[techostritch]

I don’t necessarily see a correlation between voting straight ticket and not wanting direct democracy. I get what you’re saying, that people aren’t thoughtful of who they’re voting for, but in a bi-polar first past the post system, it’s nigh impossible not to.

I would vote for both liberal and conservative policies if given the opportunity to, but if I have to vote for a collective bag of policies in the form of a politician, the groupings are just too big for me to go to the other side.

But for instance, there are plenty of single issue voters who seem to otherwise vote against their own interests. I think a lot of people would vote for liberal policies if they could also vote anti-abortion. Maybe similarly people would vote for conservative policies if they could vote pro abortion / gay rights / etc.

It seems there is a big constituency of people are say who are pro-union and socially conservative. Who do those people vote for?