Scully used to be a Republican, and she's now not entirely sure that she's a *Democrat,* but she's voting for Kerry this year, partially in protest of the war, and partially because she feels betrayed and abandoned by her party, which was once the rock-ribbed, Dwight D. Eisenhower party of fiscal restraint and sober meritocracy, but has now become a dismal stew of anti-intellectualism, religious triumphalism (Catholics, btw, often not a fan of the New Right, knowing full well that Catholics fall low on the list of Bad Things from a fundamentalist POV nowadays, but still *on* the list nonetheless), bad education policy, gutted international intelligence community, and gobs and gobs of money funneled into big oil and energy companies. Also, the anti-intellectualism, did I mention that? Scully *hates* that. (Also, someone who authorized taking her own child off life support because she "wasn't meant to be" is pretty profoundly canonically pro-choice and right-to-die.)

She's still not just real crazy about the Democrats, who strike her as pretty loony and not too good at getting things done, but she's far too practical to throw a vote away on some harebrained third-party candidate just to make a statement. That kind of thing is so...*Mulder.*

Maybe they *are* Mary Poppins and Dick Tracy. Someone should really write that story.