Why do poor people vote republican?

Question

I come from a democrat leaning house and we earn well over 250K before bonuses. I live in Texas and I could tell you that most conservatives are religious, anti science lunatics who live in lower middle class households in rural areas and never went to college (or went to a christian "college." )

I also major mechanical engineering and finance at a University here in Austin. The truth is that most conservative politicians don't care about the interests of poor republicans and wouldn't want to be caught dead living in such crappy homes and such crappy cars that many of you poor conservatives "own." I vote democrat in order to help people because I think of the good of society, not just the good for my family and my future myself.

Why do poor people vote republican? Thoughts?

Answer 1

Part of the reason nothing is getting done in Washington, in my humble opinion, is that each side both democratic and republican is so distrustful of the opposing party that they will reject bills they probably even wish passed but if that makes those Wrascully Republicans, or the dingbat democrats they they will hold thing up as long as they can and still maintain a good standing in there own party or the eyes of the American public. I think Ronald Reagan was the last President to hold sway over both parties. I think the commercial he ran back then was it was morning in a America. A new day kind of think and if that was the case we are in the midst of a late afternoon cleanup of foodfights over breakfast, lunch, and I think they are arguing if it is tea at three or whether that are trade dollars should go to some South American rainforest growers.



Anyway I believe if we could all separate our own best interest in for what is in the best interest of the country, without being too cynical there might be progress. I was a smoker twenty years ago when I VOTED for the cigarette tax to go towards research. Of course the lawyers saw no research was done only expensive litigation . However, I won out in the end because eventually all of the taxes to smokes made them simply a cheap thrill compared to what I really get to do. Well politics is something I only discuss in anonymous forums as I know first hand you cannot argue with a true believer. All the facts in the world won't convince someone to believe what they simply are not ready to hear.



Hope that helps ........

Answer 2

The rich vote for the Republicans more then the poor and they dont want to poor getting sore at them for being rich and growing richer so they have to get the GOP to sell the dream through the media , stuff like relegione and being a good christain can be made to be important stops people thinking about the real world that is going on around them. But I dont think poor people vote for one party over the other it probally veries state to states. The Democrats appeal to the urban poor in Northern states cause they say the opposite and promise everything for everyone in reality both parties are a machine a well oiled one for self interest and looking after the interests of the rich. I mean what exactly has Obama done for the poor in fact America inslaves more people in poverty then any other nation on earth Obaman appears to be more intrested in making other countries into idenkit mini Americas although he might have gone more softly then Bush I cant see how a poor person( give or take a few scraps )in America is better off under Obaman then Bush . The poor dont matter in elections unless they moblise and create a movement the politcal masters look to the rich and the compliant ignorance of the poor to win elections not whats going to make life better for the poor. Although Obama will promise a better feuture for them but a politicans promises are often empty.

Answer 3

Cause they aspire to be rich and sucesfull one day like the Bush dynasty for example. They dont care so much about education apart from education in the functional practicle sense ie whether its going to get them a good job. The Reps are not demanding the poor care about the rest just watch there own back and you can get somewhere if you work hard engough. The American dream is still the best drug the powerful can give the poor.

The rich vote for the Republicans more then the poor and they dont want to poor getting sore at them for being rich and growing richer so they have to get the GOP to sell the dream through the media , stuff like relegione and being a good christain can be made to be important stops people thinking about the real world that is going on around them. But I dont think poor people vote for one party over the other it probally veries state to states. The Democrats appeal to the urban poor in Northern states cause they say the opposite and promise everything for everyone in reality both parties are a machine a well oiled one for self interest and looking after the interests of the rich. I mean what exactly has Obama done for the poor in fact America inslaves more people in poverty then any other nation on earth Obaman appears to be more intrested in making other countries into idenkit mini Americas although he might have gone more softly then Bush I cant see how a poor person( give or take a few scraps )in America is better off under Obaman then Bush . The poor dont matter in elections unless they moblise and create a movement the politcal masters look to the rich and the compliant ignorance of the poor to win elections not whats going to make life better for the poor. Although Obama will promise a better feuture for them but a politicans promises are often empty.

Answer 4

The vast majority of people don't relaly understand money. Social issues are what takes hold.

Most people like you, from what you described, won't vote party line. You'll try to analyze what candidates offer, what they can actually do, and how reasonable it is. You'll weight neutral, crazy things a candidate says he will do that you know he can't, and you'll weight positive the things they can do and you think is the right thing and negative on the things that are wrong.

You'll just be skewed left towards what you think is right and wrong.



Chemical engineer and business owner, registered republican and have never voted for one for president. More local office, i weigh in their history.



IF you honestly look at some of the financial issues. Take the infamous obama phone. Republicans would prefer to give the manufacturer of the phone a tax break. Democrats say, no tax break, but we'll throw you a ton of money. Net result, the company earns and keeps the same amount of money. Different route and rehtoric to achieve the same result. The average joe buys into the superficial rhetoric.

Answer 5

"Wedge issue" politics, I think.



I don't know for sure why (SOME) poor people vote Republican. I'm not poor, though I'm not rich either, and the last time I even thought of voting for the GOP was in 1964, which was before I was old enough to vote.



Buy what some apparently intelligent and truthful pollsters & the pundits suggest is that some poor people are cultural conservatives -- some on the issue of race, some on the issue of sexual morality, some on whether religion should be an accepted part of American politics and be taught in the public school. Some poor people are strongly nationalistic and patriotic, too, and generally support the US military no matter what it does.



Many though not all Democrats, for what I think are good reasons, have generally chose to advocate for black people and other nonwhite minorities, for gay rights, and for a strict separation of church & state in American life. Many Democrats -- following an example set by a good number of Republicans, back in the Nixon administration -- also support a woman's right to legal abortion.



Many though not all Democrats -- following the example of a FEW Republicans in the 1960s -- also have been highly critical of what they see as unwise and unnecessary American wars - for example, in Vietnam in the 1960s and 1970s, and in Iraq in 2003.



According to such writers as liberal journalist E.J. Dionne, author of Why Americans Hate Politics, and Kim Phillips-Fein, author of "Invisible Hands: The Growth of the Conservative Movement from the New Deal to Reagan," Republicans since about 1970 have made a point of appealing to poor, culturally conservative ex-Democrats by taking a conservative line on racial integration, school prayer, abortion, women's rights and gay rights in general, and US foreign policy.



That has helped to convert some poor Americans, especially poor evangelical whites, into Republican voters, although they used to favor the Democrats.



-- democratic socialist

Answer 6

So why do poor people vote Republican? The first thing to note is that most of them don't. In 2008 73% of those who earned less than $15,000, 60% of those who earned between $15,000 and $30,000, and 55% of those who earned between $30,000 and $50,000 voted for Obama. This year 57% of those earning less than $36,000 plan to vote Democrat as do 50% of those with a high school diploma or less. Even in deeply conservative Mississippi the overwhelming majority of the poor voted for Obama.

The question of why poor people vote Republican is not simply an issue of income but primarily race and partly region and gender. Poor people may be more likely to vote Democrat; poor white people are not. In 2008 McCain won a slim majority (51%) of white Americans who earn less than $50,000 (this is just below the national median income which is not poor but the only figure available from exit polls that breaks down votes down by race and income), while Obama won a whopping majority of non-whites in the same category (86%). Asked in May which candidate would do more to advance their family's economic interests middle-class white voters who say they are struggling to maintain their financial positions gave Romney a 26 point lead over Obama.

Answer 7

I dont vote republican. I find it very weird that people will side with one party. I will vote for a democrat or republican, I don't care what you are, I'll vote for you if you can get the jobs done. But lately both parties both democrat and republicans aren't doing much in congress right now. But the main problem is, is they just reject bills just to stone wall the other side. What we need to do, to get the corruption out of the States is, instead of having it so that only people with money or endorsements can run for presidency or office, Wasn't it designed for the "people" also not just the politicians? So in my opinion tell me if you guys like this but. For the presidency it would start off at town elections so If people want to run for the Presidency the start at there town, then go to county, winner of county then goes to state elections, then national elections. You would definitely have to set up perimeters so that you can weed out the number as it goes up so that you can end with the one winner. Because then this would make it so the ordinary Joe can do good in office. because sometimes that ordinary Joe is better than a politician, but not always so this could end up being a double edge sword.

Answer 8

Most poor people vote Democrat, but some simply aren't as brainwashed as yourself.



But then, if you're talking about Texas, the majority votes Republican, so yeah, the majority of both the poor and rich are likely voting Republican. Bad example.

Answer 9

I live in Illinois and I'm tired of my state being run by crooks. I'm not saying all Democrats are crooks, but definitely any politician from Chicago is. I think it's hilarious that Bruce Rauner stomped Pat Quinn in EVERY county in the state except Crook, er, I mean Cook. Yeah, Republicans can be big crooks, too. Governor George Ryan was a useless piece of garbage.

I'm kind of in the middle of the road, but I'll vote Republican if it means saving my state or country from a Pat Quinn.

Here are a few views:

Abortion - In cases of rape, or to save the mother's life, sure. Otherwise, if you want a choice, choose not to have unprotected sex with some dirtbag that will leave you alone and pregnant.

Marijuana - I don't use it. I think it's a huge waste of time, money and brain cells. But maybe too much effort goes into arresting and prosecuting potheads.

Immigration - Calling it "undocumented" doesn't make it legal. How many of you would scream and cry if you found out somebody was driving a car with no title or insurance. "Oh, it's not illegal - it's undocumented!"

Same sex marriage - Yeah, OK, if you want. I couldn't hate someone for being gay. I've known a few and they're just as good or bad as straight people. It just depends on the individual. I hate one of the bosses at work not because he's gay, but because he's a back-stabbing scumbag.

Religion - I'm a Christian. I don't have a problem with someone else's religion or lack thereof as long as it doesn't interfere with my rights.



And I drive crappy cars because I don't want to go into huge debt buying some piece of junk that scares the crap out of me.

Answer 10

There's quite a few reasons for this, but it mainly depends on the voter's location. In general, the modern republican party has always targeted the rural population as its core audience. This is mainly due to their lack of affiliation with bureaucratic policies that would affect them within their work environments. In addition, the price of living in rural areas tends to be much less expensive than that of cities and largely populated areas. As a result their location and not being affiliated with big business while instead having jobs like ranching or small business ownership, these people would develop a more privatized sense of their incomes. Without requiring the benefits of health or life coverage that are taxed on people and imposed on large corporations, middle class, rural civilians tend to prefer policies that don't invade on their financial ambitions.



