re: honest question: who here did NOT vote a straight party ballot?

Me.

There is a Republican in the Texas rep race for my district who was on the city council and pushed and voted to shut down businesses during Covid at threat of those business owners losing their business license.

He also voted with developers who wanted to put an eight story tall warehouse right across the street from, and directly adjacent to residential communities. There would have been hundreds of 18-wheelers in and out of there 24 hours a day.

frick.

That.

Guy.

That is the WRONG KIND OF REPUBLICAN to send to the state.

I voted for the Dem. First Dem I voted for in my entire life (except for Edwin Edwards against David Duke). I don't like the Dem, and I could have just not voted in that race. There wasn't another alternative, like a Libertarian, but I needed to send a message. He'll probably still win because there's an enormous amount of low-information voters who just don't pay attention. Anyway, I feel dirty for voting for a Dem, but I just could not give that piece of shite a vote.