my sister's FI is a republican and she's a dem and they live in a swing state. he tried to give her erroneous information about her polling place. i couldn't do it.
my sister's FI is a republican and she's a dem and they live in a swing state. he tried to give her erroneous information about her polling place. i couldn't do it.
Different for the president, same for state propositions. Some years we match up, some years we don't. This year we didn't. We're adults about it. I couldn't imagine being married to somebody who would expect or even demand that I agree with them completely on every politcal opinion in order to consider ourselves compatible.
My DH is a libertarian, and I voted libertarian, but DH didn't vote.
So I guess we were divided? Although we hold many of the same values, he doesn't believe in the "system" and felt that voting at all was supporting a broken system.
I avoided this discussion at all costs because he is not an easy person to argue with.
Yes... the imoan household is a democrat (me)/republican(H) household. Last election it was really stressful. This year... we just kind of didn't talk about it and did our own things.
Us too. Although he and I discussed it when he came home. He was planning on voting no on our amendments and voted yes on them by mistake after a long day at work. I think he really went into the election undecided and just picked a name. At least his lost.
Not us. I have lots of friends with all different viewpoints, and we agree to disagree when things come up.
But my spouse? The way we talk politics at home, though, I would struggle. I grew up with very politically vocal parents, and have strong opinions myself. Marrying someone with opposing political views would be harder for me than someone of another religion, culture, or really any of the other things they cite as relationship hot spots.
My parents have different political views (one's a registered dem, the other a republican). They can discuss politics without being total jersk and I think they tend to vote the same way without realizing it.
H is more moderate than I am, but most Democrats are more moderate than I am. My SIL is liberal and my BIL is a Fox News watching, Limbaugh listening conservative. She drinks a lot.
Post by dragonfly08 on Nov 7, 2012 17:36:16 GMT -5
DH and I voted for the same candidates for President, House and Senate. But he's not the one I have to worry about...it's my parents I can't discuss anything even remotely political with. Not only do we have different views, they are completely intolerant of the fact that people might 1) have different views, and 2) might not hold those views for the reasons my parents think (for example, in their opinion, the only reason to vote for a candidate is that you think s/he is amazing and would do a fabulous job...there's no room for "s/he's not necessarily my first choice but is more tolerable than the alternative"). It's bad enough that I've begun to wonder what cabbage patch produced me because I couldn't possibly have learned many of my beliefs from those people no matter how much I love them. :-)
Post by wrathofkuus on Nov 7, 2012 17:38:56 GMT -5
I'm not even sure. Mr. Kuus was underwhelmed by all of the candidates, and didn't tell me who he ended up voting for. I'm guessing it was something super-embarrassing like Virgil Goode.
H is more conservative than me, but I'm pretty radically liberal so it balances nicely. I like getting his opinion on politics, when I have to defend my stances to him I realize how much I care, what I need to read up on, and what I'm being an idiot about. I wouldn't get that if he always agree with me.
Post by TemperanceBrennan on Nov 7, 2012 19:09:27 GMT -5
We agree on most things or at least aren't way off on our opinions on things. Sometimes how we arrive at the opinion is a little different and I am more vocal about politics in general.