That said, there is a much larger urban population with incomes low enough to desire such intervention by the government, and these populations often tend to lean more democratic. So being poor cant necessarily be a determinant of a peoples political direction. There are, however, many other factors, ranging from education, religious political favoritism, and traditional upbringing which easily affect the political direction of a group of peoples. I could write an essay on each of these reasons but I'm sure they speak for them selves. If you're still are uncertain and want to know more, I highly recommend, as a college student, you take a beginning American government or comparative politics class. I'm a political science - International Relations major myself and have found there to be so many interesting and different reasons behind the divided political direction of the American public. Hope I answered your question :)



-Cheers

Answer 11

Believe it or not, the Republican Party (Conservative) is founded upon the idea of the abolition of slavery.



The Republican Party name was christened in an editorial written by New York newspaper magnate Horace Greeley. Greeley printed in June 1854: "We should not care much whether those thus united (against slavery) were designated 'Whig,' 'Free Democrat' or something else; though we think some simple name like 'Republican' would more fitly designate those who had united to restore the Union to its true mission of champion and promulgator of Liberty rather than propagandist of slavery."



The Republican Party has it's roots firmly in the North.



Abraham Lincoln

http://quod.lib.umich.edu/j/jala/2629860.0028.203/--abraham-lincoln-and-the-triumph-of-an-antislavery?rgn=main;view=fulltext



We do not have a status of Abraham Lincolns here in London's Parliament Square for nothing, he was and is perceived by the British as a founder member of the Abolitionist movement in the USA and is even today, highly regarded on both sides of the pond for his work on behalf of the 'Human Race'.



Abe's statue in Parliament Square looks directly towards Westminster Hall and the House of Commons where in 1807 William Wilberforce MP (Conservative) uttered these immortal words: "There is only one race, the Human Race. And while one of us is a slave, none of us is free."



I'm no way a conservative, but I do understand some of the history and how it might be the root reason why so many folk, rich and poor, vote Republican in the USA and also Conservative (Tory) here in UK.



Whoever you vote for, good luck at the elections.



As for myself, I have taken a slogan from the American Revolutionary War 'Join us or die' and updated it to read, "Vote Labour or Die."



Progressive Socialist

Answer 12

Way to overly generalize. First off all Middle and lower class people would vote republican because the right doesn't believe in taxing working class people into their graves, they don't believe in over regulation and believe in the constitutional rights of Americans. The Republicans to WAY more for the Middle and Lower Middle class than Democrats every have, No if you are at poverty level, in the country illegally or simply to lazy to work and want a handout, THEN the Democrat party can help as they just take from the working, give to the poor and burn the rest.



It's people like you that simply can't see this country for what it is. Try earning 35k a year instead of 250k, and when the government takes most of it, over regulates everything, burns money on people even poorer than you while your struggling to eat, tell me voting Democrat helped. The Republicans believe that people deserve more of their money, and that if they have it, they'll spend it, keeping the economy healthy, take it all and make people run out, our current situation happens.



The government over stepping and literally shaking down the people for "The Good of Society" has proven not to work, their's a word for that, it's called Communism and it doesn't work. Looks great on paper, but put to practice it doesn't turn out that way.



You need to learn the ACTUAL views of both parties, Democrats do a great job if you have disposable income (as you apparently do) and could care less of the gov't overstepping it's authority. I always want to see society succeed, but the Democrat party is slowly trying to Socialize this country, many of them don't hide that anymore.

Answer 13

If you think democrats care about poor people any more than republicans you are foolish. Politicians care about their own pockets, not yours. Taxes are so high right now and with the Obamacare insurance I'm forced to get next year, I will be living in poverty at the age of 26. The economy is terrible, it costs too much to buy food. Pretty soon I will be on welfare and I HATE that. I'm a college student going for my masters degree (2 more years of no job). Luckily, I was able to afford college thanks to STATE RUN SCHOLARSHIPS. If it wasn't for the power of state legislation I would not have been able to afford college. At least republicans still protect state's rights. #politicsisdirty #dirtypoliticians

Answer 14

We do not have a status of Abraham Lincolns here in London's Parliament Square for nothing, he was and is perceived by the British as a founder member of the Abolitionist movement in the USA and is even today, highly regarded on both sides of the pond for his work on behalf of the 'Human Race'.



Abe's statue in Parliament Square looks directly towards Westminster Hall and the House of Commons where in 1807 William Wilberforce MP (Conservative) uttered these immortal words: "There is only one race, the Human Race. And while one of us is a slave, none of us is free."



I'm no way a conservative, but I do understand some of the history and how it might be the root reason why so many folk, rich and poor, vote Republican in the USA and also Conservative (Tory) here in UK.



Whoever you vote for, good luck at the elections.



As for myself, I have taken a slogan from the American Revolutionary War 'Join us or die' and updated it to read, "Vote Labour or Die."

Answer 15

I'm glad I'm not in the "most Republican" category like you listed, as I'm simply a middle class conservative with an advanced degree(From a state school) that accepts that science explains "How", but not necessarily "Why", though I am a Christian. I do like how superior you are to all of us lowly, self-centered republicans. I mean we NEVER think of others. We NEVER try to help anyone b/c trying to get folks to take responsibility for their lives and get them to be productive only helps out my family. I mean most Repubs have never offered to help anyone. It's a good thing we've got you good, socially inclined, morally upright democrats b/c I don't know where we'd be as a country without you (please not dripping sarcasm at your smug arrogance)



As for why poor people vote republican, maybe it's because those poor folks are ok with many of the republican stances. I know many poor folks that vote democrat by the way. I know many middle and upper class folks that vote both ways too. Socioeconomic status has little bearing on ones political leanings. Generally it's more of a philosophy.



Duke

Answer 16

Hmm... Your question is very skewed. Also your question shows your arrogance that you are rich. You might have college degrees but you surely are not wise.

Your question also shows your ignorance about our nation. You know only the demographics of the two cities you lived in so far.

Where I live, poor vote for democratic party. There are rich (monetary) democrats as well as republicans.

For a person to help others, they have to be human. not democrat or republican

Answer 17

To paraphrase John Steinbeck, There are no poor people in America, just temporarily embarrassed millionaires.



People often do not vote in their own best interests.



Hopefully US politics can become less polarized and people and politicians will realize no one person or party has a monopoly on good ideas. People and politicians need to vote for the changes that will improve lives. Not vote for or against legislation based on which party put it forward to begin with.

Answer 18

Many though not all Democrats, for what I think are good reasons, have generally chose to advocate for black people and other nonwhite minorities, for gay rights, and for a strict separation of church & state in American life. Many Democrats -- following an example set by a good number of Republicans, back in the Nixon administration -- also support a woman's right to legal abortion.



Many though not all Democrats -- following the example of a FEW Republicans in the 1960s -- also have been highly critical of what they see as unwise and unnecessary American wars - for example, in Vietnam in the 1960s and 1970s, and in Iraq in 2003.



According to such writers as liberal journalist E.J. Dionne, author of Why Americans Hate Politics, and Kim Phillips-Fein, author of "Invisible Hands: The Growth of the Conservative Movement from the New Deal to Reagan," Republicans since about 1970 have made a point of appealing to poor, culturally conservative ex-Democrats by taking a conservative line on racial integration, school prayer, abortion, women's rights and gay rights in general, and US foreign policy.



That has helped to convert some poor Americans, especially poor evangelical whites, into Republican voters, although they used to favor the Democrats.

Answer 19

Most Republicans have taken a stand on abortion and same-sex marriage. It is God who says "do not shed innocent blood" and "man shall not lie with mankind as with womankind; it is an abomination."



This is the contributing factor for the poor voting republican. How can a Christian vote against the Word of God? When the man makes this stance and it is usually a republican, then he will receive the Christian vote. In my father's day a democrat was for the poor and the republican for the rich; this is no longer the case. Republicans want the less fortunate to be taken care of also, but they refuse to agree with abortion and same-sex marriage. Also, Mormonism is a false religion to a Christian and we will always favor the Christian running for office.



When we vote, we cannot leave our Christianity at the door. Christ goes with me everywhere. And He promises never to leave me or forsake me.

Christians do not vote their money or at least true Christians do not. Many claim to be Christians and they make strange votes. Voting against God is like denying the Lord - this I cannot do. In today's world, it is hard for a Christian to know who the man running really is. A politician that lies is a very dangerous man. He carries the spirit of antichrist.

Answer 20

The Republican party is a scam the rich 1% are running to make them even richer.



There are only 3 types of people that vote Republican, the rich, the suckers and the racists. Given that there are not enough rich people so that the Republicans can with with only the rich vote, everyone else are either the suckers or the racists.

Answer 21

For a variety of reasons, but chiefly because many among the poor still have a healthy suspicion of Leftist politics and policies (while well-intentioned to help the poor, they quite often do just the opposite, by creating a dependent class that ends up with social dysfunctions and consequently permanently poor [see "The Great Society," or "The War on Poverty"); and because they realize that Republicans are the party that favors free-market economics, and that free-market economics have been proven by the historical record to be the best way to lift people out of poverty (see China and India).

Answer 22

I might not be exactly "poor". I live paycheck to meager paycheck. I guess I would be Upper Lower class. I tend to vote republican because, for as long as I can remember, Dems seem to want to handout money to the poor. Yes, that could mean me but I don't believe that handouts are the answer. If I am able to work, but choose not to, I should not be able to collect money. I don't feel that would make me a good person. I follow the Christian views of my upbringing which say that we should help the poor but also "...he who shall not work, nor shall he eat." This would tell me that if I am able to work but won't, I should not receive either. In this instance the 'poor' would be those that CAN'T work. I'm not trying to say that everyone should be Christian or that the Dems are not, just that that is my reasoning for why I tend to go Republican. Not always, but I find myself more and more leaning that way.

Answer 23

Why such a condescending question? Why are pro-abortion, pro-stem cell research, and anti-gun rights all liberal ideals, while conservatives are on the opposite side. What do those things have to do with each other? It seems liberals should be pro stem cell (life rights), pro gun control (life rights), and anti abortion (life rights). Instead it's a hodge podge.



