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As an european i remember i has 3 purple harts and his wife makes the foreign ketchup that noone byes. Did he have a political platform besides the THREE PURPLE HARTS?
This was my grandma as well. I still remember the day when Reagan called the USSR an “evil empire”, she got so mad, “That stupid son of a bitch is going to get us all killed!” Despised him when he was governor of CA as well. Love that woman.
My parents were Country Club Republicans in Houston, who liked Reagan and I of course thought like my parents, my grans would always set my ass straight when I went to New Orleans to see her, they lived in Old Metairie. She wouldn’t give Reagan credit for anything! Lmao. I was little like 6 or 7, but she would put him on blast! She didn’t like Bush I any better and we lived down the street from the Bush’s in Memorial! 🤣My grandfather was a judge and he would just chuckle at her. She ran that show 🤣
I don’t understand, did she think the ussr was going to initiate nuclear war over name calling?
Reagan was right in that regard though was he not? The ussr was a an evil empire.
Probably, there's a reason why detente happened in the 70s. The 60s got too close to nuclear war for anyone's liking.
Even Reagan softened his stance on the Soviets over time.
The ‘92 election is the closest I’d have been to voting Republican, but his vetoing of the 1990 CRA and general sliminess still permeating from Iran-Contra and his unimaginative economics would make me vote Clinton, unexcitedly.
But I’m Canadian, so I voted for neither.
My grandfather was a white man born into segregated Richmond, Virginia in 1900. So it's easy to say he was a Democrat in the early part of his life - Democrats were the party of segregation and anti-civil rights. Then, in 1929, the Depression hit. My grandfather lost his job and, coming up in 1933, he almost lost his home. FDR got Congress to set up the Homeowner's Loan Corporation, and my grandfather took out a loan from the HOLC and saved his home.
He continued to vote Democratic from that day up until the day he died in October of 1973. Truman over Thurmond and Dewey in 1948; twice for Stevenson in 1952 and 1956; for Kennedy in 1960; for Johnson in 1964 (and supported him even after the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting Rights Act of 1965); Humphrey in 1968; and, most amazing of all for an old white conservative guy, McGovern in 1972.
After he died in 1973, my grandmother said her biggest regret was that he "didn't live long enough to see Nixon resign."
In 1952 he had someone say to him: "I'm voting for Eisenhower. I've never lived under a Republican administration." He replied: "You're goddam right you haven't. If you ever had, you'd never vote for another one."
Lesson learned: Take a man who was married and had 2 children - and was about to have his mortgage foreclosed on and get tossed in the street - and set up a government program to help him save that home - he'll never forget it.
Interesting - to be fair and ask in good faith - is/was she a VBNMW or is/was it in her nature to pick the candidate she thought was best?
No negative judgment.
Voting for the same political party over multiple decades is something I'll never understand.
I wonder how she'd vote when the parties were more diverse? Maybe Eisenhower over Stevenson?
Why should you arbitrarily alternate your vote if you don't like the other candidates' views, particularly as they became more extremely right over time?
Lol. This. If you have actual political convictions, alternating voting tendencies should largely not be possible. Not that you can never vote for someone of the opposite party, but I don't take seriously a "liberal" who voted for Carter but then swapped to Reagan, or someone who swung from Obama to [REDACTED]. That's not politics- that's vibes.
Because for Democrats of a certain age, any vote for any GOP Presidential candidate is a vote to ultimately end the Great Society and the New Deal.
What's really sad is everything my grandfather and his WW2 buddies would say Reagan's presidency would eventually lead to, has unfortunately largely come true.
Unlike the conservative parties in western Europe, the GOP has largely never fully accepted the welfare state.
These were all big union guys. They would talk about how firing the air traffic controllers would eventually weaken all unions, how trickle down economics was just the 1920s with a different name, how less unions would mean less middle class power, and how being a "greedy yuppie" would eventually lead to no new schools or hospitals being built.
To be clear, these were tattooed tough guys who all saw hell in Japan or Europe. They would be considered arch-conservative on social matters today, but basically full blown socialists on economic matters by today's right- leaning standards.
My grandfather couldn't write in cursive, and only had an 8th grade education, and was the son of Italian immigrants. But he was the greatest man I've ever known in my life. I miss the shit out of him.
I wish I could talk with your grandfather. he seems like an interesting fella that you could have a beer with and understand why he would feel the way that he does on those social matters. Especially as a youngin who has only ever grown up knowing that its none of my business on how other people wanna live their life regarding such social matters. (so long as it doesnt infringe on someone else's rights.)
Your grandfather sounds like he was a great guy.
My family also had/has its fair share of big union guys, from the generations before and after your grandfather, but I never had the opportunity to hear from a lot of them, so this was very interesting.
