What is your voting record like?

[angus]

Inspired by a "who will you vote for?" thread where several people mentioned they might skip the election.

So, how often do you (or don't you) vote?

I sometimes skip the odd-numbered year elections.  I always vote in the even year ones.  I also miss some of the march elections (school board, etc.)  I try to make all the state senate, state house, US rep, US senate, president, governor, mayor, and state-wide referenda.

[angus]

(yes, John Kerry was the first vote I cast ever, mock me all you want).  

That's nothing.  The first time I ever voted for President I voted for Michael Dukakis, so I don't really have much room to be mocking anybody for how they voted.  Well, okay, maybe those voters who put Hitler's party over the top in the '33 German federal elections might get a slightly higher score than I on the naive-o-meter, but that'd be about all.  

[angus]

2002: Didn't vote.

2004: Didn't care enough to show up on election day but did the Absentee thing (good thing they don't ask for identification.)

2006: see above

2008: Didn't vote.

2010: Straight Democratic.

Hard to top that.

[angus]

Hard to top it for what?

apathy.

It struck me very funny when I read it.  A paradox.  You're always the stereotypical Democrat:  Morose, yet excitable.  Preaching optimism while predicting doom.  Convinced that we have to save the world from itself.  Call the people to action!

Did you vote?

Well, not exactly.