(medicalmatt;48109)
This is probably also going to spark a huge amount of response. I have the tendency to do that
I am incredibly patriotic, and have voted in every single election since I turned 18, whether I thought my vote counted or not, whether it was a city election day or national. I have been registered as a Republican since I turned 18, since that is the party whose values most closely reflect my own. Naturally, I don't completely agree with everything the party holds, but I do agree with the majority.Lately, I've considered registering as an Independent. I'll reserve my thought processes on the matter for now. What do you think?
You can register whatever your conscience dictates. That's the beauty in this great nation. BTW, all governments local, state and national have web sites. You can register or change your party by contacting the web site of your local county that you reside in. There are printable forms that you simply mail in and your voter's card comes thru the mail a few short weeks later.As for myself, I have chosen the Libertarian philosophy, but temporarily switched to Republican so I could vote Ron Paul in the primaries. He is actually Libertarian in philosophy and by my understanding of this nation's history and reading the constitution this man's thinking was closest to the founding father's. BTW, Ron Paul did well here, second place @ 16% vote. I heard he actually won Armstrong county. That's better than someone running under the Libertarian ticket which usually gets 1-2% of the vote. If that's what it takes to get the word out, so-to-speak, then I can understand him running under a mainline party so that people feel "safer" with something that sounds more familiar.