Here are the results from the last poll:
Do you identify with a political party?
Yes - 45% (26 votes)
No - 21% (12 votes)
I used to - 33% (19 votes)
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
Poll results: Do you identify with a political party?
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Do we interpret the "I used to" voters as "independents" (or non-affiliated) as I am?
In an area like Southcentral PA, I think that is significant. I'd like to see all of us drop the team name label and simply evaluate ideas and people over some political ideology.
Fred,
Re: "I'd like to see all of us drop the team name label and simply evaluate ideas and people over some political ideology", nice thought idealistically, but we're too far into the woods to realistically get out of that any time soon. The only hope is that voters are intelligent enough to consider issues rather than allure of personalities and vote conscience rather than ideology. GS
Gary,
I agree that independence from political party affliation will not happen anytime soon. But we have to take the first step sometime.........why not now?
Granted the transition would be slow and won't happen in our lifetimes, but I'm willing to start spreading the word.
My premise is that if one is free of political club allegience, one would be coaxed into doing exactly what you suggest, "consider issues rather than ideology."
Well, 54% of the votes in our (admittedly unscientific) poll went to people of do not identify with a party.
How quickly is this growing in the general public? And how does this differ from the general voting public?
My guess (only a guess!) is that not voting by party is becoming more and more common.
For instance, is it common for people to vote for one party's candidate for President and, at the same time, vote for a different party's candidate for Congress?
I just wonder if we aren't surprisingly close to the day where people are willing to vote for the candidate of their choice -- regardless of party affiliation.
Jay,
We can only hope. I'm not sure younger voters (the under 35 crowd) identify themselves with a political club as much as their parents do. That's probably a good thing.
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