Do people on welfare vote democrat or republican?  If they vote democrat?
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Actually, if you look at the election maps from 2000 and 2004, the states with the highest percentage of welfare recipients are "red" states.
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Voting Republican is one.
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I myself have always wondered what would make hard working tax payers vote Republican. I thought it was common knowledge that Republicans work to benefit only the richest people in America, not the working class, which is the majority of us here. But it appears that all some people need is for some politician to say he's conservative and against abortion or gay marriage or illegal immigrants or whatever hot issue is in vogue at the time and these same hard working tax payers forget how much they may be struggling financially go and vote for him on "moral issues or family values". If you are not already rich before you vote Republican then you definitely won't become rich after you vote for them. If you have as much money as George Bush, or the likes then of course you should vote Republican because then he will be working for your interests.
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Republicans believe that everyone has an equal chance to succeed, so they are against Affirmative Action and the like, because, unlike Democrats, they feel that minorities have every chance to do well.  Republicans believe in Equality.  Republicans believe in lower taxes and free trade\n\nDemocrats are more socialist.  They believe in the distribution of wealth.  They believe in the expansion of a welfare state.  They oppose a strong military and national defense.  They are for raising taxes and more government programs
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No.  If I vote for a Democrat in a Red state, my vote does not count.  The opposite is true for a Republican voting in a Blue state.  You vote simply does not count.  We have seen it happen where the candidate with the most votes does not win.  Does that make any sense?
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Democrats. Vote for the Democrats.
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You can't tell that just from these elections.  It depends on who is running and what their policies are.  I personally, don't care what someone is, democrat, or republic....I vote for who I agree with the most.  If that happens to be a democrat, then I vote democrat....if it happens to be a republican, then I vote republican....
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On social issues, Republicans are like introverts, they put themselves and their families above everyone else and don't think about how we have to work together as a society without it falling apart at some point... Democrats are like extroverts, caring about their own families, but also caring about other people, that might be why you always hear Republicans say things like "you feel too much for criminals" etc... There is probably some place in the middle that would work the best, you can't help everyone because not everyone wants to work, but you also can't force people to work for low wages like this administration does, just so some families can get richer... I might have voted for the old Ronald Reagan type of Republican, but this Nation has been way too far right for a lot of years... My opinion is that we need to let people see they can actually make something out of their lives if they work for it, and stop breaking apart our families, because the next thing to go is our nation... 8 million people in our prison justice system proves that we are out of time (it was 6.6 million about 5 years ago, I extrapolated)
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I am registered as Independent, but I will vote more towards Republican than Democrat.
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Voting Democrat, because the GOP are all, or nearly all, greasy amoral scumbags who have auctioned off our country to corporate lobbyists.\n\nAm I thrilled with the Dems?  No.  Do they represent "my values"?  No.  But we have 2 viable choices in this country, and that basically always means choosing the lesser of two evils.  Just shows what a miserable system it is.\n\nP.S. If the Republicans are the party of "personal responsibility" (pause for laughter), then Bush ought to repeal his tax cuts for the mega-wealthy in order to pay for his hugely expensive war of choice.  Because it's really not a question of who will pay - WE will, sooner or later - and you do understand that these are RECORD deficits - it's a question of who hands us the bill, and I feel that it ought to be the guy who ran up the tab.  That sounds like "personal responsibility" to me.\n\nP.P.S. - I can't even begin to imagine the thought process that leads to the conclusion that the GOP is working in the interests of the "middle class worker."  Sorry if you don't like the term "scumbags," but it's descriptive of a fact.
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Historically most black people vote Democrat over Republican because the Democratic Party believes in more government involvement - particularly on social issues.
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Democrat.  I believe in their values more than the republicans.  Also, republicans just whine about everything.  Also, Bush is the dumbest person on the face of the universe.  You could fit his library in a little corner.
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I almost always vote for one party over the other but just so I wont be a zombie I refuse to vote straight ticket.  \n\nI used to know a very old man who was illiterate and he would go into the voting booth and look for the donkey at the top of the ticket and punch straight party.  He would say, "The donkey means Democrat.  And Roosevelt was a Democrat...and that makes me a Democrat"  \n\nRepublican or Democrat don't give up your individuality for the party.
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I'm not a democrat because I dont believe in supporting gays, abortion and things of that nature. Ya know? the whole liberal side of it. But at the same time i am for representation of minorities, Medicaid, and taking care of your citizens which is something that democrats were more succesful at in the clinton years than the Bush Admin is now.\n\nI'm not a republican because they are the money hungry elite of society and they are only out to run the country as if it were a corporation as well as their own underlying interest, whether that involves damaging the nation or not, as well as our foreign relations with others. Republicans are people who would send your fellow americans to battle for oil profits and not think twice of it.\n\nSo it's a two way street for me, but I will vote Democratic for the rest of my life because I've noticed just in my short life time that when a democrat is in office things tend to be a bit more calmer....Republicans like to start wars, and war ladies and gentleman is not the answer.
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Republicans usually pull for the upperclass and dems pull for lower/middle class
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Absolutely\n\nI am an expert on this subject because I was raised in a southern republican family where the only word referring to a black person started with an 'n'.\n\nThank God I educated myself and got rid of my ignorance.\n\nThe Republican party uses hate and prejudices to motivate voters. I am not making this up.. those words have come right out of Rove's mouth.\nhttp://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/architect/view/\n\nHe has been doing this to win elections since the 70s.\n\nAnother way to see proof of this is to ask yourself simple questions like how many whites and blacks are on welfare... there are actually more whites on welfare than blacks. BUT, what does the republican party think and tell you about this and WHY. They have successfully used race to paint a black female with 3 kids welfare face on the democratic party. Why? = to motivate your prejudices.\n\nAnother example is gay marriage. Watch that link I gave above. Rove is quoted as stating his #1hate issue to motivate votes is gay marriage.\n\nI can't tell you anymore. You will have to watch and learn.\n\nThe sad fact of the matter is that using hate to win elections might win the battles but loses the war for America... dividing us all.
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There really isn't a political affiliation calculated for Democrats and Republicans. You can have a Democrats that's conservative or a Republican that's liberal. It depends on the person's politics. These days though, Republicans are branded conservative and Democrats liberal. If you look at history, there are points of time when the affliation for Democrats and Republicans were reversed.