Conservative, Liberal, Republican, Democrat, etc are all made up groups of people. I don't think ideals have too much to do with it. Why can't a person choose and vote based on their ideals instead of some cookie cutter group that was made to take their vote?



Instead people are so ignorant that they will defend someone affiliated with their political group even if they don't agree with them. Democrat Smith blew up the moon, well, I must agree with blowing up the moon since I am a democrat. Republican Jones dried up the oceans, well, I must agree with drying up the oceans too since I am a republican. Totally absurd.



Also - over long periods of time the ideals of the parties fluctuate to whatever gets them the best chance at winning.



I've known "republican" atheists, and I've also known "democrat" religious people. It's not as cut and dry as the parties want you to believe, but the people who do follow parties without reasoning are mindless drones.

Answer 24

Here are a few possible reasons.



1. They are racist.

2. They are rich.

3. They aspire to be rich one day.

4. They vote based on personality rather than issues.

5. They are stupid.

6. They generally lack empathy.

7. They are deeply religious and cannot support the pro choice party.

8. They are deeply religious and cannot support the pro-gay party.

9. They don't take voting all that seriously.

10. They know the particular Republican candidate and like him/her personally.

Answer 25

Largely due to religious beliefs and that Republicans regulate Morality whereas Democrats Do not.



Also Most poor republicans are BIG TIME supporters of the military and second amendment.

Answer 26

In case you've missed the massive arrogance of your question I'll point it out by reversing it: Why do rich people vote democratic? Assumed within your question is the assumption that people should vote how you perceptive their economic interests should lie. But, if that was the case, shouldn't all rich, or well to do, people vote republican (according to the logic of your question)? If any answer you give to the question falls outside of economic interest than you've violated the assumption of your own question. If you vote democratic because you want to help other people you're voting via your values, not your economic interests. People vote for the party that they think more closely aligns with their values (if it does, or not, is another subject).

Answer 27

You know, Tex, I am fascinated by these questions about voters based on their economic status, their skin color, the political leaning, etc. I vote for candidates and issues. I have to show my voter card so the pollster can confirm I am on the register to vote, and then I go in a booth and vote. I do not put down my wages, my race, my political leaning or anything else on that ballot. I believe it is called a secret vote.

These fascinating questions are based on what people think they learn from polls. People lie on polls, or massage the numbers to make the people happy who pay for the polls. I do not believe in polls. If you want to know what these alleged poor people vote Republican, ask them. I hear there are a lot down there.

Answer 28

When you are poor and you go to your minimum wage job and you see people picking up 4 or 5 times as much on benefits that makes you want to vote republican.

Answer 29

My husband and I are conservatives (religiously, financially, and politically). We both went to “Christian” colleges. I graduated summa *** laude, and went on to get my M.S. with a 4.o GPA. My husband’s career enables us to live quite comfortably (significantly above the level you gave), yet we live rather simply (maybe our house isn’t “crappy,” but it isn’t new) so that we can have money to give to CHARITY.



Now, let’s talk about these “poor people” who live in “crappy houses.” I grew up in such a “crappy house,"- a mobile home in fact. (Do you realize how insulting you’re being to the poor without meaning it?) We know some of the “poor people” that you’re talking about, and we also know a lot of people who are quite comfortable. You see, many conservative actually do quite well in business and financial fields, as well as in law or medicine. We tend to be rather serious folks, and we’re pretty good (in many cases) at handling money. Statistically, we conservatives also give quite a lot to charity. You see, Democrats often VOTE to give the PUBLIC’S money to charity, but conservatives often give their own.



You REALLY need to get out of your comfort zone and get to know some of “the poor.” You’ll find that there are aging farmers, hardworking welders, young couples just starting out, folks who are disabled, as well as those who’ve made some pretty bad life decisions and are reaping the consequences. There are a good many folks who may look “poor” on paper, but may have a decent house (although you might think it “crappy,” they’re proud of it), a nice garden, and a herd of cows or goats. Others became “poor” because of some type of catastrophe or serious illness. Some became “poor” voluntarily, such as the neo-homesteaders who often give up good careers to move back to the land.



But, why would a “poor” person vote Republican? Here are some reasons:

1. Because they believe that abortion is killing a baby.

2. Because they value independence and fear big government

3. Because they WORK HARD, and they resent their hard-earned money going to those who consistently make poor life-choices and to a bloated government where waste and corruption are rampant

4. Because they value morality, or they are pro-family

5. Because they believe that a strong military is necessary to our nation’s safety

6. Because they consider “welfare” a last-resort, and a disgrace

7. Because they value religion in their lives

8. Because they know that if a society has too many financial “takers” and not enough “givers,” that society will fail, and that too much “redistribution” may make the jobs-creators in our society just quit trying OR move their businesses elsewhere.

9. Because they are small business owners or small farmers who are increasingly being threatened by more and more and more burdensome regulations.

10. Because many of them were alive when Communism was at its peak, and they FEAR the oppression, starvation, and terror that it brought to the people.



There are probably other reasons; these are just some. Really, though, no matter if you’re a Democrat or a Republican or an Independent, you really need to get off the college campus and get to know the people you call "the poor." You also need to develop some respect for others, and learn to see things from different points of view. That is the mark of intelligence and a well-rounded person.

Answer 30

I am a hard working American not rich or certainly not poor and I would not vote for a Democrat if they paid me 1 million dollars. This Dem party and the current administration has to be one of the dirtiest of all time. They have done nothing but lie since they took office. The last 8 years will live in infamy as one of darkest times in American politics. So many scandals so little time.

Answer 31

Poor people vote in both parties but since I m from Texas, there are a few facts you missed and did so intentionally I believe. First the Hispanic and Black poor, if they vote, predominately vote DEMOCRAT nation wide. Second, your myopic view of the world is condescending at best. Third, Austin usually votes Democrat so why is there POVERTY in Austin? Third, Houston, Dallas, San Antonio, and most of the state suffers from the influx of illegal aliens who have nothing more than minimal job skills and drop out of school at higher rates than others. And finally, you should go work for Obama. You are about as in touch with the poor as he is. The poor have become poorer under his watch. THOSE are FACTS. And also, I noticed you had to resort to the usual Democrat response when challenged by calling a detractor an idiot. Yes, that is DEFINITELY the sign of an INTELLIGENT COLLEGE student.

Answer 32

You couldn't be more wrong, and your question is grossly slanted!!!!



Poor people, in the United States anyway, are predominantly Democratic and vote along those party lines. Just take a look at Detroit Michigan if you don't believe me. There are plenty of other Democratically-run cities in the USA that are on the brink of bankruptcy.



We don't know what you're actually after here, but it wasn't the truth!

Answer 33

As far as I know it is only the conservatives that votes republican. These people has a acceptance towards bullying people of a different race, religion or background, or just because they have a different personality. These conservatives are normally white, some are black (very few). These conservatives have a very strong military background and eat sleep and breath military. They were born for the military. They also have a KKK background and secret society illuminati background.

Answer 34

You know, you might get more respect, not to mention better answers, if you didn't slam republicans in the process. Seriously, remember you're representing democrats when you hate on others. Also, I'm pretty sure that the poor generally vote Democrat anyway.

Answer 35

There are many who are of the conservative Christian set who believe the Republican party platform best represents them for example, pro-life, limited government, anti homosexual agenda(whom the Democrats support) Pro Christian values, they are the only "poor" that support the Republicans. But most of them aren't really poor they would be classified as middle income, I guess the little man instead of "poor". Some of them are workers who do not like unions. Recently the constitutionalists and the state rights or what people recognize as the TEA PARTY have surfaced, but many of them don't really care for the mainstream Republican party either.

Answer 36

Really simple: Ignorance combined with gullibility and blind faith in certain ideas. Propaganda and demagoguery work! The airwaves (both TV (Fox News) and radio (AM)) are filled almost daily if not daily with conservative and Republican ideology. It's entertaining, it sounds good, but much of it is simply unrealistic or outright false. Over the last nearly 30 years since removal of the Fairness Doctrine, the airwaves have been filled with entertaining right-wing conservative ideology that has resulted in the loss of several trillions of dollars of wealth from the middle-class to the upper-class. And, it continues to this day!



If I had to pinpoint one single fallacy that poor conservatives support against their own best interests, it's uneven taxation, where the wealthy (although they do pay most of the taxes) pay far fewer taxes than they could afford in comparison to the middle-class. They don't take their savings and then create jobs as Supply Side ("Trickle-down") economics claims. In fact, they KEEP most of their money and then compete with each other for Forbes' Wealthiest list. They also use their money to liquidate American companies and ship the jobs overseas where they can then make even MORE money by exploiting cheaper labor. Finally, they remove much of their saved money completely from the American economy and save it in offshore banks where it will never create jobs for Americans, will never be used (through taxation) to improve and upgrade America's infrastructure, will never be donated to charity. (The fact that conservatives donate more for charity than progressives has NOT prevented growing poverty and wealth disparity in the US.)



The poor who vote Republican either aren't shown these facts, or they simply refuse to face them. (Humans can ignore or filter through rose-colored glasses any facts they so choose, until such time that they must either face them or be destroyed!)

Answer 37

Because poor people are better off under a republican government than a democratic government

Answer 38

Because republicans give jobs and democrats just hand out money. Those poor people are smart, instead of having money just handed to them and draining the rest of the nation dry from taxes they actually get off there butt and help versus poor people who vote democrat and let the government baby them.

Answer 39

I must say I'm more than a bit surprised by your classifying people purely on the basis of their political leanings., a mistake usually made by people with meager educational exposure and I would wager your engineering education lacks any exposure to "the humanities" or to philosophical coursework.



I also think the facts are very different from what you claim. The votes of the lower classes (uneducated) in every election since LB Johnson (the creator of "the Great Society") have gone to the democrats. I suspect your mistaken view is based on your exposure to academics who almost always take the position that what currently exists is no good and needs to be actively destroyed (but such folks almost never have any conception of what the alternative should be - they just want things to be "different").



Good luck in your engineering career.

Answer 40

Even though republicans today are far more left leaning than in the past, some still have core values. Unlike democrats who have lost their souls and abandoned their values for power. Some republicans believe in the value of the human being and not the state. Free markets benefit rich and poor alike unlike the sort of cradle to grave dependency that the democrats espouse.

