What Political Party Do You Support

[Psychonaut]

For Americans, what political party (or parties) do you support?

Depending on the issues, candidates and municipal levels involved I'll usually support either a candidate from the Constitution Party or the Libertarian Party. I find that Constitution Party candidates are more to my liking when it comes to immigration and foreign trade issues since they're effectively a nativist party. However, they're a bit too strongly of a Christian party, so I'll support Libertarian candidates in local elections from time to time as well.

America First Party

The America First Party is a paleoconservative third party in the United States.

The party was formed in 2002 when a group of Pat Buchanan supporters left the Reform Party. The party is pro-life, opposes all gun control, seeks to end affirmative action, racial quotas, and illegal and unlimited immigration. Buchanan himself has never publicly professed any affiliation with the party, however, his books are for sale on the party's website "[A]utographed... specially for the Party"[1] The AFP has attracted individuals such as former Boston mayor and Vatican ambassador Raymond Flynn and former John Birch Society president John McManus. The party's web page shows recent press releases and articles on current issues which showcase the organization's positions. The AFP also publishes a 12-page newspaper which illustrates its policy positions and focuses on current problems in government.

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America's Independent Party

America's Independent Party is a conservative American political party formed in 2008 as an alternative to the Republican, Democratic and other parties.

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Boston Tea Party

The Boston Tea Party is an American political party which espouses a libertarian ideology. The party was founded in 2006 by a group of former Libertarian Party (LP) members who criticized the LP for its "abdication of political responsibilities", saying that "Americans deserve and desperately need a pro-freedom party that forcefully advocates libertarian solutions to the issues of today".[1]

On September 11, 2008, the libertarian website LewRockwell.com posted an article by libertarian economist Walter Block, in which the author proclaimed his preference for the candidates of the Boston Tea Party over those of the LP.[2] Block and other libertarians have expressed discomfort over the "unlibertarian" history of the LP's 2008 presidential candidate, Bob Barr, a former Republican congressman.

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Constitution Party

The Constitution Party is a nationalist[1] United States political party rooted in the paleoconservative movement. It was founded as the U.S. Taxpayers' Party in 1992. The party's official name was changed to the Constitution Party in 1999; however, some state affiliate parties are known under different names. The party's goal as stated in its own words is "to restore our government to its Constitutional limits and our law to its Biblical foundations." The party puts a large focus on immigration, calling for stricter penalties towards illegal immigrants and a moratorium on legal immigration until all federal subsidies to immigrants are discontinued.[2] The party absorbed the American Independent Party, originally founded for George Wallace's 1968 presidential campaign. The American Independent Party of California was an affiliate of the Constitution Party since its founding, but disaffiliated itself after the 2008 Constitution Party Convention to support Alan Keyes and his America's Independent Party. The Constitution Party's affiliate in California now bears the name of California Constitution Party.

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Democratic Party

The Democratic Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Republican Party. It is the oldest political party in continuous operation in the United States and it is one of the oldest parties in the world.[3][4] Today, the party supports a center-left platform.[

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Green Party

The Green Party of the United States (GPUS) is one of the political parties in the United States, and similar in mission to many of the worldwide Green Parties. The Greens, a voluntary association of state parties, have been active as a nationally recognized political party since 2001. Prior to national formation, many state affiliates had already formed and were recognized by their corresponding states. The Association of State Green Parties (ASGP), a forerunner organization, first gained widespread public attention during Ralph Nader's presidential runs in 1996 and 2000. With the founding of the Green Party of the United States, the party established a national political presence becoming the primary national Green organization in the U.S. eclipsing the earlier Greens/Green Party USA which emphasized non-electoral movement building.

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Libertarian Party

The Libertarian Party is a United States political party founded on December 11, 1971[1]. In the thirty states where voters can register by party there are 225,529 voters registered with the Libertarian Party, making it one of the largest of America's alternative political parties[2]. Hundreds of Libertarian candidates have been elected or appointed to public office, and thousands have run for office under the Libertarian banner[3].

