# Are you literally a card-carrying political party person?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-literally-a-card-carrying-political-party-person/428798>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [December 4, 2007, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-literally-a-card-carrying-political-party-person/428798 "2007-12-04T17:48:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![Coil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Coil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coil)\
**Post date:** [December 6, 2007, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-literally-a-card-carrying-political-party-person/428798/21 "2007-12-06T14:40:20Z")

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I am a member of a political party, but I do not carry a card in my wallet. I think my party stopped sending out membership cards years ago.

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**Author:** ![SkeptiJess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea666f/32.png) [@SkeptiJess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkeptiJess)\
**Post date:** [December 6, 2007, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-literally-a-card-carrying-political-party-person/428798/22 "2007-12-06T14:55:27Z")

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I have a voter card, and I do carry it in my wallet so I don’t lose it. It has the party I’m registered as printed on it, but I don’t consider myself a ‘card-carrying’ member of that party. I prefer not to self-identify as a member of a political party at all. I have been registered under both parties at different times in my life, but have never voted a straight party ticket.

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**Author:** ![E.Thorp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@E.Thorp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E.Thorp)\
**Post date:** [December 6, 2007, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-literally-a-card-carrying-political-party-person/428798/23 "2007-12-06T15:00:29Z")

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I’m a card-carrying anarchist.

…OK, not really. My voter registration card says “no affiliation,” even though I caucused with the Democrats in 2004. At the time I thought that would involve joining a political party – for the first time in my voting life, which began in 1985 – but if I’m a Democrat now, no one seems to know. Washington state seems pretty casual about this sort of thing.

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**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\
**Post date:** [December 6, 2007, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-literally-a-card-carrying-political-party-person/428798/24 "2007-12-06T15:01:04Z")

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I am not a member of a political party. I vote, and vote regularly, but I refuse to swell either major party’s membership rolls with my name. In this state that means I cannot vote in the primaries, but that doesn’t bother me too much.

I am too disgusted with either major political party to want to be associated with either of them.

Mind you, while I consider myself to be strongly conservative, I also approve highly of the ACLU, and if I had the money would be one of their card-carrying members. I think that there are more conservatives than some posters might think who support the ACLU for the necessary role of testing the limits of the government. I don’t often agree with the cases that the ACLU chooses to endorse, but that doesn’t translate to mean that I disagree with the mission of the ACLU.

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