Answer 41

"I live in Texas and I could tell you that most conservatives are religious, anti science lunatics who live in lower middle class households in rural areas and never went to college (or went to a christian "college." )"



I work with nationally representative data for a living and can tell you based on a scientific analysis of the data (while you are working with anecdotes) that the luming of religion and anti-science together does not make sense. Religious people are by and large not anti-science and non-religious people are not significantly more scientifically literate than Christians. However, Jews according to one study are more scientifically literate than non-religious people. Republicans and democrats do not differ in their scientific literacy. There are some issues where republicans disagree with mainstream scientists, and there are other issues where democratcs disagree with mainstream scientists.



Democrats are more urban and more educated than republicans. It is however not the case, that democrats are overwhelmingly more educated than republicans.



As for your snark toward Christian colleges, I would encourage you to look at rankings. Several Christian colleges and colleges with Christian foundations are in the Ivy League, elite ranking, top 20, and top 100 globally. They often outrank secular colleges, contribute to scholarship, and outproduce secular universities in raising up future scholars and producing academic publications.



As for why some poor people vote republican, it may have to do with culture. There are poor demographics that also vote heavily democratic.



Just for the record, I am not a republican or a democrat.

Answer 42

The fact is most Republicans aren't poor and don't vote against their own interests. People who make 50K+ plus broke heavily for Romney in 2012.

I live in Austin myself, I like it despite it being dry and loaded with Leftists. There's a lot of economic activity here, which is the main reason I came, that, and a low groid population.

Answer 43

It is not that poor people vote for republicans, but that poor people do not vote.

Answer 44

Democrats don't "take from the rich and give to the poor" as most Republicans seem to think they do. 83 people on Earth have 60% of the wealth. Most of us live in poverty despite the fact that we are middle class "citizens" while the rich tout "responsible people" and give money -- tax free -- to the Koch brothers who only perpetuate that ignorance...



People living in shitty shacks don't know any better, just like nurses here in Virginia who vote all 100% Republican, despite the fact that Republicans almost always vote down women's rigths and abortion rights.



It's ignorance of the facts that drives people to vote Republican, yet live in poverty and the fact they don't like black people...ask a nurse...

Answer 45

I cannot speak for everybody but I am poor, I went to a Christian college and the last democrat I voted for was Doukakis. Not because he was a democrat but because he struck me as more sincere than that old weasel Bush sr. I now consider myself a single issue voter. The life of the unborn is, in my estimation, a civil rights issue. The time will come that killing babies before they are born will be seen for what it is. A violation of the constitution because it denies life, which is guaranteed by the constitution. This issue is on par with denying freedom to the blacks because of their race. My pocketbook is not important enough to make me vote democrat in light of this genocide that is going on under the blessing of every democrat judge and politician.

Answer 46

1. On average conservatives are more intellegent then liberals. Largest number of HS dropouts are democrats

2. Historically the overall economy does better when Republicans contol the House

3. Your discription of "most conservstives" is just a stupid

liberal stereotype that has no basis in reality



Source

Life long independent from Texas

Answer 47

Usually poor people vote democrat because they take from the rich and give to the poor. So you have it backwards.



Democrat is not the good of society. Republicans aren't either, but at least they are closer than the democrats

Answer 48

Because some people prefer to support a party that wants to create economic opportunities rather than to give handouts. Also Republicans are a better shot at smaller government, stronger military and immigration control. Important issues.

Answer 49

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Blease Graham is more a Democrat than a political scientist (“GOP in S.C. House Tells D.C. to F Off,” March 11). No wonder he sympathizes with the Black Caucus on their stand about the requirement of an ID card to vote. You need an ID card to cash a check, to drive a car, etc. Voting for who should represent you is much more important.



Eruch T. Tata

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Tameika for Mayor? 
No Thanks







I regularly like to read what Kevin Fisher writes. Normally I have nothing to rebut. But this time I must respectfully disagree with Mr. Fisher if he is asking for Tameika Devine to run for mayor (City Watch, “Mayor, Mayor on the Wall,” March 11).



Personally, I’d like for the councilwoman to run from it. First, she is a horrible councilwoman. Maybe it’s not all her fault, but Devine and the gang have really messed up some money. I was named in a Free Times piece by Eric Ward as having “blasted” Devine, Cromartie, the former city manager and others for wasting loads of tax money on a stupid and putrid so-called gang study. Little tweens could see we had a gang problem. A 2-year-old could have figured it out. But a lawyer can’t? Or is it a lawyer that is too obstinate to appreciate the truth? And Mr. Fisher thinks I want someone like that to run as my next mayor?



I’m all for making history. But that person has to first earn that right and then live up to it. Devine meets neither criteria. What would be even worse is to see Mr. Cromartie throw his big hat in the mayoral ring. In my opinion, Mayor Bob Coble is almost out the door and I suggest the others “man up” and get out also while the going is good.

Answer 50

The main reason is moral policies such as abortion, gay marriage etc. However these people are wising up and realizing republican does not equal conservative moral values,.To vote for a republican is to vote for a democrat most the time now.

Answer 51

Democrats do not care about the poor either, so what's the point of your question? Democrats pretend to care for votes, it's an act. It's the same regardless of political beliefs, because they are all crooks and phonies.



The truth, this country was founded on individualism and doing for yourself. Sounds pretty Republican doesn't it? Maybe those people hold onto those principles. Maybe not everyone wants to mooch off the government like DEMOCRATS???

Answer 52

Voting Republican is not registering Republican.

Answer 53

Instead of worrying about why people vote the way they do, why don't you be a good little Democrat and give the poor people in your area your money, like you expect the Republicans to do? I mean, aren't Democrats supposed to give all their hard earned money away, instead of lining their pockets with the money earned?

Answer 54

Because anyone who has had to apply for dipstick welfare KNOWS it is economic STAGNATION. At least there is work when REAL republicans are in charge. By REAL republicans I mean NOT the RINO republicans who are in fact democrats lying to voters about party affiliation to defeat their will and steal their representative vote by deception. Democrats are NOT democrats anymore. They're Socialists. Socialism has stagnated OR bankrupted EVERY coutry it's been imposed in. ALL of Europe is RUNNING away from it.

Answer 55

Poor people vote Conservative because they know taking responsibility for their future will enable them to create a more prosperous future for themselves than whining about how they are entitled to welfare. How they are entitled to leech off others. If the country doesn't survive there will be no place where they can be responsible for their future. The Left's Utopia turns out not we are equally Rich, but miserably poor.

Edit If you are doing so well why don't YOU give more charity personally rather than feel you have the right to force others to give? You don't have the right to extort others assets to imply you are a good person. You are a theft.

Answer 56

I think the answer is because the gap between rich and poor always seems to get wider under Democratic government. Division always seems to become greater under Democratic government. Racism has always been firmly entrenched in left wing politics. The KKK was founded and supported by Democrats. Republicans tried to end slavery for decades and every attempt was blocked by guess who, yep that's right, Democrats!



So all in all do the poor think they would be better off under Democrats than Republicans? Hell no. But it is better to be poor in a destitute State with God than to be rich in a powerful but completely corrupt Godless sewer with no morals where the fabric of the nation is breaking down under great division.



Poor Republicans are clever enough to know that the science is never settled, that the rubbish they teach in schools today is not the same as yesterday, that the Democratic leadership of the US has been the most corrupt in living history and involved in numerous scandals, and that the country is heading in completely the wrong direction. Oh and patronizing and superiority complexes wont help in your cause to pimp for the Democrats. The Democrats are a party for the rich elites, corporate interests and fascists. You only have to look at who backs and supports them to realize that.

Answer 57

And after reading your stupid question, many more people rich or poor will be voting Republican.

Answer 58

Because wee's republicans ain't got no good education. Praise the messiah baby Jesus! I' m agnostic too btw.



BUT! actually statically richer people vote republican for tax breaks and because they do not need socially programs. I'm lower middle class I do not get any free stuff from the government I mainly vote republican for tax breaks. I can't afford vacations. I cant even afford Obama care I pay the bills and play on a computer look see =]. I have to make student loans for college because I make to much money, I don't get free college like most of my poorer friends without two parents. So I cannot go to a good college because it costs to much I cannot afford more debt from student loans. So I go to a crappy community college. I have to work hard. So that's why I vote republican, at least they help me get tax breaks, cause I don't get **** else. Also I'm a lower middle class young single white male so that doesn't help me get **** either, I feel stuck in my position in this new society honestly.

Answer 59

Right, and just throwing money at people to buy their votes has worked out so well for the poor, they are being enslaved by the very people they vote for, who have a vested interest in keeping things just the way they are. Sorry you have to put some effort into your life, it's not up to others to do it for you, sorry I think I just gave a lot of libs a headache.

Answer 60

For the same reason a poor person would vote Democrat. They think that party most closely agrees with their beliefs and will best protect their interests.

Answer 61

Because not all poor people are attracted to class warfare rhetoric and policies. Not all poor people are jealous of the rich; not all think that they are poor *because of* the rich.

Not everyone votes for self-interest; some truly do vote for the sake of defining an ideal of justice, and not all poor people think that it is "unjust" that they are poor.



"I live in Texas and I could tell you that most conservatives are religious, anti science lunatics who live in lower middle class households in rural areas and never went to college (or went to a christian 'college.')"

Of course when I see anybody say anything like that, I know that they bigoted and unintelligent.



"I also major mechanical engineering and finance at a University here in Austin."

Did the let you finish college even though you can't write a complete sentence?



"I vote democrat in order to help people because I think of the good of society, not just the good for my family and my future myself."

It's good that you know that voting is not about voting for self-interest, but not every single poor person in the United States has to agree with you that it is "good for society" to tax the rich in order to pay for programs that don't effectively "help" the poor.

Answer 62

Reading a study a few days ago that found that conservatives average intelligence, measure in IQ, is well below that of Liberals. Conservatives look for simple solutions, not necessarily based on research, facts or even good sense. That's why their policies fail every time. They don't want to learn from their mistakes.

Answer 63

I – and a good portion of people I know – are more in your category (wealth / education) – and we generally vote either Libertarian or Republican. Obviously, it is easier for you to try and bait someone with rhetoric versus using actual statistics. Hopefully, I have done a better job of teaching my children how to view others than what you have expressed.

