I'm a registered independent. It cost me the chance to vote for Ron Paul, because the republicans have a rule that you have to register as a republican 30 days before the primary. It sucked. I almost went and voted for Obama.
As far as I know, we don't have party affiliation in Wisconsin. You can join the Democratic or Republican party, and pay for your membership and all. But as far as when you register to vote, you don't register as a Democrat or Republican.
The Obama campaign told me to vote absentee in Wisconsin instead of Missouri (I think they're giving up on Missouri)...but I'm a rebel, so I'm voting in Missouri. Boo! on the Obama campaign wanting to take away my fun of filling out a ballot on election day.
I'm not registered with any party. However, I would definitely be considered to have right of center beliefs in terms of national security and libertarian beliefs on social and economic issues.
Oh, I did change my voter registration from Oregon to Colorado, as it will be more fun to vote in a close election. I'll change it back right after November, however,
I guess I would be a Democrat if I was in USA. In the UK, I can't decide between Labour and Liberal Democrats.
I know this might sound dumb but I was a registered Democrat until Sept. 11. I registered as a republican not to long after 911. In my college days I was far left almost extreme (Vietnam war protester at the UO etc.). As the years went by I did start to move more to the middle and voted who ever I thought was the better candidate usually Democrats but also voted for a fair amount of Republicans and a few independents. I always heard people saying the you get more conservative the older you get and that is true for me at least.
I used to pretend I was Republican, just to piss off the radical left at my high school. :O Good discussions... :[
