<p>I just want to thank the dedicated voters who stand in the long lines for hours.</p>
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<p>Membership in the other party has so far been a deal breaker for my D. She’s more forgiving of the ones who are indifferent, but she still figures out their leanings pretty quickly.</p>
<p>We usually vote as a family, but my husband is working 16/7 since the storm and my D has a real job so she may not come at the same time as I do. It’s usually an incredibly fun time. Our poll professionals are several folks from Jamaica and they know how to make even casting a vote into a hot time!</p>
<p>^Well, my D is somewhat more conservative than her parents, and even considered voting for the other party’s candidate last time before he picked a running mate! She’s OK with it, but it would have been a deal breaker for me!</p>
<p>I’ll be sitting at a booth for a certain candidate, with info and cookies, for several,hours tomorrow. </p>
<p>I cannot imagine watching the results come in with someone from a different party.</p>
<p>My girls are varying degrees of conservative living in NYC. If they eliminated liberal men from consideration, they would have mighty slim pickings.</p>
<p>My D worked for Amy too (I think that makes 3 of us)! She is expected to win easily. There is an expectation here in MN, however, that the Marriage Amendment (it’s already illegal for homosexuals to wed, but proponents are trying to put it in the state Constitution) will bring out record numbers of conservatives here. Bill Clinton, Paul Ryan, and Josh Romney have all been here in the last 12 hours, so experts on both sides must expect a tight battle. Votes may not be tallied here for weeks.
Sadly, my mixed political marriage is quite strained at the moment. H used to be able to argue both sides of the issues and came down slightly on the other side than I. Now, he gets his news from one source only, is on all his far-from-center friends’ inflammatory e-mail lists, and is convinced the world will end if his guy loses (I am purposely not saying which side). Meanwhile, I wonder where my reasonable, informed, and lovable-even-if-I-don’t-agree-completely-with-you husband went.
I will follow the returns with my moderate son - who would vote exactly like his Mom if he were 18 ;)</p>
<p>I’m going to stand at the polls for a few hours holding signs. I don’t mind doing it, but it will be cold.</p>
<p>I just got invited to the Governor’s victory party tomorrow, but I’m going to have pizza with friends instead.</p>
<p>VT is good on gay marriage and I don’t expect that to change. Medical marijuana has been legal here for awhile, but they just this year approved dispensaries to get the stuff. People were allowed to grow their own, I think.</p>
<p>mnmomof2 – We should form a support group. My husband is exactly like yours. He wasn’t this way when we got married, so I don’t know what happened.</p>
<p>We had a discussion on New Year’s Day this year about how we would handle this election year, even toying with the idea of living separately (the kids are all gone).</p>
<p>We’re spending tomorrow night separately, both convinced that our side will win :-)</p>
<p>I’ll be out of town at a conference. Will get updates from CNN on my phone whether I like it or not.</p>
<p>Indiana - sorry to hear you are in the same boat. It’s almost over (barring a hand recount, hanging chads, too few voting machines in certain locations, post Sandy effects, etc.)!</p>
<p>I have a serious question about “mixed marriages”:</p>
<p>To me, being for one side or the other means agreeing with their positions as well. It means embracing a certain philosophy toward the role our government should play, and it means viewing people and their relationship to the government in a certain way. Mildly favoring one candidate over another is one thing, but being a dyed-in-the-wool conservative or dyed-in-the-wool liberal is an entirely different thing. Both DH and I are dyed-in-the-wool [somethings], and if we were on opposite sides of the fence I don’t think we would have gotten married.</p>
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<p>maybe he saw the light…age does bring wisdom…lol</p>
<p>I can’t even do mixed friendships let alone a mixed marriage!!</p>
<p>Curious like VH is. I’m not sure I could be married to someone who believed 180 of what I did. I am the less partisan one in our marriage when it comes to policy, but we’re not that far apart. We agree not to discuss the issue that is a hot-button one where we don’t agree, but, overall, we align 90% of the time.</p>
<p>In my personal experience, men tend to get more conservative and less flexible as they age. Big generalization, I know, but I’ve seen a lot of it. Fortunately not true of my husband. I can’t imagine being married to someone with such different values.</p>
<p>My DH has become more dogmatic, for sure.</p>
<p>Don’t tell him I said so. ;)</p>
<p>Most of my friends are involved in politics and I am the (volunteer) campaign manager for my state delegate so I have no interest in dating or marrying someone of the different persuasion. No one else in my immediate family is like-minded, however, so we just don’t talk much about politics. My mother did ask me to park my car behind the house the last time I was there so people couldn’t see my bumper sticker. I didn’t.</p>
<p>I was always very independent. Voting for the candidate, not the party. My husband always voted the straight party ticket from the day we married. Four years ago, however, he suddenly changed sides. The VP candidate was what did it for him. This year he has actually put up a sign for the opposite party of what he has always voted. So I guess old dogs can learn new tricks.</p>
<p>I can’t imagine this year will be as exciting as last. One party even sent a car to volunteer to take my college age son to the polls. This year we will be voting in all different places since the kids have all moved out and my husband is voting absentee. I will probably watch the results here by myself.</p>
<p>I’m getting kind of sad thinking that I didn’t do more this time when four years ago I was all in.</p>