What percentage of your family is republican?

[dhinojosa]

Poll question: What percentage of your family is republican?

Guess, estimate, or calculate.....What percentage of your immediate family is republican?

[slackmaster]

1. Depends on the definition of "immediate"

If step-relatives count it's about 50%, otherwise less.

[dhinojosa]

3. To each their own on this one.

:/ Families are complicated things

[Reverend_Smitty]

2. I'd say most and the rest are apolitical

I can only think of 3 people other than myself who voted for Kerry. My mom and my 2 aunts but other than voting they are pretty non-political people who just happen to lean left. Other than that, I'd say they are all Republicans

[dhinojosa]

4. Wow, interesting. :) nt

[Reverend_Smitty]

6. I just don't discuss politics with them anymore

Like my mother always said, never argue with an idiot because all they do is drag you down to their level and beat you with experience. The same goes for my own flesh and blood, I just don't have the strength to do it anymore

[Midlodemocrat]

5. None.

We are all libs.

[BamaGirl]

7. None in mine

Hubby's is mostly rep. We have very little do with them.

[ck4829]

8. Unknown

My Father is a Liberal.

My Mother is a Liberal Republican (I wished there were more of those).

My Brother is a Liberal.

My Paternal Grandmother is a Registered Republican but keeps mementos from Clinton's Inauguration.

I don't know what my Maternal Grandparents are.

[Innoma]

13. Of those who actually vote...

...the vast majority in my family is republican, or at least right-leaning (but a goodly number of them are essentially apolitical and never really bother to vote).

My brother and myself are vehemently liberal, and the only real reason I can see that this might be so is we're both college educated and have travelled to other cultures. No one in our family is what I'd call fanatic religious types, so I can rule that out as a basis for their republican tendencies.

My friends tend to be mostly apolitical, but equally republican and democrat otherwise. What I found interesting were the attitudes of my RW friends and family. I had managed to convince my mom - an apolitical type - that she needed to vote Kerry. I found out later my dad had expressively forbidden her to vote. I had also been having discussions with one of my married friends and offered her free tickets to Moore's F911 film, but again, the husband absolutely forbid her to see it. In both cases, a chilling indictment or republican closemindedness.

On edit: meant to be a general reply rather than one specific to the post above.

[maveric]

9. Zero! I'm from a long line of blue collar union workers and descendants

of immigrants from Ireland and Sicily.
FDR and JFK dems.

[Island Blue]

10. I voted "Most of My Family is Republican"

But that's only if you count my extended family in Jesusland (a.k.a. South Carolina). Those of us who escaped are 100% Democrat.

[ikojo]

11. ALL of my family is working class but

my siblings are Republican because of the abortion issue. They are pretty much one issue voters and are willing to vote against their class interests because they worship fetii.

[dhinojosa]

14. Just curious...

What if you ever asked, "Are you aware that if safe abortions are made illegal you are possibly terminating the lives of not only the fetus but the mother too?"

Or would that open up a pandora's box?

[ikojo]

19. A HUGE pandora's box that would open!

I steer clear of that conversation with my sisters. OMG! Two of my sisters sort of forced their kids to marry someone because one got a girl pregnant and the other had a daughter get pregnant.

There was no other choice offered.

[maxsolomon]

12. only my parents

the rest bleed green

[Hubert Flottz]

15. Is this a trick question?

0!

[blondeatlast]

16. Even my gun totin', ex NRA uncle in Idaho is 100% yellow dog Dem.nt

[Johonny]

17. :(

Most of my family doesn't even bother to register to vote

[LSdemocrat]

18. Zero after Dubya was nominated

After the Repubs nominated Dubya, my father realized the Republican party was nothing but a bunch of idiotic ideologues.

[City Lights]

20. My immediate family, 0; my extended family is another story...

Lots of Kool-Aid lovers on my dad's side, none of whom are willing offer up their kids for junior's war on terra.