnTheDem

a super-majority of Americans are liberal in all but name

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20051107/alterman

Public opinion polls show that the majority of Americans embrace liberal rather than conservative positions...
http://www.poppolitics.com/articles/2002-04-16-liberal.shtml

The vast majority of Americans are looking for more social support, not less...
http://www.prospect.org/print/V12/7/borosage-r.html

http://people.umass.edu/mmorgan/commstudy.html


http://www.cegelisforcongress.com/contribute

[WernhamHogg]

22. Ummmmmm...

All of the above! ;)

[DanCa]

23. The voter who doesn't vote rep or dem but bitches at the democrat party

If you dont like the party and not try and "fix" I.E. voting out "Dinos" why complain that there ineffectual and all the boring yadda yadda yadda.

[Swamp Rat]

24. Other: ANYONE who doesn't bother to vote. n/t

[DemGirl7]

26. Those who vote based upon the smears they hear

The example I will use is my Brother-in-law. In both 2000 and 2004 he voted for *, but in 2004 he was originally going to vote for Kerry, but decided to vote for Bush for one reason. Because he believed the smears of Kerry by the Swift Boat Liars and the shit they said about Kerry. When he told me that he voted that way, I was speechless, because I use to think that he had a working brain inside his head, but I guess I was wrong.