I’ve always been a Democrat, and a pretty passionate one at that. My husband is a registered Republican, but really he is a Libertarian. It makes for quite lively debate from time to time, but oddly we agree on more than we disagree on.
The only time it really caused conflict was during the last election. He was planning to vote for McCain. I would have been OK with that (though I would have been extremely upset if Palin got that close to the presidency). However, he was going to do so based on faulty reasoning and sketchy ‘evidence’, and that I could not abide. We fought about it a number of times, and came to an agreement. We would not speak of it again for a little while, and then we’d have one, and only one, more discussion on the subject at a later date.
I spent three weeks gathering facts and figures from unbiased sources (with the help of the jellies), and presented him with sound reasoning and irrefutable evidence. We had a serious conversation that lasted about two hours. In the end, he voted for Obama.