Answer 64

That isn't true, most poor people vote Democratic, but it depends on where they live too. We need liberals in office, not Democrats, Democrats don't stand for liberal values. Liberal values are Freedom of Speech, Freedom of the Press, Freedom of religion, supportive of gun rights, and pro-drug legalization. Democrats say they support freedom of speech, but are trying to prevent people from saying certain things, people are trying to take Fox and Rush off the air because their excuse is they are hateful(hate speech is still free speech, removing Fox from the air would violate the first amendment, because you'd be limiting options for people's access to the press), freedom of religion(to practice your religion openly, this part is the fault of Republicans who have oppressed all religions except Christianity in many southern states). Democrats have frequently campaigned against legalization of marijuana.

Answer 65

You admit to having a strong education and career income. It is not clear if the subjects which you report "major", i.e. Mechanical Engineering and Finance have generated your wealth which via your report would be well in excess of $300K per year. With an admitted association with finance, it is surprising that capitalism offers the "poor" a chance to escape, by their own hands and not the government. That is not a canard. Ones faith is real and important. You might assist the people who are your object of concern by a charitable donation that it is not restrained.

Answer 66

Many though not all Democrats, for what I think are good reasons, have generally chose to advocate for black people and other nonwhite minorities, for gay rights, and for a strict separation of church & state in American life. Many Democrats -- following an example set by a good number of Republicans, back in the Nixon administration -- also support a woman's right to legal abortion.

Answer 67

It's an improperly posed question and backwards, the poor generally vote Democratic since they are misinformed on most issues and believe the Dems are giving them more goodies than the Repubs. Look at the Black population, they do not believe Obama produced for them in the first term but still went 97% for him even though he did nothing for them, race trumped logic. Obama routinely speaks of taking care of the lower income voter where he did very well in votes yet his devaluation of the dollar is causing the loss of purchasing power. The Dems do well with the poor, unions, and intellectual elites who pose questions like this to make themselves feel good and whose social policies trap the poor and economic policies are disastrous, just look at the number of folks out of work, an all time high. Its the flyover country conservatives and libertarians who are educated and smart that keep the country going with new jobs and private sector taxes that are preyed by government and are becoming extinct thanks to anti business Democratic policies. The question is not valid from the get go, it may prove true from a degree perspective, but in this day and age one must look at what those degrees translate to in terms of "success". Community colleges have taken the place of high schools since they have been dumbed down so education at many schools in not really worth that much and some university degrees are frankly not worth the paper they are printed on.

Answer 68

Democrats spend money and raise taxes, Republicans usually cut taxes. Obama turned this Democrat into a republican.

Answer 69

well first of all you say you "used to live" in Houston, and not that you were born there or even grew up there, so you really don't know what's going on there. Next, define "crappy" for us. And, people used to vote for democrats because they were either poor prople or who could not speak for themselves because of not a lot of education so the unions would stick up for that group of people. It just so happens that the unions are in the north and corporations are in the south so how you could be in TX and see things a northern way is just weird on your part. That being said, your first paragraph, plus your low class verbiage tells it all, that you don't know what you're talking about. It's just the opposite, poor people vote democratic.

Answer 70

Because they realize that if they were to vote for Liberals they would be forced to accept homosexuality, fake science, horrible school lunches, and a life of poverty..

Here in NY we have one poor neighborhood full of uneducated people after the other, and they all have one thing in common.. they vote for Liberal Democrats

Answer 71

If poor people ever want to have the opportunities that "rich" people have, they better vote Republican because it is the party of self-reliance and success. Stop me when I'm wrong . . . Democrats receive a large majority of government aid, Dems receive a large majority of government paychecks (teachers, cops, firefighters, government workers, and others who rely on tax dollars to pay their wages), and the overwhelming majority of unemployed call themselves Democrats. "Poor" is a choice except for those who are unable to learn or function. For them, their are much needed programs that offer aid. It's the free-loaders and government thugs that ruin the system and cost our society so much. Dems rely on a dumbed-down electorate and scare tactics so that they will remain in power and so they can keep creating policies that promote mediocrity and hold people down.

Answer 72

Not all of them do. In my area, even though I live in a mainly Republican-leaning area, the people with the lower incomes are actually more likely to vote Democrat.

Answer 73

Why do so many poor Black people and rich Jewish people vote for Democrats who hate Blacks and Jews?



60% of Black pregnancies in New York end in abortion.



Obama obviously hates Jews and Israel.



Black unemployment is through the roof.



The White House interferes in Israeli elections.



Why do these people support the party that tries to destroy them?

Answer 74

You sound like the typical liberal douchebag voter, whose policy views depend more upon how you feel about policies than if they actually help people or do what you want them to do. That you feel good about it is the extent of your caring.



You claim they are anti-science, but you probably only base that on evolution. Or perhaps you think climate change (which used to be called global warming, but reality didn't comport with the theory) is settled science.



You also sound like one of those tools who doesn't understand the difference between education and intelligence. Not everybody who is intelligent is able to attend college, and not everybody who attends college is intelligent.



What a clearly immature person like you fails to understand is that Democrats don't care about you, either. They're just saying sh*t to fool you into voting for them. Clearly, you've been fooled. You assume that the policies of the Democrats help the poor, and that's when you stop caring about them. You simply assume that, say, raising the minimum wage helps the poor, but ignore that it reduces the employment opportunities for the poor and unskilled young workers who need that entry level job to gain valuable job skills they can in turn use to get better jobs. But, like in this example, your caring about the poor was only really about you feeling good about yourself for doing that; you don't really care if it helped them or not.



Your silly, juvenile belief that conservatives don't care about the poor or that Republican policies don't help the poor is more based on your low level of worldly knowledge and experience, and your ignorance of human nature. But that's OK. Many people on the right were once just as young, naïve, uninformed and inexperienced as you, and thought just as you do. But then we gained knowledge and grew up.

Answer 75

politicians basically all want the same thing... votes... to get votes they have to do things to make people like them... both sides look to help the poor to get votes and have taken very different approaches to it. republicans look to grow business so that people are able to get jobs and put the power in the hands of state and local governments to solve their individual problems as opposed to a "national standard" which assumes everyone's problems to be the same...



democrats generally believe that big business is the problem and so they create more restrictions on them which they think will ultimately help the poor. they also believe that a large extremely powerful national government as opposed to states are the way to solve problems (they assume that individuals aren't competent enough to know whats good for them). democrats are fans of direct handouts such as welfare and obamacare instead of jobs where people can provide for themselves. finally democrats believe that wealth redistribution is the way to help the poor which is why they favor such high taxes on people who they think make more than they deserve



as for who people vote for it really depends on race age gender etc some poor people agree with the republican view while others like the free handouts from the goverment

Answer 76

The government would classify me as poor-----financially. Personally, I really don't care WHAT the government thinks of my personal finances. Money is NOT the prime motivation in my life. Education IS. And, so is the FREEDOM to obtain as much education as I please. I donate to charity FAR more than Democrats would consider wise---considering my financial situation. So, I look at their greedy unions, demanding ever more money---regardless of the financial harm caused to the country---and I find it impossible to believe Democrats give a damn about people in need. At least Republicans demand every person be given an equal CHANCE to succeed. Democrats want to destroy individual freedom and liberty-----for the good of society, of course. And, of course, Hitler said the same thing. And, of course, Stalin said the same thing. And, of course, Mao said the same thing. And, of course, so are American Democrats. Why do you think you are compared to Socialists and Communists?

Answer 77

Thank you! Thank you for admitting that not all Republicans are rich fat cats, and for showing that the Democrats are indeed the party of the rich elites. I knew this all along, but it's been hard to convince certain others.



(By the way, you know that you can help people without the government as the middleman, right?)

Answer 78

I have a Bachelors of Science from the University of Utah. I graduated 12 years ago. Today, I'm currently making 32k a year and get no bonuses of any kind. Had I known in the past of what my future after college would be, I would have never went to college.

Answer 79

It's a mystery! The world over people vote for parties whose only objective is to benefit the super-rich. Every time the Right-wing are handed the reins of power they immediately set about making poor people even more-so! They destroy jobs, create economic conditions which drive many more businesses into failure than the Left and increase poverty and misery year on year! Perhaps the super-rich owning the media has a lot to do with it.



When you stop believing the media, you begin to see the truth ... eventually.

Answer 80

Most people, like in most things, are ignorant about politics and current agendas. They just go by what they sort of hear other friends and family members say. Republicans would have us all working for $2 a day if they could. They represent the core of corporate greed and deregulation.

Answer 81

People vote Republican because they believe in opportunity, people vote Democrat because they believe in equality. Allow me to choose and I'll choose opportunity over equality all day long.

Answer 82

Ive never made more than 32,000 a yr and despite that, i own my own home, and its a nice home too, 2 paid for cars and dont owe but about 500.00 bucks on credit cards, I splurged a little bit last year when wife and I took a 2 week vacation in Florida. Cause see, i can live on what most folks throw out. It s nothing to do with what you make, its what you dont spend, Try it, you ll like it.

Answer 83

Most who do know it's not the governments job to provide for them, it's your job this is known as personal

responsibility.

As for people who vote democrat based on helping people and the bible it's says you are responsible for that

not the collective this is where charities can get the job done better than government.



If you feel the need to help people do it on your own time or start a charity to help people or volunteer at a

shelter or human society don't tax people because you feel the need to "help" .

Answer 84

Republicans pander to the poor religous, white, anti- abortionist who do not want the Federal Governmet ( eqaul rights and oversight ) in their towns or states. This is from a Southerner who knows the workings of the buisneses and the city government. The further south you go the worse it gets.

