During the 2020 election, I stayed up all night researching all the different local candidates. Like literally I was up at 4 am and drove to my local rec center to put the ballot in the ballot box
by the way, all of them suck. some of the positions had 0 opposition and when you look up the candidate, there's no information about who they are, what they do, what they've done, and what their stances are
During the primaries I don't spend literal hours researching, but I do spend like an hour or two just going through all the candidates hoping to find a morsel of information on their actual policies. This year I just went by endorsements and if they had an endorsement from some police shit, they were immediately out. Nobody has policy positions or goals beyond vague "I'll do good."
As for the most lib thing I've done, I used to do the whole "communism works on paper, but when you account for human nature it doesn't work and is inherently worse."