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We have an election coming up - Where on the political scale do you fall?

Politics are my life – Super Tuesday found you watching two TVs so you could see up to the minute updates from both Fox and CNN. Your family, friends and co-workers know better to even mention politics in passing for fear of your rants. Your doctor keeps saying your blood pressure won’t come down until you learn how to “let go.”

American Duty – You carefully weigh the candidates platforms, choosing the person who best represents what you’d do if you were in charge. Election day, you get up early so you can vote without taking time from work. The poll workers know you by name. You wear the “I voted today!” sticker.

American Apathy – “Like my vote matters?” you think. It seems like too much effort to go to your polling place; the teenagers have all the good parking spaces, the gym smells like sour milk and old sport socks, and you suffer flashbacks of high school for days afterward. Maybe you’ll just skip the whole thing (again)

I use to be an "American Duty" person, voting on issues local and national, careful to get my absentee ballot request in on time while I was away. Somewhere around 2000 I looked around and said, "I don't like any of you." I didn't vote - and the ghosts of the hanging chads of that year still haunt us.

I don't know if its a symptom of getting older, a sign of our times, or just because of where I live, but I seem to crossing paths with more and more politically rabid folk - but I've been surprised - the bigger the bluster, the louder the voice, the less likely they are to actually vote?!

Somewhere between Duty and Apathy. Found as I age, I feel less like my vote matters. Am one of those who's lost faith in the complicated system, especially with all the backroom deals for the super delegates to make, etc. Generally avoid any political talk since most of my friends and I don't agree and don't like to get any of their blood pressures up. Plus, believe that none of the politicians really care about anything but their own financial gains and egos. It's generally a matter of finding which one is the least of all the evils.
And, no, I'd never want to live anywhere else in the world. Am just totally disenchanted with politics, period.

I fall between duty and apathy. If there is a candidate I like I will vote for him or her. But there are times when I don't care for any of the candidates and I feel that it doesn't make any difference who wins.

Ellen

I too, fall somewhere between duty and apathy. I follow some of the debates but get bored easily and move on before they are done. Don't believe much of anything that any of them say. I have always voted and probably always will but like the others, I don't discuss politics much. Only with very close friends and family who I know feel about the same way that I do. I usually follow my parties nominations and go with that, but have also been known to change some of the votes here and there.
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Duty for the Presidential elections, but I don't get out there for the state and local elections. I quietly vote every four years in November. Rarely talk politics with anyone. Not allowed to at work and my family is split so I have a couple rabid Aunts/Uncles that heat up the e-mails arguing with eachother and then apologizing closer to election time... the rest of us just delete their e-mails.
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Tammy and Pookey
(Stanley 8/91 - 8/07)

I usually vote in the elections. Don't really get too wrapped up the issues, but form my opinion by listening to everyone. Also, love driving the little old ladies crazy at the polls. We are the only house on our street, so when I say "Bonnie View" they say, "not here". They will swear on a stack of bibles until they see our house as the only one on the street on the town list under precient 3.