Answer 85

Living in TX, you ought to know that we (Texans) have more illegal aliens here than any other state. They siphon off our money and send it to Mexico without paying taxes.They have free schooling (and school supplies), free medical care, EBT and WIC, and because they will work cheaply for fear of being reported to INS, they take the jobs once held by American citizens. We also have MS13 and the Zetas here, thanks to the open borders and I suspect that one of these days, the terrorists who are here will target Houston, Austin, Dallas, and other cities of note. While TX does have a mini oil boom going in Midland and Odessa, it won't go anywhere because our beloved President, Urkel, won't allow the U.S. to build its oil reserves. If you believe that all conservatives are "poor", you should come to Dallas and drive around in Jerry Jones' and Mark Cuban's neighborhoods. While there are some wealthy Democrats, there are equally as many wealthy conservatives who have households with live-in servants, multiple expensive vehicles, send their children to private schools (some in Europe), and run multi-billion dollar corporations. We are not all ignorant religious zealots who live in rural areas and never finished college. We do have S.M.U., Univ. of TX @ Dallas, Univ. of Dallas, and U.T. Southwestern Medical School. If you claim to believe in helping society, what are you personally doing about it? Are you donating a major part of your so-called wealth to build orphanages in Africa, providing funds for helping the elderly and disabled in the northeastern states in the wake of this past winter, or setting up scholarships for children in the Appalachians to attend college? Why don't you, as an Austin citizen, petition your state legislators to improve the miserable state of our public schools (which rank 49th in the nation), or help to get medical insurance through the ACA for people who can't otherwise be insured? If you believe it's too much trouble to do those kinds of things which you profess to believe in, then you're nothing more than a blow-hard hypocrite. Put your money where your mouth is.

Answer 86

The poor are the majority, so if they voted Republican, then how did Obama get elected twice???



Most poor don't vote Republican. Most of the poor are the peasants who vote for their extremely wealthy elite Democrat slave owners so they can get government handouts. Republicans are independent people, working middle class and small business owners, who believe that government should play a smaller role in our daily lives.

Answer 87

Consider this Obama is a Millionaire , the Clinton are Millionaire's both of em

John Kerry is a multi-millionaire , Kennedy's are millionaires

BECAUSE THEY ARE STEALING FROM THE POOR PEOPLE

AND WE CAN'T VOTE FOR MORE STEALING , SO WE MUSH VOTE REP TO GET RID OF THESE

ROBBER BARRI-ANS

Answer 88

The republican party has something for everyone. They're pro gun and pro God. And that tends to appeal to the poor. But they are also all about lowering taxes and shrinking government. And that appeals to the rich.

Personally, I lean to the left, but I'm far from wealthy.

Answer 89

Speaking as a poor person. We have no idea who we vote for or why. We just listen to what a candidate says, And pray they really mean what they say.

Answer 90

I come from a lower class Republican family. Then I had some life experience, some education and realized the GOP wanted me only for cannon fodder. So I quit. I'm not a Dem; Dems are just GOP-lite. I guess I'm an Independent who loves to mock Republicans!

Answer 91

How could a Hispanic Jiggle low, ( Farrakhan ), get 1 million African Americans to March on the White House, for more kibbles and Bits.0316/2015

Answer 92

Because DATA says voting Republican improves the odds of getting OUT of poverty. For example:

More House Republicans : Lower Unemployment rate t=-0.18 p<0.035

Answer 93

MOST poor people ARE Democrats. And you live in far left liberal Austin .... I live in San Antonio,

but visit Austin to help "keep Austin weird" as often as I can ! As for me, I'm not too far to the right, nor too far to the left ... and I vote my conscience, or for the lesser of 2 evils, I did NOT vote for Barak Hussein Obama.

Answer 94

Olmos all poorest vote democrats because democratic party is the only that create programs to help the society in America .all programs we have today. like SS & Unemployment &well fear &rent subset is are made by democrats. republicans only helped the rich those having the big businesses a 4% of the population on US or less

Answer 95

The rhetoric of white, us vs them, "family values," Christian, etc etc is a product that uneducated--or at least unsophisticated--people buy into because it requires zero thought. It's what they've always heard so it works for them. I often want to tell those ditto-heads and Obama-haters that if they are genuinely so opposed to federal government, then forego all its benefits: give up your road funds, your school funds, Social Security, VA benefits, Medicare, Medicaid, and so on, because that's what the Republicans rail against. One woman's sign I saw at an anti-health care rally says it all: KEEP THE GOVERNMENTS HANDS OFF MY MEDICARE. They can't be bothered to look at all sides of any issue because somebody has already told them what to think. And now, according to an article I read yesterday, pastors nationwide are being rallied to shepherd their evangelical congregations to influence next year's elections, so you already know where that's headed. Sharia Law, anyone?

Answer 96

Vote for Scott Walker!

Answer 97

Why would people struggling financially ever vote for Democrats, who believe in endless tax hikes and crushing government centraslization leading to the complete regulation and control of every facet of human behavior and interaction?



"anti science lunatics "



What, you mean like Democrat level anti-science? Y'know, like how the Democrat party is a glorified cult that believes vaccinations cause autism, that GMOs are poison, and that fracking magically causes earthquakes? The same anti-science Democrats who pretend to "believe" in evolution to piss of Creationists but don't actually understand or accept evolution, as they proudly display every time they make some idiotic announcement like, "Gender is a social construct" or "Evolution doesn't occur in the brain"?

Answer 98

Poor people vote for republicans ??? Only drunk !

Answer 99

To some poor white voters the democrates represent things they fear--Hispanic immigration---the culture and gains that African Americans have made--- gay people and the rights that have won in the past years-- a break down of traditional religious values they believe in----I think the democratic party has done more for them---social security--medicare--medicade -- raises in minimum wage--federal aid to education-- however, culturally they prefer the values of a more traditional conservative ideal more than financial improvements of which I spoke such as minimum wage- or medicare--It is as much their country as any other group

Answer 100

I believe it is mainly because of education. They just simply dont understand many of the issues and rely on what their pastor says.

Republicans consistently try to reduce educational value for the masses, while at the same time pushing unscientific religious values and labeling all others that disagree with them.

Answer 101

Hey!! Hook Em Horns if you go to UT!! Of course, you're right about lots of poor people. I think some poor whites vote republican because they desperately cling to the fantasy that their skin color alone makes them somehow better than black people. Pathetic, especially since they are rewarding a political party that does nothing but try to keep them impoverished by voting that way.



The right wing media can easily sway poor people and tha's a factor. Very poor people are usually not very educated people so they may not question or research what they're hearing on TV or radio, especially when they're relentlessly assaulted with it on a daily basis.

Answer 102

some "poor" people may vote conservative candidates, but more often it is "wealthy" people who vote liberal.



it is not difficult to understand why this occurs. wealth often is passed on generationally and although estate taxes are high the lawyers set up tax avoidance schemes...entirely legal, therefore folks like bill gates, buffet etc vast wealth is protected....they have no reason to defend the POOR or common persons goal to achieve the American dream, which is impossible if tax rates are 50 % and more state and local.



the "poor" person who is achievement minded struggles under confiscatory high tax rates liberals demand to redistribute wealth and grow bigger and bigger government with associated corruption of politicans seeking votes to keep them in office.

Answer 103

The Republican party has brilliantly convinced poor Whites that voting for the "evil Liberal" is the same as voting for the black lazy welfare people to sit at home and live off the little money that poor white people pay in taxes.They bought that lie hook, line and sinker.

Answer 104

Of the folks I know that vote Republican, regardless of income, their reasoning is that they are for less government involvement in their lives, and feel the Democratic party is for more government involvement. Is goes against the entire private ballot system we have to pry into why anyone votes the way they do, so congrats to you on that.

Answer 105

Jee thanks for helping the state take money from my family and giving it to lazy welfare leaches. I am not poor but middle class blue collar worker and if you think either party gives a **** about you or the poor. I don't vote for either party and have a BA. You sound like a presumptuous azz.

Answer 106

If you identify yourself with either Democrat or Republic, you are a moron. "I am a constitutionalist, period. Whoever wrote the original question is scary, scary that they vote that is. I really could care less your income bracket or schooling, it is your morals and compassion. Just shows your stupidity. Get some help and stop trying so hard to be weird. This is from a true Texan.

Answer 107

Poor people vote Republican because they were "lied to" about the Affordable Care Act, a.k.a. Obamacare. "If you like your doctor, you will get to keep your doctor." Remember that lie? Why should someone vote for a liar like the current President in the next presidential election?

Answer 108

I do NOT vote REPUBLICAN and I am NOT rich at all! When I think of REPUBLICANS Ithhinkof the IDOT BUSH FAMILY and the IDIOT from ARIZONA that used the "bomb, bomb, bomb iraq" ploy! Therefre I think of REPUBLICANS as RICHER PEOPLE that care LITTLE bout INTERNAL AFFAIRS and want to spend money and time making WARS and causing personal harm! OUR INFRA STURCUTRE is DYING quickly! Roads are in disreappir and HOMES are losing their values as time goes by! The BUSH famikly has owned OIL WELLS in IRAQ since the fifteis! AND E VOTED FOR THEM, RIGHT??? they NOW live in a MUTI ILLIION DOALLR RANCH in TEXAS somewhere and WE are DYING from lack of GOOD JOBS and SERIIOUSLY criminally active neghborhoods! The PRICS of FUELis in oconsistant and we NEVER know when things wil be GOOD or BAD!

Answer 109

Poor people vote republican because they want the opportunity to become wealthy or at least better the lives of themselves and their families.



If they vote democrat they'll be tied down to the democrat plantation for the rest of their lives with no opportunity to improve their lives. To some people that's not good enough. The high taxes and regulation democrats impose make mobility impossible. Sure, they could make 30 or 40k but after that the taxes really start kicking in and it's impossible to save money and acquire wealth. Besides in a couple of decades 30k will be below the poverty lines.



High taxes ensure that the rich stay rich and the poor stay poor. A lot of poor people may not be happy with the idea of staying poor their entire life.

Answer 110

They have parents that harass them into voting republican. Or some really stupid friends that dislike, not arguing about things. Really stupid people have no way to consider things.

Answer 111

Anyone can vote a certain way, whether they want to or not, when electronic 'voting' systems of secret proprietary design, build, programming, and operation are used instead of actual observed counts of real ballots.



http://verifiedvoting.org/

Answer 112

Actually, it is not that they are poor: it is that they are poorly educated lower-middle class whites who have no intellectual curiosity.



It is much easier to read a paragraph in the Bible and let a preacher interpret it simplistically than actually learn science, which is far more rigorous and challenging. It is easier to rely on a preacher, demagogue, or other hustler than think things out: that is why populism has a following.



PS: Other simple-minded, naïve people rely on left-wing nonsense like Marxism, Communism, and "welfare-statism," all of which are nutty and unsuccessful concepts, too.

Answer 113

I live in upstate NY and there is over 30% poverty in my city of high taxes and massive government programs, so I wonder why they all continue to vote Democratic. What are the statistics there? You posted rhetoric.



