Not in the primaries. Only registered voters can vote in their party's primary.

and, Spork, I'd say that Americans are more independent within the party system than are their peers in Europe...the party designation applies mainly to voting in the primaries, and nothing more.

However, I believe that a few years ago (40-50), people were more likely to vote a straight party ticket than they are today. Every year, we have more registered independents (no party affiiation) in the states.



Plus, I'm a BLUE DOG Democrat...very different from a Northeastern liberal Democrat.

Catz

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JW Frogen, my new favorite noob poster:

If you are such a weak jellyfish you can be bullied on a forum where you can ignore any poster you do not want to read than I suggest you move to Tibet, convert to Buddhism, protest the Chinese occupation, be killed as you will by the Chinese and hope you come back with some form of backbone.

Yes I do. But apparantly, liberals don't. That's why you will rarely see them using facts to back their argument. (Hence the whole "Bush stole the election again" ridiculousness that we are hearing now).

Catz, does this suggest that those who attend church seldom or never are athiest by default? If this is the suggestion it sounds fishy.

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But, one can say, safely, that those who are likely to vote for religious reasons are also likely to have their butts in a pew come Sunday.



Catz

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JW Frogen, my new favorite noob poster:

If you are such a weak jellyfish you can be bullied on a forum where you can ignore any poster you do not want to read than I suggest you move to Tibet, convert to Buddhism, protest the Chinese occupation, be killed as you will by the Chinese and hope you come back with some form of backbone.

Thanks for clarifying.

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I thought it was funny.

Catz

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JW Frogen, my new favorite noob poster:

If you are such a weak jellyfish you can be bullied on a forum where you can ignore any poster you do not want to read than I suggest you move to Tibet, convert to Buddhism, protest the Chinese occupation, be killed as you will by the Chinese and hope you come back with some form of backbone.

It is funny, but it get hard to know what is a joke and what isn't. Personally, I do not attend church regularly if at all, but I do believe in God. So just being clear.

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"Yep, it was the atheist vote that really put Bush over the top in 2004."

If this is true, than I know there is no god.