I have no idea. I knew my father until I was 12 and my mother until I was 30, and I cannot remember ever having a single impression about either one’s politics.
I’m guessing you don’t mean the Boston Herald. 
My parents were Adlai Stevenson liberals and my political hero was Hubert Humphrey. My politics have usually meshed with them (except for the Iraq War, which my father was gung ho in favor of, and which he reversed himself for immediate withdrawal a year later).
Way more liberal.
It’s kind of sad, really. I don’t think my parents were as conservative when I was growing up as they are now. Since they retired they’ve gotten isolated and it’s led to an alarming Foxification of their intellects when it comes to political issues.
I just change the subject now.
Way more liberal than my dad, probably on par with my mom although she’s not all that political. Oddly though, on facebook this year, she has been posting a bunch of pro-Obama stuff so maybe she’s more political than I thought.
My dad is a Christian conservative who has proudly voted straight republican tickets his entire life. He says that because he’s registered as a republican, they wouldn’t even count a Democratic vote if he made one (he has a lot of weird misconceptions about the world).
Mom is a liberal through-and-through.
I am slightly more liberal I guess.
My mom has always voted Democrat, but being a Catholic, she isn’t very fond of abortion. But I don’t think she wants it outlawed.
My dad was always a Republican. But in his later years he has become very liberal. He voted for Bush twice, but then voted for Obama in 2008 and will so again this year. He hates what the Republican party has become.
More conservative.
My parents and I are all to the left on the political spectrum, but they’re further left than I am.
Much more liberal. From anyone in the family. Parents and siblings. I’m the black sheep lol. If they start talking politics, I’m not allowed to join in cause it always ends in an argument.
I’m a Libertarian. Neither of my parents can wrap their heads around the idea. Both claim to vote for the man rather than the party. Both have voted Democrat for as many elections as either of them care to remember.
Dad is fully a Republican. Fiscally and socially conservative. Down the line. Prolife except if the mothers life is in danger. Mom is a socialist, but is prolife with some exceptions. I am a Libertarian. Prolife with zero exceptions. Progun. Anti capital punishment. Dad is argumentative and aggressive about his views. Mom wont discuss any politics with anyone who doesn’t agree with her. I love to assert and to debate but if I see someone is becoming uncomfortable I back off. Its like reagan plus carter equals paul (rand). Eek. What a mess. But God bless em.
Liberal and Conservative mean the same thing where I’m from so I avoided the poll by hitting the reject button. (no bacon option?)
My dad was Labor, Unions and left wing in that he demanded a fair go for the worker.
Mum was more right wing than him.
I started out on dads side and after a few years at work moved toward the right. It’s funny how things are relative. I’d probably be considered a far left winger in the USA but in Australia I’m considered by the lefties to be right wing.
More conservative. Dad voted for Obama.:smack:
I was going to say that it would be unpossible to be more right than my mom.
But then, there’s my dad, so I guess it is possible. (They aren’t married anymore.) The main differene seems to be dad’s extreme evangelical right-wingnuttiness, as opposed to my mom’s garden variety, Glenn Beck/Alex Jones/Rush Limbaugh/Fox News right-wingnuttiness. Dad’s got all that plus Pat Buchannan for a good measure.
So yes, I am left of that. Left of that enough that dad doesn’t speak to me.
Really? I cannot imagine a father treating his daughter that way, simply over political differences. (You are a daughter, yes?) Or is there more to it than the politics? I don’t mean to pry. I treasure my “baby girl”, who turns 25 next month.
My parents are all over the map. They voted for McGovern and Goldwater. Currently they are sort of liberal. I am moderately to their right.
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Shodan
Zombie thread, but wotthehell.
My family are all relatively close politically, give or take on certain issues. Most of them voted for Hillary Clinton in the 2008 primaries; I was the odd one out in voting for Obama. Solid middle-class center-lefties all, apart from my eldest sister who’s always been a bit further left than the rest of us.
More liberal - but only because I’m to the Left of Marx. In general, my parents would be considered bleeding hearts in the States, except when it comes to capital punishment, I guess, which my Mom (not Dad) is in favour of.
I’m waaaaaay more liberal than my parents, who were Goldwater Republicans back in the day, and haven’t moved appreciably leftward since.
Took me awhile to get to where I am, though. I was a moderate Republican from my late teens through my mid-20s, left the GOP with John Anderson, was a Dem-leaning centrist from then until the mid-1990s. I didn’t consider myself a Democrat, let alone a liberal, until I was in my 40s. Some days I’m still not sure about the ‘Democrat’ part.
Yes, really. It is sad.
But I will never be Christian (specifically evangelical prosperity gospel Christian), I will never be not divorced (although he is, it apparently matters), I will likely (although I once did, I recovered) never again hold views somewhere right of the Tea Party, and for this he has washed his hands of me and blames Mom for all my faults. Additionally, I have raised an atheist child with budding left wing political views and with critical thinking skills, and thus have runied him, too. What I have done is unforgiveable, and what I have done to my son borders on child abuse. No, really, stop laughing, it totally does.
Nevermind that, minus the Xtian wingnuttery, Mom ticks all those boxes except divorced.
So far as I’m concerned, my dad - my daddy, my real dad, who wore a feather in his hair and dressed like an Indian in a parade once with me, who sang with me and rode me on his shoulders - died when I was seven and he left to drive a truck and never came back. I haven’t got a clue who this bastard is who shares his name and his face.
My stepfather voted Republican but I think it was more of a gesture–his parents were New Deal Democrats, and if one asked him specifics his views really were not very fiscally conservative. My mother is pretty liberal but I am to the left of her.
My grandfather’s views were more significant to me. He was very far to the left (labor activist and Socialist), even more so than I am. He was not, however, in favor of legal abortion on demand, nor am I.