I used to vote republican because I am "conservative" but the corporate connections and big oil/business connections that the republican party has are too much for me, so now I vote independent (or for more traditional democrats), as I'm not going to give my vote to the Godless commie counter culture dems either... Dems talk the talk about labor and the "poor" etc, but they're as in bed with big business as the repubs (Clinton did that). The last REAL democrat this country had was Jimmy Carter.