Why do people vote the way they do.
November 15th 2006 05:53
When I was growing up "politics" wasn't discussed. I think I heard my father curse various senior politicians at the time, but I really had no knowledge of it all. When I was old enough to vote I was on my own, and I can recall the first time I voted I had not idea what I was doing.
I soon started to take an interest in it, and several times during my life I joined a liberal group. Somehow I felt at ease there, though I didn't renew my membership on several occasions.
It was later on when our children had left home that we took a greater interest in poltics, my husband and I, and it was in part to meet new people in our new home region.
One year my parents arrived days prior to an election, and we told them that they would have to "entertain" themselves as we were working on a polling booth for the Liberal Party. I was most surprised when my parents eagerly offered their services. It was the first time in my life that I really knew my parent's politics.
It seems that they were very much conservative voters. We often laugh at the enthusiasm my then nearly 80 year old mother showed at her hours on the polling booth extolling the virtues of politicans of which I would have thought she had limited knowledge.
It really was quite hilarious and we have had many discussions since on the topic.
(I might add that I had left home at 18 years of age, and for most of my life had never lived near my parents, so we always had other things to talk about when we met up.)
I wonder whether it was just the way that my sister and I were brought up, that we had a leaning towards convervative politics. She I think has little knowledge or interest, and she's probably a swinging voter, or worse someone who usually don't make a decision and leaves an informal vote.
I soon started to take an interest in it, and several times during my life I joined a liberal group. Somehow I felt at ease there, though I didn't renew my membership on several occasions.
It was later on when our children had left home that we took a greater interest in poltics, my husband and I, and it was in part to meet new people in our new home region.
One year my parents arrived days prior to an election, and we told them that they would have to "entertain" themselves as we were working on a polling booth for the Liberal Party. I was most surprised when my parents eagerly offered their services. It was the first time in my life that I really knew my parent's politics.
It seems that they were very much conservative voters. We often laugh at the enthusiasm my then nearly 80 year old mother showed at her hours on the polling booth extolling the virtues of politicans of which I would have thought she had limited knowledge.
It really was quite hilarious and we have had many discussions since on the topic.
(I might add that I had left home at 18 years of age, and for most of my life had never lived near my parents, so we always had other things to talk about when we met up.)
I wonder whether it was just the way that my sister and I were brought up, that we had a leaning towards convervative politics. She I think has little knowledge or interest, and she's probably a swinging voter, or worse someone who usually don't make a decision and leaves an informal vote.
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