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FaithS · 12-27-2008, 05:14 PM

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Originally Posted by ewizabeth

I'm an independent Strk, married to a democrat. I work with mostly republicans. Since I supported Obama from the beginning of the primaries, there were some interesting days in the office, lol. I think I raised the collective blood pressure quite a few times when I voiced my opinions.

Strk and Ewiz --

I'm a Canadian citizen, living in the U.S., and unable to vote. However, I am much more politically opinioned than my DH. Sometimes, he will ask my opinion, and vote it. Sometimes, he has his own opinion, and, when he does, it may differ from mine.

If I could register, I would very definitely be a Democrat. DH did not vote in the 2008 elections, because he said he did not have a strong enough opinion to select one candidate over another.

I think, though, that my DD19, who has very little interest in politics, when she chose to vote Obama, did that for my sake, because I couldn't vote.

In the state of KS, however, it makes little difference who one votes for a presidential candidate, because KS electoral votes always go Republican.

I guess that, retaining my Canadian citizenship, even after approx. 25 years of living in the U.S., is my little way of rebelling, and making known that, deep down, I am still Canadian. Those are my roots, even though the U.S. is home and is family (my birth family still lives in Canada, but DH and my kids and his family are here).

I just disagree with so many decisions that the U.S. government makes on a global scale, that becoming "one of them" is just not something that I am currently willing to do.

Maybe that's understandable to Americans; I suspect many Americans, even if they lived outside the U.S., would also be reluctant to give up their citizenship.

~ Faith