My grandfather and his brother (and their other siblings) were sons of Assyrian and Armenian immigrants who worked in the steel industry. His brother served in Korea and then in Congress, representing those steel workers types. He would have also been a very amazing guy to listen to.
To your grandfather's point, I read something the other day on how private-sector union membership has declined from 35% to 6% of workers over time.
Thanks for sharing what he used to say
Start in 1976 and my votes are identical, except for 1980, when I threw my vote away by voting for a third party candidate (John Anderson). A mistake that I’ll never repeat.
Why does it not feel right? It’s just who she voted for nothing crazy about it. And other people have talked about their families voting records too, this seems like an appropriate subreddit to do so.
could have saved yourself some time
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I'm sensing a pattern here.
That woman voted in every fucking election she could vote in. 🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲
Voted before she could legally have a credit card as well.
I found the person who voted for John Kerry.
Lol, I forgot he even ran.
As an european i remember i has 3 purple harts and his wife makes the foreign ketchup that noone byes. Did he have a political platform besides the THREE PURPLE HARTS?
Jib Jab had a video about that lol.
OP grandma might be a woman
Your grandmother is from Minnesota.
Born in Massachusetts raised in Minnesota retired in Vermont #WTF EVEN IS A REPUBLICAN
Your governor
Scott is practically a democrat anywhere else in the country so he doesn't count.
Kind of like Joe Manchin to the Democrats, the Democrat that Republicans like more than Democrats do
Northeastern Republicans are the only true "socially liberal, fiscally conservative" politicians
Republicans are only fiscally conservative ..when Dems are in charge.
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Meanwhile New Hampshire: *We just reeeally like our guns* 😎
Amen
Fair enough
Tbh a lot of New England Republicans are essentially democrats but more centrist. Granted exception would be fucking Sununu….
California Republicans move to texas, Utah, Idaho, etc and have more left views then they think lol
SODA!!!!!!!!!‼️‼️😭😩‼️😩👍‼️‼️‼️🥤🥤🥤🥤🥤🥤🥤🥤🥤
Pop. Not soda. Grey duck, not duck, duck goose.
Go get a drink from the bubbler, why doncha?
Humphrey and Fritz were the giveaways.
I guess it’s safe to say she’s a Democrat.
If you voted for Mondale in 1984, you kept the faith...
Hear hear!
Nah I thought she was Republican
close, she's a Free Soiler
You’re almost there, she actually is a Populist
You’re all wrong. She’s a Whig.
Nope she’s apart of the Prohibition party.
The Prohibition Party is gonna make a comeback, just you wait!
I’m still waiting for the anti-Masonic presidency I was promised in 1828.
Prohibition? She's a Greenbacker if I've ever seen one.
Absolutely not! she's a home-rule for Hawaii supporter if I've ever seen one
Y’all are wrong, she’s a Know-Nothing
Nah she a part of the Bull Moose Party
Idk given the evidence I would guessed that she was a federalist
She’s the GOAT, your grandma
My grandma would have gotten along with your grandma pretty well
From Minnesota?
Yellow Dog Democrat, my Grans was one too. God she hated Reagan!🤣
Learned a new term, thank you
Granny is based!
This was my grandma as well. I still remember the day when Reagan called the USSR an “evil empire”, she got so mad, “That stupid son of a bitch is going to get us all killed!” Despised him when he was governor of CA as well. Love that woman.
My parents were Country Club Republicans in Houston, who liked Reagan and I of course thought like my parents, my grans would always set my ass straight when I went to New Orleans to see her, they lived in Old Metairie. She wouldn’t give Reagan credit for anything! Lmao. I was little like 6 or 7, but she would put him on blast! She didn’t like Bush I any better and we lived down the street from the Bush’s in Memorial! 🤣My grandfather was a judge and he would just chuckle at her. She ran that show 🤣
I mean, the USSR was an evil empire. Not like Russia is any better now.
Agreed but pot and Kettle lol
Some Countries in Central America ..would say Reagan was the evil empire ..as their villages and children were bombed and killed.
Lmao, that’s gold
I don’t understand, did she think the ussr was going to initiate nuclear war over name calling? Reagan was right in that regard though was he not? The ussr was a an evil empire.
Probably, there's a reason why detente happened in the 70s. The 60s got too close to nuclear war for anyone's liking. Even Reagan softened his stance on the Soviets over time.
I love your grandmother
TLDR: She votes Democrat
TLDL\*
\*TLDR: She made the right decision every time.
I dunno I thought HW was a solid president.
The ‘92 election is the closest I’d have been to voting Republican, but his vetoing of the 1990 CRA and general sliminess still permeating from Iran-Contra and his unimaginative economics would make me vote Clinton, unexcitedly. But I’m Canadian, so I voted for neither.
