Or been tempted to?

Nope. I would never vote for a party of which I am not apart of. Not only is this treasonous, but it is also playing with fire. If I ever felt that my own party's candidate was not a proper choice, I would simply not vote.

I haven't but I'm not a blind devotee. I WOULD if a candidate from an opposing party ever really impressed me. Just hasn't happened yet. I've been disappointed or unimpressed with my party's guy enough to not vote, but never have been impressed by the other side.

Nehh. Voting against ur party (specifically for the party you normally oppose) is a dangerous thing to do.
During every election season, the candidates look for fense sitting members of the opposite side to manipulate into a swing vote.
That's playing with fire because should they get elected, their worm would turn.
If my parties candidate was on some bullshit, I'd opt not to vote period.

Would I? I'd never rule it out, but I don't see it happening, and that isn't because I am against throwing my party under the bus when they are bad. I just see that as sucky as my party can get, the other party has just fallen off the left of the cliff. And voting for a third party is almost always, essentially, not voting. So I don't see it happening.

RiteDiva wrote:

Nehh. Voting against ur party (specifically for the party you normally oppose) is a dangerous thing to do.
During every election season, the candidates look for fense sitting members of the opposite side to manipulate into a swing vote.
That's playing with fire because should they get elected, their worm would turn.
If my parties candidate was on some bullshit, I'd opt not to vote period.

Ditto. I'd never vote Republican....ever....to me that's like letting a rodent in your house because you think it's cute.
Even if by some odd coinicidence I was more impressed by their guy than my parties, I would just not vote.

Technically I'm registered as "unaffiliated" but I'm liberal & vote that way.

Nope. I will never vote Republican. Never. If I'm not feeling a Democratic candidate that much, then I'll skip voting. Or maybe go independent.

I'm not committed to any one party. I like to listen to multiple sides and make an "independent" choice. In other words I'm a fence voter.

I have no party. I happen to be against the party system to begin with!

More to the point, I rarely waist my time actually "voting" in a federal election.

Our system in Canada is different. We have a multi-party system and don't directly elect our leaders. We vote on our local representatives and the party with the most representatives gets in. Right now, we have two main parties an then three other parties, though before the most recent election, we had three main parties and one minor party that still got a lot of votes, though only in one province.

In the past, I've voted for the party, if I didn't know my local candidate well enough, or for the local candidate that I felt would do the best job, re-electing him or her if I felt they deserved to be re-elected or looking at the other party candidates.

Sorry, wrong topic