Parents Effect On Your Outlook
 

Just curious...

Leaned, past tense, for where your parents leaned while raising you. If your parents were split, choose whichever one had a greater influence on you. If you had no parents, substitute whoever raised you. -Lean- means slightly or extremely or anywhere in between. Moderates are pussies who can't make up their minds.

Also, dont' confuse right/left with Rep/Dem, just straight up politically conservative or liberal.

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They are hardcore right, which I was, till I started researching things and thinking for myself, then I slowly moved left. I was the biggest Reagan supporter in my 3rd grade class, lol. Voted for Dole, then Nader, then Gore, then Kerry.

Currently at hardcore left level, not quite a communist yet, heh

edit: the poll's about even so far, i will be interested once we get a larger sample size.....

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I imagine that the top and bottom choice should get the most and be about equal, and the two middle choices will get much less and be about equal. That's what I would think, the results should be interesting.

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As you worded the poll, they leaned right and I lean right, but that doesn't tell the whole story.

My parents are as conservative as they can be, but they grew up as Southern Democrats, and to my knowledge neither have ever voted for a Republican, regardless of how Liberal the Democratic candidate was. They are blinded by party loyalty and can't see past the D beside the candidate's names.

On the other hand, the older I get, the more conservative I become. I voted for Dukakis (yuck), Clinton twice, and now Bush twice. I am no great fan of Bush, but he was a better choice than Gore (a homeboy, I live in TN) or Kerry. If the Republicans can't find a better candidate than Bush, I guess I will vote Libertarian next time.

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I'll be quite happy with Allen or Guiliani.

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This 2+2 poll notwithstanding, a wealth of survey evidence indicates that there is a very strong positive correlation between the political orientations and party identifications of parents and their children.

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I'll be quite happy with Allen or Guiliani.

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Allen I need to learn more about, Rudi will be high on my list in '08.

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I lean right, my mom is a lib. My political views shifted through my college years, though perhaps evolved is a better word. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

Splitting tense
 

There are 4 choices that have been omitted:

5. I lean left, and my mother leaned left while my father leaned right.
6. I lean left, and my father leaned left while my mother leaned right.
7. I lean right, and my mother leaned right while my father leaned left.
8. I lean right, and my father leaned right while my mother leaned left.

Darwin blushed
 

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I lean right, my mom is a lib. My political views shifted through my college years, though perhaps evolved is a better word.

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As fine an argument against evolution as I've seen all week.

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Dad usually votes republican, Mom usually votes dem. My father takes politics very seriously, and my mother makes up her mind the night before the elections. I learned more from, and was influenced far more, by my dad, but i am far more liberal than he is.

go figure. my grandparents are the same way, one conservative, one progressive. hmmmm.... am i destined to marry a republican?

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Mom was almost the epitome of liberalism, living by the seat of her pants, doing whatever provides immediate sensory pleasures, basically "enjoying" personal freedom to the fullest.

As time passed she became progressively miserable, though, as the bigger, long-term questions poked their way into the forefront.

My conclusion is that this fate was no accident and is the direct result of decades of a liberal lifestyle.

Dad OTOH looks to be satisfied with his 2nd wife (together 25 years and counting) and their conservative outlook and family values seems to play a big part.

So for me it's a no-brainer...liberal parent = miserable, conservative parent = happy. Maybe it's a coincidence but in my particular case I don't think so.

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Dad OTOH looks to be satisfied with his 2nd wife (together 25 years and counting) and their conservative outlook and family values seems to play a big part.


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My mother is about as left as you can get, while my father just hates it all. FWIW, I lean right.

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Stand up, sit down, fight, fight, fight.

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My father is conservative and my mother is populist (haven't seen that term thrown around in a while). I am a libertarian leaning conservative.

Re: Darwin blushed
 

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I lean right, my mom is a lib. My political views shifted through my college years, though perhaps evolved is a better word.

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As fine an argument against evolution as I've seen all week.

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