I have voted for R’s in the past but can’t see doing it now— it’s becoming a self-reinforcing cycle where only the crazies are active in the party.

Anonymous wrote:I have voted for both parties in the past.

Given 2016 to the present, I will not consider voting for anyone in this GOP until the whole party gets reformed away from what it is now.

This is also my take, exactly.

Lifelong Democrat. Never voted for a Republican before I voted for Larry Hogan's second term.

Yes at the local level

All the time. It mostly turns on the level of government these days. I have not voted for a Republican on the federal level since probably 2008 (we had a Republican Senator who was pretty good.) On the State level, it's been more of a mixed bag, but I vote Republican less and less even there as our state level GOP adopts more and more of the national Republican agenda.

On the local level, I vote for Republicans all the time -- probably even slightly more than I vote for Democrats. These are people who are mostly interested in filling potholes and who would never make it out of a statewide primary because they're too close to the middle.

I have voted for Republicans in local elections (though pre-Trump and prior to living in DC). I'd definitely still be willing to vote for a right-leaning independent (the type of person who would have been mainstream GOP before Trump) in a local election if I found them to be more serious or I liked their policy platform better. The main thing is that keeping an association with the post-Trump GOP is horrendous signal that overwhelms almost anything else a candidate can say or do.

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Anonymous wrote:I miss the good days when republicans used to represent large swaths of fairfax and most of loudoun/pw counties in virginia locally. times were much more civilized then. those days are long gone however.

Those republicans would be considered, at best RINO's today.

+1 to this.
No such thing as a moderate Republican anymore. They all have to fall in line to win the primary.

Anonymous wrote:I miss the good days when republicans used to represent large swaths of fairfax and most of loudoun/pw counties in virginia locally. times were much more civilized then. those days are long gone however.

Those republicans would be considered, at best RINO's today.

I miss the good days when republicans used to represent large swaths of fairfax and most of loudoun/pw counties in virginia locally. times were much more civilized then. those days are long gone however.

In my very first election, I voted for Mike Castle in DE. He was a moderate Republican. He also worked well with our 2 Senators at the time, which I had a little bit of inside info on because I was a volunteer that summer on Joe Biden's Senate campaign.

At this point, though? HELL NO! The Rs are so dangerous on so many levels.

The last time I just didn't like a candidate on the D side, I just didn't cast that vote. It happened to be a school board election and we were allowed to pick 3 out of 6 candidates - I marked 2. I wasn't going to vote for an R, but I was only comfortable casting a vote for the other 2 D candidates.

It really depends the circumstances what I would do if I really hated the choice on the D side - I guess I would have to make a calculation at that point. At the national level? I'd probably hold my nose because I absolutely, positively will NOT let an R take a spot at that level.

Not until the GQP cleans house. I won't even vote for a Republican at the local level anymore. That party is rotted to the core.

I used to lean Republican and voted for both. But not anymore. I won't vote for the GOP again until they clean their house.

Mid 40s woman here. I was raised in a staunchly Republican family but have always voted split ticket, based less on part affiliation and more on my personal opinion of candidates (for the record, I never voted for Trump).
I have 2 young daughters and had to receive a life-saving abortion myself. I refuse to vote Republican ever again. The Trump years and the overturning of RvW have totally soured me on any Republican candidate.

I have voted for both parties in the past.

Given 2016 to the present, I will not consider voting for anyone in this GOP until the whole party gets reformed away from what it is now.

If you’re a democrat, would you ever consider voting for a republican, if you have not done so already? And vice versa. Seemed far more common before hyperpolarization in recent years, when you had democratic senators in indiana and the dakotas and republican senators in massachusetts.