What would you take for you to vote for the opposite party that you generally lean?

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What would you take for you to vote for the opposite party that you usually lean? That is, if you usually vote Democrat, what would it take for you to ever vote for a Republican? If you are a Republican, what would it take for you to ever vote for a Democrat?

While I'm not a Republican, I'm probably voting for Trump in 2024 over Biden. The main scenario where I'm voting Democrat is if I lived in Florida, for 2026 governor, given how much damage authoritarian DeSantis has done (I probably would still vote Republican for 2024 Senate, as horrible of a human being Rick Scott is). The legislature is still safe Republican, and should check any Democratic governor.

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Rob DeSwampAss gets the nom. I've voted in 4 elections and in all the last 3 I voted straight R. I fully intend to do so again in 2024 unless he is the nominee.

You mean you would vote Biden over DeSantis? How would you vote downballot? (I personally would vote DeSantis over Biden, though it's like a -100 vs a -110. However, if the opponent were someone like Tony Evers, or even Hillary Clinton, I would vote D over DeSantis, especially if I knew the Senate were going Republican).

DeSantis, unlike Trump, actually scares me as someone who could successfully push authoritarian policies through the political system.

Also, how would you vote if you lived in FL for governor 2026?

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I would still vote R on every race downballot. As for Gov, DeSantis will not be eligible to run again until 2030, so presumably I would vote for whichever Republican gets the nom in 2026, unless they are a vile RDS clone.

Who would you vote for if DeSantis changed the constitution to run for a third term? He has already eliminated the "resign to run" rule.

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Usually it's not so much the Democrats that win my vote as the Republicans that lose it. Anyway, I split my ballot about evenly between the two major parties in 2018, but otherwise have voted mostly or entirely Republican with the occasional Libertarian vote mixed in.

I probably have somewhat lower standards for Democrats than Republicans, actually -- because both parties will rule America about half the time, it makes sense for me to vote for better-than-replacement Democrats, who will then hopefully have more of a voice in their parties, even if I would find a Republican with the same views very distasteful. In the past I've used gun rights as a good litmus test, with people like Manchin/Donnelly/Heitkamp getting my hypothetical vote so that the Democratic Senate caucus is more pro-gun-ownership, though as the conservative victory on this issue gets more entrenched and it becomes less relevant I'll probably need to find something else.

This isn't necessarily true: Democrats had the House for 40 years from 1954 to 1994.

It looked like Republicans were due to hold the Senate for a whole generation, but Democrats are holding up a lot better than expected there now.