Pre-recession numbers (even worse today)...



http://www.brookings.edu/research/reports/2004/09/demographics-pendall

Answer 114

because they suffer from retardation. democrats defend everyone especially the poor and republicans only defend the rich so when a poor person votes republican they are either high or retarted

Answer 115

I come from a democrat leaning house and we earn well over 250K before bonuses. I live in Texas and I could tell you that most conservatives are religious, anti science lunatics who live in lower middle class households in rural areas and never went to college (or went to a christian "college." )



I also major mechanical engineering and finance at a University here in Austin. The truth is that most conservative politicians don't care about the interests of poor republicans and wouldn't want to be caught dead living in such crappy homes and such crappy cars that many of you poor conservatives "own." I vote democrat in order to help people because I think of the good of society, not just the good for my family and my future myself.



Why do poor people vote republican? Thoughts?

Update: @hit girl

I live in Austin Texas and used to live in Houston. Idiot.

Answer 116

First of all, I d like to inform you that everything you just stated about religious people, is completely false. I, myself, am one of those quote, "religious, anti science lunatics who live in lower middle class households in rural areas and never went to college." Let s start out with the term "anti-science". One of my favorite things about life is to learn more about the world through science. Since I believe that there is a God, or a Creator, then I love to learn about the world He created for us. Moving onto "lunatics who live in lower-middle class households in rural areas", I can surely tell you that this isn t true! Go find people in New York, Wisconsin, Michigan, everywhere! There are so many of us Christians around the world. And also, I d love for your response to this so we could discuss a little more why Christians and all other religious people are "lunatics". What part of us makes you think that we are "lunatics". That doesn t make sense to me considering that we have more smarts than the rest of the population on average and graduate from college more than most non-religious people. Now, I m not trying to put non-religious people down! God loves them so much and is waiting for them to come join His family, but while they keep rejecting Him, there s nothing else He can do. I look forward to your response. Please feel free to email me at [e-mail]

Answer 117

Why do people vote, period? Democrat, republican - none of that matters. They are just wings on the same bird, and ran by corporations.

Answer 118

What a ridiculously incorrect supposition you make. By your way of thinking, since I'm a "Democrat" I should be rich. I'm not. May I please have some of this money I'm supposed to have?



Calling people idiots doesn't make you look very mature, or as intelligent as you claim to be.

Answer 119

Poverty does not mean stupidity. Poor people recognize that Republicans are factually on their side to improve their financial life in contrast to Democrats who are virtual and use the poor people only for their political machinations and sinister, ill-conceived propaganda.

Answer 120

I don't know why but just because you have a very privileged life doesn't mean that people who aren't rich are bad, disgusting people. And what you had to say about christians and christian college was BEYOND THE LINE. if your going to ask questions that get you answers like this one don't ask pretentious questions!

Answer 121

Never vote republican! Republicans are anti-American. I always look for the D before the name of the candidate and then vote blindly!

Answer 122

As Boco Haram knows, the key to getting people to thoughtlessly believe what you say is to keep them uneducated. People who can't read (or read well), don't go fact checking! As long as they deny science, convince their followers not to go anywhere else for information, and only read one book, they have them. They will believe whatever they are told - faithfully believe.



And how do I know? I was raised by John Birchers - the Tea Party of the 1960s.

Answer 123

Hoping for a change in government, to uplift them from poor to middle class.

Answer 124

They want structure and they want rules to live by and guide them. They don't feel comfortable thinking their own way through life without a dominate father figure so they live by "God's rules." Then get upset when people feel comfortable in their own skin because it doesn't seem fair to them.



edit: they also get all pissed off when liberals try to help one another because they aren't getting any help from their "father figure"



In the end the 2 party system creates chokehold in government where all the leaders fight over how to control the world so the joke is on liberals and conservatives all the same and they'll forever ***** about each other.

Answer 125

Democrats win elections by "buying" votes with programs like food stamps and countless other programs of dubious value.

Answer 126

Modern Democrats tend to be collectivists, whereas Republicans lean more toward individualism. The much-maligned blue-collar working class tend to be individualists raised in the entwined tradions of self-reliance, individual responsibility, and patriotism. 'Thus we tend to want no more from our goverment than to be left the aitch-ee-double-hockey-sticks alone.

Answer 127

The same reason anyone votes Republican. To improve the country and thereby the hopes and dreams of their children.

Answer 128

The republicans maybe want to help the poor or something

Answer 129

poor and minorities are now being asked to vote gop next election so they will be noticed. the mindless sheeple of this country will probably do it to some extent because they are ignorant and believe the political herders.

Answer 130

I reject the premise of your question... I'm not poor and I vote conservatively, which is typically available only via the R candidates. And guess what... I have friends and family who are just like me!

Answer 131

It's a lesser known fact that the printers of printing voting ballots of people living in poorer districts cannot afford the ink to print both democrat and republican'. and since they generally lack education, the excuse used that 'r' comes before 'd' in the alphabet is generally accepted as the truth.



Lesser known facts of republican bias in poorer districts....



strange but true.

Answer 132

Most people don't want the government running their lives or determining how much money they have. And they see Republicans as the party of opportunity, economic advancement, and family values.

Answer 133

The poorest welfare queen states did indeed vote Republican. Kind of ironic if you really think of what they stand for. Just google pool welfare states and you will see they are the most Republican.

Answer 134

Because they were mind tricked! Republicans have time and time again, UNDOUBTFULLY PROVEN and DEMONSTRATED THAT THEY ARE ALL FOR THE EXTRA WEALTHY. Fact, mark my word, they are a bunch of POLITICAL PROSTITUTES!! That's right I said it! Political prostitutes! They get right in bed with those big business guys but WE all are the ones who get F*CKED for it!

Answer 135

Two words, Stockholm Syndrome

Answer 136

So you are saying that most blacks and legal and illegal mexicans voted republican. You are such an brain wash individual.

Answer 137

These poor republicans white poor people.

They are told by their base that the poor black people take all the money and that is what is making the white poor people.

Answer 138

no such thing as a poor Republican..just a white victim of Obama who hates when black people play the victim card

Answer 139

Why do people who pretend to care about the human race vote democrat when not to long ago democrats hated black people?

Answer 140

We would rather live free and independent than let the government run our lives. That was the Founding Fathers purpose in writing the Constitution and Bill of Rights. People back in those days said, "Give me liberty or give me death". Today many just say, "Gime, Gime, Gime". btw, Christians give more to the poor than your Democratic Government. They give your money to the criminals running the poor into the dessert to live in squalor.

Answer 141

They don't the stats say they vote democratic like for Obama.

Answer 142

Why do rich kids from Texas allowed to use the Internet? Get your first paycheck. You will vote republican soon.

Answer 143

A perfect example of a well educated a$$ who cant see the woods for the trees. You talk about the good of society. When the entire society collapses because of bankruptcy there is no nation to protect the society you think you are trying to build. That is worth more than you fancy house.



I have done some engineering my self without a degree. In Mechanical Engineering I have drawn and had accepted and produced major assemblies for manufacturing equipment.



In Civil Engineering while helping my father-in-law survey his property of 800 acres and for selling lots I have had maps I drew up approved and sealed by a Registered Forestry Surveyor. Self taught on both of those.



Many of the things you Democrats believe will be for the good of society end up being to its detriment.

Answer 144

Clearly, you are a very ignorant, hate filled person that simply posted this rant with the intent to insult people who do agree with your views of society. That is really very sad.

Answer 145

I don't know but I have friends who can not see anyone that does not call him or herself a Republican. I call it bias blindness.

Answer 146

WE appreciate the lecture and the insult. Now how about a real Politics question. Your therapy session is over.



But you do remind that by using the term "crappy" by referencing what people can afford, or choose to own, you seem to be part of the Obama problem - you know, the elitist one.

Answer 147

It's a culture

Answer 148

The DEM controlled sections of Texas are tne most racists and have the highest crime rates, the worst ghetto and barrio schools and have the lowest quality of life for their poor in the state. Their schools and institutions are engineered to keep the poor on the DEM plantation.

Answer 149

Because you might work for a town in Pennsylvania that is controlled by Republicans and you are told which way to vote if you wanna keep your job.

Answer 150

As republican party is having its own root.

Answer 151

poor people vote GOP? are you serious? Uninformed, lazy people vote Democratic vis-à-vis rote

Answer 152

Funny, I know a lot of conservatives and they are mostly well educated professionals.



It's funny how the left complains that the uneducated right controls the money.

Answer 153

So to make sure to make something of themselves as opposed to poor dumb liberals that love eating at the government trough.

Answer 154

Because even the poor can recognize the fact that Democrats lie about everything.

Answer 155

because people are idiot and enjoy voting against their own and national interests and enjoy being the laughing of the world when a republican opens their mouths

Answer 156

Why do rich people vote democrat?

Answer 157

Those who live happily and modestly are often the most wealthy. Don't let face value fool you. Many that you consider "rich" are really just fools in major debt.

Answer 158

If you were thinking of the good of society, you (as a Democrat) would not insist on spending like a drunken sailor. Federal budget in 2007 - $2.7 trillion. Federal budget in 2016 - $4.0 trillion. National debt in 2007 - $12 trillion. National debt in 2016 - $18 trillion. If you are intelligent, you have to know how this is going to end up. Poor people of both parties are going to be the ones to suffer.

Answer 159

-poor -republican and you've got a point.

GOD is already elected.

Answer 160

I seriously doubt you are studying to be an engineer, you are clearly not bright enough for that. You like to lie and spread hate which does make you a good liberal, but not a very good person.

Politicians of both major parties are elitists. They do not live the way common folk do. Politicians do not go to grocery stores for example. They do not shop for themselves they have people that shop for them. I know you are no where near bright enough to figure this out on you own but politicians are elitists that have far more in common with other politicians of the other party than they do with constituents of their own party. Hopefully you are able to use this knowledge and will have a more accurate world view, but I doubt you are even close to sharp enough to do that.

Answer 161

I also live in Texas. Plano to be exact and my family are also republicans, and we happen to be upper middle class, and were not lunatics.

Answer 162

only stupid people vote for republicans

Answer 163

They dont affliction so abundant about apprenticeship afar from apprenticeship in the anatomic practicle faculty ie whether its traveling to get them a acceptable job.

Answer 164

Coz it fights 4 them

Answer 165

Because they are good people. Even though they are por they don't want to take from you so their lives will Improve

Answer 166

So they can rise out of poverty with capitalism and have too much pride to steal others money.Or they are brainwashed moronic rednecks retards.