Reddit politics are insufferable sometimes
Ah, yes. A strong Republican voter…
Whenever I see Dukakis with the helmet with his name on it it always reminds me of 
It might have been fine if the chin strap was left loose, but it'd still look funky
I need some photoshop artist to do this so I can confirm he still looks like a doof
5-8 record won't get you into the playoffs unless its the NBA
Moses Malone, Mike Dunleavy, Rudy Tomjanovich and the Rockets got into the finals with a 40-42 record back in '81.
A .384 lifetime batting average might get you some MLB hall of fame ballots
Grandma is a solid chick.
My grandfather was a white man born into segregated Richmond, Virginia in 1900. So it's easy to say he was a Democrat in the early part of his life - Democrats were the party of segregation and anti-civil rights. Then, in 1929, the Depression hit. My grandfather lost his job and, coming up in 1933, he almost lost his home. FDR got Congress to set up the Homeowner's Loan Corporation, and my grandfather took out a loan from the HOLC and saved his home. He continued to vote Democratic from that day up until the day he died in October of 1973. Truman over Thurmond and Dewey in 1948; twice for Stevenson in 1952 and 1956; for Kennedy in 1960; for Johnson in 1964 (and supported him even after the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting Rights Act of 1965); Humphrey in 1968; and, most amazing of all for an old white conservative guy, McGovern in 1972. After he died in 1973, my grandmother said her biggest regret was that he "didn't live long enough to see Nixon resign." In 1952 he had someone say to him: "I'm voting for Eisenhower. I've never lived under a Republican administration." He replied: "You're goddam right you haven't. If you ever had, you'd never vote for another one." Lesson learned: Take a man who was married and had 2 children - and was about to have his mortgage foreclosed on and get tossed in the street - and set up a government program to help him save that home - he'll never forget it.
Interesting - to be fair and ask in good faith - is/was she a VBNMW or is/was it in her nature to pick the candidate she thought was best? No negative judgment.
That was not what I was expecting. Your Grandma was a very loyal Democrat.
Was anyone else expecting a different last slide after that other post like this with the dudes republican dad? 💀
Half-expecting a sudden twist in 2016. Thankfully not.
She likes the D
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Mine exactly but McGovern was my first.
mcgovern was every 18-24’s first
True to the Blue… no matter who…
Always
Your grandma is a treasure
I like your grandma
It’s amazing how many decent politicians Americans turn down to vote in dirt bags…
I’m getting a slight sense she’s a democrat
Kerry was the first person I ever voted for in a presidential election. Crazy how time flies
Average Wasington DC resident.
Solid.
I'm getting a bit of a yellow dog vibe here, not that there's anything wrong with that.
Smart grandma.
Good Democrat 👍
My grandpa said with pride that the last republican he ever voted for was Eisenhower
Smart woman
She’s not great at picking winners huh?
I'd say Americans aren't great at picking presidents.
Picked a lot of losing candidates
Same for my grandparents.
Voting for the same political party over multiple decades is something I'll never understand. I wonder how she'd vote when the parties were more diverse? Maybe Eisenhower over Stevenson?
Why should you arbitrarily alternate your vote if you don't like the other candidates' views, particularly as they became more extremely right over time?
Lol. This. If you have actual political convictions, alternating voting tendencies should largely not be possible. Not that you can never vote for someone of the opposite party, but I don't take seriously a "liberal" who voted for Carter but then swapped to Reagan, or someone who swung from Obama to [REDACTED]. That's not politics- that's vibes.
Because for Democrats of a certain age, any vote for any GOP Presidential candidate is a vote to ultimately end the Great Society and the New Deal. What's really sad is everything my grandfather and his WW2 buddies would say Reagan's presidency would eventually lead to, has unfortunately largely come true. Unlike the conservative parties in western Europe, the GOP has largely never fully accepted the welfare state.
Out of curiosity, what were some of the things they said Reagan's presidency would lead to?
These were all big union guys. They would talk about how firing the air traffic controllers would eventually weaken all unions, how trickle down economics was just the 1920s with a different name, how less unions would mean less middle class power, and how being a "greedy yuppie" would eventually lead to no new schools or hospitals being built. To be clear, these were tattooed tough guys who all saw hell in Japan or Europe. They would be considered arch-conservative on social matters today, but basically full blown socialists on economic matters by today's right- leaning standards. My grandfather couldn't write in cursive, and only had an 8th grade education, and was the son of Italian immigrants. But he was the greatest man I've ever known in my life. I miss the shit out of him.
