Which Republican scandal caused you to vote Democratic ?
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None of them, they just made me laugh at the hypocricy of the Republican party.
930362
DEMOCRATS WON!\nRUMSFELD RESIGNED!\nDeal with it, Repubs
249813
I've only been involved in 3 votes, my first I voted Republican just because that is how my dad raised me, but going to college educated me and now I do research and make informed decisions based on the candidate that shares my views on what I deem to be the most important issues (U.S.A.)
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Knowing there affiliation will help you know a little more about there agenda.\n\nI would hate to know I voted for a Republican.
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Americans' sense of civic virtue was shocked by the scandals associated with the Reconstruction era, including corrupt state governments, massive fraud in cities controlled by machines, political payoffs to secure government contracts (especially the Crédit Mobilier of America scandal regarding the financing of the transcontinental railroad), and widespread evidence of government corruption during the Ulysses S. Grant administration (see Whiskey Ring). Led by the Bourbon Democrats, especially Samuel J. Tilden and Grover Cleveland, there was a call for reform, such as Civil Service Reform. More generally there was a sense that government intervention in the economy resulted in favoritism, bribery, kickbacks, inefficiency, waste and corruption. The Bourbon Democrats led the call for a free market, low tariffs, low taxes, less spending and, in general, a Laissez-Faire (hands-off) government. They also denounced imperialism and overseas expansion. Many business and professional people supported this approach, although most Republicans continued to argue for a high protective tariff to encourage rapid growth of industry and protect America's high wages against the low wage system in Europe. Labor activists and agrarians expressed the same spirit but focused their attacks on monopolies and railroads as unfair to the little man.\n\nIn politics the two parties engaged in very elaborate get-out-the vote campaigns that succeeded in pushing turnout to 80%, 90% and even higher. It was financed by the "spoils system" whereby the winning party distributed most local, state and national government jobs, and many government contracts, to its loyal supporters. Large cities were dominated by political machines, in which constituents supported a candidate in exchange for anticipated patronage—favors back from the government, once that candidate was elected—and candidates were selected based on their willingness to play along. Presidential elections between the two major parties (the Republicans and Democrats), were closely contested, and Congress was marked by political stalemate. Mudslinging became an increasingly popular way of gaining advantage at the polls, and Republicans employed an election tactic known as "waving the bloody shirt". Candidates, especially when combating corruption charges, would remind voters that the Republican Party had saved the nation in the Civil War. During the 1870s voters were repeatedly reminded that the Democrats had been responsible for the bloody upheaval, an appeal that attracted many Union veterans to the Republican camp. The Republicans consistently carried the North in presidential elections. The South, on the other hand, became the Solid South, nearly always voting Democratic. The political humiliations of Reconstruction were still fresh in many minds. Conversely, the Democrats invoked images of the "lost cause" and the glorious "stars and bars" in much the same way Republicans "waved the bloody shirt". Overall, Republican and Democratic political platforms remained remarkably constant during the years before 1900. The negativity and ambiguity of politics began a shift in the press to yellow journalism, in which sensationalism and sentimental stories took as prominent a role as factual news.\n\nGreat question.  Thanks...I learned something too.
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I was always a Republican that was until the Clinton Administration, I can now say that I am Democratic and I will vote for any Clinton that runs for office. He was awesome, regardless of the scandel, which I must say was just being human, thousands of men cheat on their wives every day, thousands of men lie about it. If everyone wanted a President with high morals they would have chosen a woman years ago. Men have 2 brains both of which they will use to think with, women don't
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The Democrat party has come back with Conservative Democrats as I am. Corruption of the GOP has ruined their chances for quite some time with the immoral values and scandals that will have to be sorted out to bring back any trust in them. That is why the bi-partisanship vote came out November 7th, and Congress is now majority Democrat. Ultimate power corrupts, and those you have named are the victimizers of the corruption.
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Sorry. Have you ever had a history lesson? Has it ever occured to you that the reason the South votes Republican now is that it was almost exclusively run by Democrats, for Democrats for 120 years? During that period, we had corrupt, inefficient government, slow economic growth, terrible schools, racism, awful health care, regressive taxation, and cronyism to an unbelievable degree? Further, did you know that Southern states were far more statist economies than their northern counterparts, and far more in keeping with Democratic economic theory? With all that in mind, is it any wonder that Southerners reject the Democratic Party overwhelmingly? After all, if there was ever a laboratory for Democratic theories of governance, the South was it. \n\nNow that we have Republicans, we are actually have full employmment, less corruption, rapidly improving schools, and an economy that's rapidly outpacing the rest of the economy. \n\nSo rather than wonder why we're so stupid for voting Republican, consider for a moment that we do so out of experience.
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Democrats,, because Republicans have screwed everything and everybody
537492
Straight Ticket Democrat, and I am not going to list all of the above for my reasons.  The complete and utter failure of the republican party.
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Registered Republican here.\n\nI vote the person....not the party.\n\nThanks for asking!
977055
I'm an Independent and I voted Democratic.  I don't feel the least bit sorry for the Republicans, they brought this mess on themselves.  We had to elect a Democratic House and Senate to stop King George from thinking he's...well, King.  I'm so relieved right now that we finally have checks and balances in place, but feel sorry for the Repubs?  Never.
849963
I would never vote republican. Lying, calling themselves Christians, war profiteering (haliburton), it's all sick. THEY are all sick.
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According to Wikipedia Democrats have been involved in a total of 50 scandals over the last 100 years, while Republicans have only been involved in 43. Keep in mind that Bush is still in office.
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Voting Democrat, because the GOP are all, or nearly all, greasy amoral scumbags who have auctioned off our country to corporate lobbyists.\n\nAm I thrilled with the Dems?  No.  Do they represent "my values"?  No.  But we have 2 viable choices in this country, and that basically always means choosing the lesser of two evils.  Just shows what a miserable system it is.\n\nP.S. If the Republicans are the party of "personal responsibility" (pause for laughter), then Bush ought to repeal his tax cuts for the mega-wealthy in order to pay for his hugely expensive war of choice.  Because it's really not a question of who will pay - WE will, sooner or later - and you do understand that these are RECORD deficits - it's a question of who hands us the bill, and I feel that it ought to be the guy who ran up the tab.  That sounds like "personal responsibility" to me.\n\nP.P.S. - I can't even begin to imagine the thought process that leads to the conclusion that the GOP is working in the interests of the "middle class worker."  Sorry if you don't like the term "scumbags," but it's descriptive of a fact.
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Republican\n\nthe Democratic party has taken on too many "fringe" organizations and has alienated people who used to vote independently.\n\nIndependents can't raise the money needed
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I gotta tell ya'...for such a long time I didn't know that I was conservative.  My mama and daddy always voted Democrat...so, I thought I was a Dem...then I grew up, got married, had kids and started paying attention to what was really going on.  Then I realized I had been conservative all along.