politics?

I seem to find myself talking about politics a lot lately. I'm not a very political person overall, I have a few issues I'll get riled up about, but I don't pay enough attention or do enough research to have very many strong opinions. However, I mostly just assume everyone I know is liberal, which I've discovered is incorrect. I think it's because my group of friends in high school bonded over being the few liberals in Santa Maria, and then I moved to Santa Cruz where it's all bleeding heart tree hugging hippie communists.

So...where do all y'all stand, flist? Liberal? Conservative? Somewhere in between? Hate politics and really coldn't care less? Any particular issues you get especially fired up about? I don't want to start any sort of political war on my LJ, but I was just kinda curious.