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I research the candidates, even if it's just enough to know one major issue each person is concerned with. In local elections I go for moderates on education, a conservative but open-minded group on finance (the ones who aren't going to stonewall everything but also aren't going to allow development that overloads our infrastructure,) and usually the incumbents (since most of them have been doing well) on things like probate court. Any local politician who pisses me off with some boneheaded policy or stance loses my vote, and I'm not afraid to write in someone.
For state legislature, my big concerns are the budget, the environment, taxes, and whatever idiotic gun control laws the Brady bunch are trying to push on us again. For US congress, it's whichever candidate whose platform doesn't make me nauseous, even if it's a third party who has no real chance.
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