After years of eschewing bumper stickers, I finally put two on my Toyota this year: "Grow Cycling" and "Coexist." Benign enough, eh? No retaliation that I can tell, yet, but I did get a person in a colorful VW van with bikes attached yell something and flash the peace sign out the window this summer a couple days before the Rainbow Family gathered nearby. I think maybe he liked the stickers?

I think TE'ers probably lean a little bit bit more liberal because we're mostly women, and we care more about the right to choose -- choose to cycle, choose to vote, choose whether or not to have a child -- because these are not rights that were inalienably ours not so long ago, and we've had to fight for them.

I am not active in politics because I'm a journalist, and I try to maintain whatever impartiality I can. I don't belong to any political groups, because people trying to discredit you could point to your membership in said group as a political leaning. All that being said, I mostly write and edit about fun or noncontroversial things like Girl Scout cookie sales, art openings, missing deer heads, stinky paper towels, obituaries, etc. so maybe I go overboard in my apolitical care. I'm also a perceiver instead of a judger, so I can see both sides. (ENTP)

Many people have assumed that I'm a liberal because I'm A) a woman and B) a journalist. I won't say that they're far off-base, but I vote for the candidate who I believe is either A) best suited for the job or B) the lesser of all evils. I would say that I'm socially liberal, but a little more fiscally conservative than most liberals. I think partly that comes from growing up poor but with parents too proud to accept any government help. Because the poll is so black-and-white, I did click "Liberal," as I guess it's the most accurate choice for me.

In Wyoming, you must register as Rep or Dem to vote in the primary. I am registered as a Rep (unless I change it at the polls because I feel strongly that year about voting for a Dem) because most of the local politicians (county commission, etc.) are running on the Republican primary ticket, and you would lose your voice in the primary if you didn't vote Republican. Generally, there are very few or no Democrats running against each other in the primary. When I told my lesbian sister that I was registered as a Republican, she was aghast. "Things you didn't know about your sister!"

Locally, I always vote for pathways. I almost always vote for the women who choose to run. I almost always vote for the kooks with radical ideas. Nationally, these trends are not so true for me ...