You sure are fixated on party.
That's a very lazy way to decide how to vote.
/johnny
In my experience, when the President is (R), things get better. Not perfect, but better. Even if his name is Bush.
When the President is (D), things get worse.
When the congress is (R)-dominated, "getting better" gets faster, and "getting worse" gets slower.
When the congress is (D)-donminated, the opposite result obtains.
So yeah, party affiliation has kinda been a touchstone for me. I won't give a (D) a second look. (R)s get heavily scrutinized, and when possible, face-to-face interrogated during primary season.
Two and a half years ago I had the opportunity to grill a couple of aspiring (R) candidates for congress. One told me, without prompting, everything I wanted to hear on the 2nd, 4th, 5th, 9th, and 10th amendments. The other told me Obamacare could not be repealed. Yeah, I voted in that primary. Neither won. Justin Amash did.
I could have sat home because "my guy" lost. I didn't know much abaout Amash. But when it came to the genereal, guess what I did. And I'm very glad I did, and did it again this month.