Fine. I voted straight Republican ballot just like I always have since 1976.
You’ve got three presidential elections on me, but I cut my teeth on Oregon ‘Pub politics, which are kind of messy.
Packwood and Hatfield just about cancelled each other out on any controversial issue (the two ‘Pub Senators)—including, I found out later, sexual deviancy. (Hatfield almost certainly batted for the other team).
As a pro-life family we were pro-Hatfield, anti-Packwood. While there are some things that Packwood stood for that Hatfield didn’t that we agreed with, on the whole we would rather have had Wayne Morse (the Republican-turned independent-turned Democrat who died in 1974 that Packwood had first defeated) or Wayne Morse’s horse.
I don’t think I’ve ever voted for a Dem, as I’ve never lived in a place where that party hasn’t gone completely nuts, but that doesn’t mean that I won’t write in Wayne Morse (or his horse) or whomever if the Pub stinks.
If voting actually made a difference, it would be illegal (Twain)