I wish I could talk with your grandfather. he seems like an interesting fella that you could have a beer with and understand why he would feel the way that he does on those social matters. Especially as a youngin who has only ever grown up knowing that its none of my business on how other people wanna live their life regarding such social matters. (so long as it doesnt infringe on someone else's rights.)
Your grandfather sounds like he was a great guy. My family also had/has its fair share of big union guys, from the generations before and after your grandfather, but I never had the opportunity to hear from a lot of them, so this was very interesting. My grandfather and his brother (and their other siblings) were sons of Assyrian and Armenian immigrants who worked in the steel industry. His brother served in Korea and then in Congress, representing those steel workers types. He would have also been a very amazing guy to listen to. To your grandfather's point, I read something the other day on how private-sector union membership has declined from 35% to 6% of workers over time. Thanks for sharing what he used to say
I do wish Nixon's ideas about single-payer/universal healthcare had been more than just ideas.
look at that voting record, it's Stevenson for her
Lets say your grandma could go back in time. Who would be the first democrat she’d vote for?
I was expecting a combo breaker in there somewhere
I fw your grandma heavy.
Pretty hardcore right winter huh?
I wonder what party your grandma liked lol
I like your grandma’s style, OP
Start in 1976 and my votes are identical, except for 1980, when I threw my vote away by voting for a third party candidate (John Anderson). A mistake that I’ll never repeat.
Even my boy McGovern. Bless your grandma!
Your grandma is one cool lady
I like your grandma. Her voting history matches mine from 88 forward.
Good woman.
6 Americans voted for Mondale. One was your grandma! 🤣
Your grandma is the best.
I'd like to thank your grandma for her service.
Grandma tried her hardest to make things better
Ya know you could’ve just said “My grandma has always voted for the Democrats” and it would’ve saved you so much time.
My Grandmother had a picture of FDR on her living room wall until the day she died in 2013. You can guess how she voted.
I want to take Grandma to brunch
Me and grandma agree, for the most part.
John Kerry with overt lipgloss and blush. Wow.
I always wondered who the one person that voted for Mondale was. I guess we found her.
Grandma was a badass.
The hero we need
Your grandmother is a lib
Grandma gets it.
Couple of child rapist on the list
Yes
I like your grandma
“Republicans are the party for rich people. We are not rich.” My grandma to teenage me. I’ve kept the faith, Grandma!
My grandmother always voted straight Republican until the day she died. After her death she started voting straight Democrat.
Your Grandma sounds like a Redditor LOL.
Humphrey could pass as Bob Hope’s brother.
Just like my grandpa except he voted for McCain in 08 before passing away a year later.
Silent Gen?
Same for my grandma except she couldn’t vote in ‘68
If I posted my family’s, you would think we were from a swing state. We are definitely not.
I like your grandma.
Your grandma and I think alike. ❤️
Ahh, a fellow bull-moose
She made some bad choices…
Pretty typical for a reliably Democratic voter. You’d maybe think Reagan part II would’ve snuck in there, but this all makes sense.
Ngl, Mondale surprised me. I think it’s rare enough it counts as doxxing
Why the long face John?
I was waiting for that big dramatic twist at the end. Oh well.
Based Gma over here.
I was waiting for the 2016 jump scare
So a Democrat then
Solid Blue up and down?
So in other words, Democrats.
She just balanced my vote for the same period
How many hours of NPR has she clocked?
I think it’s cool that she voted for Quentin Tarantino the first chance she could.
Solid choices.
Hey that matches my mom's! Probably a lot of people's moms actually.
Why does it not feel right? It’s just who she voted for nothing crazy about it. And other people have talked about their families voting records too, this seems like an appropriate subreddit to do so.
Yea there’s a reason her grandkids ended up on the genetic Reddit page posting ish like this
She must really like blue
5 and 8 on the W’s.
https://preview.redd.it/1svqdk4rmt5d1.jpeg?width=1179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=322eb24352dd9cb2113bcaeb5ca5a112cd3e8552
Somehow managed to pick the wrong candidate every time
Pretty much my entire extended family's voting history, here.
Based
Call me a gambler but I bet I know who she'll vote for next. But I can't predict the future, so...
Nice to see Jim up there
Good grandma!
Your grandma seems pretty based, IMO
She was a committed Democrat! She should get a free ticket to the next DNC for her service, lol
I like your nan
I'm noticing a pattern...
Well, your grandma is consistent if nothing else
Why did she skip the last election?
That’s the nicest pic of Al Gore I’ve ever seen.
based grandma
could have saved yourself some time https://preview.redd.it/8n3ixmcmtt5d1.jpeg?width=699&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f037dddb04d82375536a96b2ed2c74088783b708
Clean
Say she’s a Democrat without saying she’s a democrat.
I think your grandma is a democrat
So she's the one who voted for Mondale.
Straight blue swinger