Answer 167

Misguided.

Answer 168

You need to get your socialist @ss out of Texas! Go move to California, New York etc., and leave use the hell alone!

Answer 169

As I see it, you can make promises and lie to people, rich or poor, just so many times and they turn down the volume. As the saying goes,"Lie to me once, shame on you. Lie to me twice, shame on me."

Answer 170

The fact is that the poor overwhelmingly vote Democrat. The middle class is mostly Republican.

Answer 171

Learn to write before you accuse someone of not going to College.

Answer 172

Republicans promise more money. Democrats promise to work harder.

Answer 173

You seem to care deeply about what other people do.Maybe you wish you could be like them,maybe you wish you had something in your life that you seem to be missing.

Answer 174

I am not American but could it be they are not rich enough to vote for any one else ?

Answer 175

most texans vote republican

Answer 176

Perhaps because many of them care more about the good for their country than their selfish desire for stuff. Simple!! Same reason I do.

Answer 177

So the millions of poor blacks that got obama into office dosent exsit?

Answer 178

Because they don't want to be stuck in the poor class forever.

Answer 179

its simple. race and fox news. the unfair and unbalanced network. hate even make you vote against oneself interest. let us see these issuues.

healthcare, minimum wage, unionization, education assistance for poor and jobless and ect.. these issues concerns poor and the GOP against it all and yet these poor white families vote for the GOP. mind-boggling

Answer 180

honestly, lower income people usually vote democrat because of the widespread support of welfare in that party

Answer 181

My dad is by NO MEANS WHATSOEVER poor, and he's a tea party member, sooooooo.....

Answer 182

They say "People only vote Democrat until they start earning money." lol

Answer 183

Because they are the product of a government school. They do not know any better

Answer 184

They don't vote.

Answer 185

Many of them are religious, and have been told that the Republicans are morally superior.

Answer 186

Because unlike yourself, they're aware of facts.

For example, on average, years when REPUBLICANS held at least two policy-making chambers (House, Senate, White House,) have had 26.69% MORE JOB CREATION than other years.



You are now free to explain why you agree with your Party leadership that job creation is a BAD thing.

Answer 187

Both sides suck Washington warned against political parties he was right.

Answer 188

Because they cannot afford Progressive fiscal policy, which is what the Democratic Party runs on.

Answer 189

I would think they are tired of the Libs keeping them poor..

Answer 190

I live in Texas and you are full of "Hillary". After reading your post I am certain you have never even visited Texas. Jo3 is right, you are a bigot.



UPDATE:

The only idiot here is you. You are living in the most liberal city in Texas (according to you) and attacking republicans...hilarious!

Answer 191

I'd like to say it was the issues, but it's just racism.

Answer 192

It's the exact opposite.

Answer 193

some for social reasons, others because they are fed up with the Dems paternalistic attitude and want actual opportunities.

Answer 194

I think religion and massive wealth are more a factor. They do run on:

group 1 - wealthy - cutting taxes

group 2 - rural - don't take my guns, constitution types.

group 3 - religion, you know gay rights, abortion, god in the classroom, evolution, and morals.

You can factor in nearly 50 percent of the population just running on that, it does not matter what your economic policies are for the final two, so you only need too say them. Then spend all your time legislating for the first.

Answer 195

Definition of a Republican : People who support war and then use "thou shalt not kill" as a reason against abortions.



People who say they are for less government controll over the individual, and then enforce the PATRIOT ACT, the sanctity of marriage amendment, and other civilian intrusions.



People who lower taxes for the wealthiest one percent.



People who get in to office thanks to the less educated population states. (A proven fact)



People who accuse Democrats of being spendthrifts while bankrupting our economy.



People who work for their self interests, and the interests of their campaign funders and benifactors, while in office. (Well, Democrats are infamous for that as well.)



A party that once was good, but then the southern influence came in.



People who accuse Liberals of being whiners while bitching about: Gay People, Public Displays of the Ten Commandments, and Civil Rights.

Answer 196

Republicans say the truth,

admit it Obama is failure

Answer 197

becuz they is rasists who turn there noses up at the free moneys and gifts Presadunce Obamas promisses them if they vote for demoncrats.

Answer 198

Obama's EPA wants to ban my wood burning stove. Obama's ATF wants to ban .223 ammo.

Answer 199

I don't see that. It all depends on person and circumstances.

Answer 200

I have been poor in the past. Then I learned I have a real talent in Cisco networking and security. For years I had to donate plasma is order to afford the books required for college. And yes, I was a republican the entire time. In fact, I have been a republican since the age of 20 when I WORKED in low income housing. While working there, I have seen shootings, stabbings, beat downs and mothers selling their children for the night for crack money. How could anybody support a culture like this; rife with crime poverty and drugs? The democrats, that's who. Not only do they support it, they defend it!

Answer 201

it's their right to vote for whomever.

Answer 202

FREEDOM baby. We don't want Communism like rich Democrats do. Face it, when you destroy the Constitution, you'll still be the ELITE in charge. We are on to you!

Answer 203

They just want to help out those less fortunate than them.

Answer 204

Because that's what Fox news and the neocons told them to do.

Answer 205

Because they are poorly educated and easily lied to.

Answer 206

Nobody on the planet is worth the kind of money that you make. Certainly not the athletes.

Answer 207

I don't know! I am English!

Answer 208

Because it fights for them

Answer 209

They are brainwashed into the religion of statism by the public school system.

Answer 210

fox news

Answer 211

This is an interesting question I once asked an American friend who lives here, in Norway. His answer was: Many poor Americans live the American dream of being rich, one day. And that day ... they won't want to share! ;-)



And I think it is true. If you take the American parties, Republicans and Democrats, they are both to the right of a center that would be that between the British Labour and Tory parties ... and most of the left-right division of European countries like Norway, where I live. Once summed up, Europeans are more socialists that Americans? Why is that? The American Dream, my friend! ;-)

Answer 212

Because they want to select their leader.

Answer 213

Racist poor people vote for Democrats.

Answer 214

I am not shure, however one should vote for best for the job.

Answer 215

They don't. That is why the left is so adamant about giving the minorities

freebies.

Answer 216

because Obama is detroyyng usa, obama is worse than bush

Answer 217

Because the Democrats stole all their money through high taxes.

Answer 218

Temporary insanity

Answer 219

Neither party really cares about us.

Answer 220

Reagan

Answer 221

I would guess they want an economy where they can get a job and not be dependent on the government.

Answer 222

yes

Answer 223

I'm a Conservative Master Machinist, and I think you are full of Sh!t!

Answer 224

Feminazis and affirmative action

Answer 225

cos their fvcking stupid. mostly white trash in upstate new york and down south. they don't have a pot to p*ss in or a window to throw it out of. Rascist bible chanting two faced garbage.

Answer 226

IGNORANCE AND A LOT OF LIES.

YOU NEVER TELL OTHERS WHY YOU GET SO MUCH?

AND WHY SIMPLE PEOPLE WORK SO HARD,TO GET SOMETHING THE HARD WAY THEY WORK?

Answer 227

Trolling much?

Answer 228

Well your a little **** aren't you

Answer 229

maybe they like certain republican candidates.

Answer 230

The ones that do, do so because they are reasonable and rational.

Answer 231

Because They are need help.

Answer 232

To anger morons like you.

Answer 233

They assume it is a constitutional right, and opt to exercise it.

Answer 234

brainwashed and kept ignorant by their masters

Answer 235

If they don't them there moms would kill them

Answer 236

Stupidity and Fear mixed.

Answer 237

because they have no time for news... => Lack of knowledge

Answer 238

stereotypes...the rich are libs because theyrebrainwashed by high society, its easy to stand for socialism when rich...

Answer 239

Because, they're blind to the deception of the Republicans.

Answer 240

believe the lie that they will get "trickled down on"...that and they believe the lie that Republicans really will outlaw abortion. (the poor who lean conservative are always "religious")

Answer 241

They are complete morons

Answer 242

Too much tuna?

Answer 243

They're the most humble.

Answer 244

Stupidity that's why

Answer 245

What moe should be expected of po' watt racist trash?

Answer 246

i blame obama for this post

Answer 247

n9

Answer 248

You are naive. You should get out more

Answer 249

You are truly ignorant!!

Answer 250

because they want a justice and want all their rights.

Answer 251

because the GOP lie to them and tell them they can get them out of poverty by cutting their taxes and corporate taxes...its sad really

Answer 252

Wrong.

Answer 253

Lack of education.

Answer 254

being poor doesn't mean being stupid!

Answer 255

Moat do not, and really never have.

Answer 256

Usually not !

Answer 257

for the same reason that all the big Demo leaders are all millionaires.

Answer 258

..."you" are the perfect example as to why the National Political "symbol" for the Liberal, "dummy-crat" Party is.... a JACKASS !

Answer 259

The GOP have done a superb job of convincing poor Whites that they are "poor because of Black people" and promised those poor Whites they can "fix that", which is WHY so many Southern rednecks are conservatives...

Answer 260

they hates slavery

Answer 261

It could be brainwash

Answer 262

Low IQs

Answer 263

idkk

Answer 264

I wish I knew the answer to this. :(

Answer 265

...... Because most of you HaySeeds in TexA$$ are poor by most standards .............

Answer 266

Religion.

Answer 267

“If you can make a woman laugh, you can make her do anything.”

Answer 268

Because they are very smart!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111



xoxo

Answer 269

who knows

Answer 270

does it really matter?

Answer 271

SO THEY CAN KEEP THEIR MONEY AND GET RICH

Answer 272

because they are honesty

Answer 273

The bible told them so.

Answer 274

because

Answer 275

Why do STUPID , IGNORANT , and ILLITERATE people vote DEMONCRAT ??????????

Answer 276

because there are not educated

Answer 277

what they said.

Answer 278

LOL.... What a troll!!

Answer 279

freedom....you bigoted liberal piece of sh1t

Answer 280

Stupid question.

Answer 281

because they are dumb and ignorant.

Answer 282

because Jesus

Answer 283

they dont

Answer 284

insanity!!!

Answer 285

because they are stupid *** ****** *******

Answer 286

they don,t.

Answer 287

Wtf, so many long answers, i cri evr tiem...

Answer 288

i dunno