The political platform of the Libertarian Party reflects that group's particular brand of libertarianism, favoring minimally regulated, laissez-faire markets, strong civil liberties, minimally regulated migration across borders, and non-interventionism in foreign policy that respects freedom of trade and travel to all foreign countries.

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Reform Party

The Reform Party of the United States of America (abbreviated Reform Party USA or RPUSA, generally known simply as the Reform Party) is a political party in the United States, founded by Ross Perot in 1995 who said Americans were disillusioned with the state of politics—as being corrupt and unable to deal with vital issues—and desired a viable alternative to the Republican and Democratic Parties.

Its biggest victory came when Jesse Ventura was elected governor of Minnesota in 1998. Since then, the party has been fraught with infighting.

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Republican Party

The Republican Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Democratic Party. Founded by abolitionists in 1854, it is often called the Grand Old Party or the GOP. Today the party supports a center-right platform.

The Republican Party has the second most registered voters as of 2004 with 55 million, encompassing roughly one-third of the electorate.[2] Polls over the last year have found that twenty-one to twenty-six percent of Americans self-identify as Republicans.[3][4][5]

There have been nineteen Republican Presidents. Republicans currently fill a minority of seats in both the United States Senate and the House of Representatives, hold a minority of state governorships, and control a minority of state legislatures.

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Socialist Equality Party

The Socialist Equality Party is a Trotskyist political party in the United States, one of a few Socialist Equality Parties around the world affiliated to the International Committee of the Fourth International (ICFI).

In addition, it has participated in recent elections with the aim of opposing the American occupation of Iraq and building a mass socialist party with an international perspective. Despite having been active for over a decade, the SEP held its founding congress in 2008, where it also adopted a statement of principles.

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Socialist Party

The Socialist Party USA (Socialist Party of the United States of America) is one of the heirs to the Socialist Party of America of Eugene V. Debs and Norman Thomas. It is a democratic socialist, multi-tendency party, advocating a broad-based, democratic social revolution from below. Its youth affiliate is the Young People's Socialist League.

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Socialist Workers Party

The Socialist Workers Party (SWP) is a communist political party in the United States. The group places a priority on what it calls "solidarity work" to aid strikes and other labor disputes and is strongly supportive of the Cuban Revolution. The SWP publishes The Militant, a weekly newspaper that dates back to 1928 (with interruptions), and maintains Pathfinder Press, which publishes titles by past and present SWP leaders (James P. Cannon, Farrell Dobbs, Evelyn Reed and Jack Barnes) as well as by leftists from Vladimir Lenin and Leon Trotsky to Malcolm X and Che Guevara.

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Workers World Party

Workers World Party (WWP) is a Communist party in the United States, founded in 1959 by a group led by Sam Marcy.[1] Marcy and his followers split from the Socialist Workers Party in 1958 over a series of long-standing differences, among them Marcy's group's support for Henry A. Wallace's Progressive Party in 1948, the positive view they held of the Chinese Revolution led by Mao Zedong, and their defense of the 1956 Soviet intervention in Hungary, all of which the SWP opposed.

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Working Families Party

The Working Families Party (WFP) is a minor political party in the United States founded in New York in 1998. The party also has chapters in Connecticut, South Carolina, and Oregon, and is working towards establishing itself in Massachusetts and California[1].

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[SwordoftheVistula]

I'm a member of the Republican Party and on the local Republican Town Committee. Philosophically I support the Constitution and Libertarian parties and vote for them when I can, but our political system with 'first-past-the-post' elections and the strong & independent executive branch is geared towards a 2-party system, so Republican it is.

[Cato]

Conservative Party of New York State.

http://www.cpnys.org/

[Octothorpe]

I don't belong to any party, but when I can, I vote Libertarian. Now, since they're often kept off the ballot by the majority parties, I'm often forced to choose between Republicans and Democrats, neither of whom I'm thrilled with. However, I usually hold my nose and cast a ballot for the GOP, since, as one old farmer I once worked for put it, "I wouldn't give the sweat off my balls to a Democrat if he was dyin' of thirst!"

[Birka]

The source on the Libertarian Party says they are a little lax on immigration. I think the Libertarian Party has a large part that wants the Fed. government to protect our borders, as is their Constitutional duty.