Independents: To which political party do you tend to lean toward?

[Ronnie]

I call myself an independent-thinking Republican, since I'm pretty moderate on social issues, and disagree with Republicans on energy policy. 

However, I am a registered Republican and probably always will be.

What about you?

[Padfoot]

I definitely lean towards the Democrats on most social issues and I am in the middle on a lot of economic issues.

[Frodo]

I call myself an independent-thinking Republican, since I'm pretty moderate on social issues, and disagree with Republicans on energy policy. 

However, I am a registered Republican and probably always will be.

What about you?

In a way, I am a Democratic version of you, in that I am an independent-thinking Democrat, so much so that many wonder why I remain in this party. 

I lean slightly conservative on social issues, am largely centrist on economics, center-left on the environment and energy independence, and agree with McCain at least with regard to our commitment to stay in Iraq until it has stabilized.

[MODU]

I traditionally start off with Reformists (until they nominate a loon), and then progress to Republican or Libertarian, depending on what the candidates positions are.

[Ronnie]

I call myself an independent-thinking Republican, since I'm pretty moderate on social issues, and disagree with Republicans on energy policy. 

However, I am a registered Republican and probably always will be.

What about you?

In a way, I am a Democratic version of you, in that I am an independent-thinking Democrat, so much so that many wonder why I remain in this party. 

I lean slightly conservative on social issues, am largely centrist on economics, center-left on the environment and energy independence, and agree with McCain at least with regard to our commitment to stay in Iraq until it has stabilized.

Yeah, huh?  Most Democrats were like you until the left wing of the party took over.

[Joe Republic]

I've been asked this several times (on this forum and elsewhere), and my answer is usually the same:  none of them.

Sure, I might agree with certain planks in one party's overall platform, and other planks in another party, but that has never meant that I gravitate towards or away from any of them.  I vote for individual candidates; I do not vote for parties.

[tik 🪀✨]

It really depends on who spoke last.

(Not serious)

[dead0man]

Republican, but really, the only important position I share with them is guns and that battles already been won.  I got tired of voting for the "lesser of two evils" and started voting my heart instead.  I feel a lot better now after I vote, no nasty taste in my mouth or anything.

[Chipmunk]

I come from a pretty conservative background and if I had to pick, I'd probably lean Republican on most issues--especially those related to the economy.  However, I picked up a few liberal ideas in college and lean Democratic on most moral and social issues.  I like defining myself as an independent because I'm not locked into one way of thinking or the other, and can try to keep an open mind about each issue and respective candidate.

[Хahar 🤔]

I'm totally not an independent, but my parents are registered DTS (Californian for Independent). They're a whole lot more conservative on most things, right at the center on the PM score (or at least my dad is, my mom's apathetic). And my grandparents in Bangladesh are downright conservative. They'd vote for the Jamaat-e-Islam before the center-left Awami League. But my parents vote straight-ticket Democratic, because of foreign policy. Needless to say, they do not like the Bush Doctrine or the semi-xenophobia of most Republicans. And thus, I was exposed to Democratic ideals at an early age, when my mind was still quite open. The "War on Terror", declared when I was 6, certainly nurtured that. And my general Democratic lean, coupled with a child's compassion (firmly grounded in reality through the sight of intense poverty during my trips to Bangladesh), brought me well on the way to socialism, boldly going where none of my ancestors have gone before. And now I'm left of the Democratic mainstream.

[WalterMitty]

im a republican-in-exile.

[TeePee4Prez]

I definitely lean towards the Democrats on most social issues and I am in the middle on a lot of economic issues.

I'm pretty much you except I actually am a Democrat.  Before 2002 however, I was registered Independent and if PA weren't so close minded on primaries, I probably would be again.  To say I'm a Democrat (in some white areas during mayoral elections) I might as well put a bag over my head.  Pretty much Philly: Democrat=Black Panther Activists/Union Stooges and Thugs and Republicans have to moderate to be electable.

[NDN]

I might be Democratic but it's for national identification not local. The RI Democrats are generally horrible with the exception of a few like Cicilline or Langevin. They're pretty much just union stooges and tax-and-spend bureaucrats.

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

GOP economically

Libertarain socially.

[NDN]

I definitely lean towards the Democrats on most social issues and I am in the middle on a lot of economic issues.

I'm pretty much you except I actually am a Democrat.  Before 2002 however, I was registered Independent and if PA weren't so close minded on primaries, I probably would be again.  To say I'm a Democrat (in some white areas during mayoral elections) I might as well put a bag over my head.  Pretty much Philly: Democrat=Black Panther Activists/Union Stooges and Thugs and Republicans have to moderate to be electable.

You sound a lot like me.

[memphis]

I'm technically an independant because Tennessee doesn't have partisan registration. On the other hand, I'm a huge Dem hack

[dead0man]

I might be Democratic but it's for national identification not local. The RI Democrats are generally horrible with the exception of a few like Cicilline or Langevin. They're pretty much just union stooges and tax-and-spend bureaucrats.

How is that different from the rest of the Democrats?

[Хahar 🤔]

I might be Democratic but it's for national identification not local. The RI Democrats are generally horrible with the exception of a few like Cicilline or Langevin. They're pretty much just union stooges and tax-and-spend bureaucrats.

How is that different from the rest of the Democrats?

We're not "stooges".

[dead0man]

Ahhh, you're just union members and tax and spend bureaucrats?

[Хahar 🤔]

Ahhh, you're just union members and tax and spend bureaucrats?

Eh, the unions are dying, and I'm not sure that we're bureaucratts, but tax-and-spend is better than don't-tax-but-spend-anyway.

[dead0man]

Ahhh, you're just union members and tax and spend bureaucrats?

Eh, the unions are dying

Thank God, they nearlly killed industry in this country

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Now that's true....but so is, "getting a reach around while getting raped in prison is better than just getting raped in prison".

[NDN]

I might be Democratic but it's for national identification not local. The RI Democrats are generally horrible with the exception of a few like Cicilline or Langevin. They're pretty much just union stooges and tax-and-spend bureaucrats.

How is that different from the rest of the Democrats?

Plenty, take a look at how people like Sebelius are manging their states. There are competent and moderate Dems, it's just that the worst stereotypes are mostly true here... With the exception of Cicilline who actually has cut crime and given businesses tax breaks without being a crook like Cianci was.

[Democratic Hawk]

Come November, I could be a Democratic-Leaning Independent but, I'll pray to God each night, that there won't be any reason for it to come to that

Dave

[Person Man]

Come November, I could be a Democratic-Leaning Independent but, I'll pray to God each night, that there won't be any reason for it to come to that

Dave

[Sasquatch]

Democrat.

I gave libertarians a shot because I agree with them 100% on social issues, but the role of government, trade, the economy they lost me. However, when someones asks me who I'm for I just say I'm an independent. I have a hard time associating myself with a party that has been pushed around by a president with 28% approval rating, but on the left there really isn't any options.