NEW 2012 FORUM FEATURE: "Who will hypothetical people vote for?" Omnibus Thread!

[Senator Snowstalker]

Ryan: 53 years old, works in a shipyard in South Boston. Unionized, practicing Catholic, married with one grown child in college and one in high school. Recovering alcoholic, but has begun to have a beer again once in a while. Pro-life, undecided on same-sex marriage (used to strongly oppose it). Approved of Romney as governor and voted for him in 2002, but by  2006 somewhat disapproved of him.

Isaac: 68 years old, lives in Long Island and commutes to Wall Street. Jewish, multi-millionare investment banker. Divorced twice. Socially tolerant/liberal (has a gay son), but very hawkish and pro-Israel (but leans towards exiting Afghanistan in 2014). Fiscally moderate; opposes Dodd-Frank but supports reinstating Glass-Steagall, supports Social Security reform but also supports universal health care.

Allison: 38 years old, lives in Anaheim, California, works as a manager of a local Target. Half white and half Vietnamese; her father was a Vietnam veteran who brought a wife from South Vietnam. Speaks fluent English and Vietnamese. Married with two young children. Former Catholic, now a member of a Methodist church.

[For Oklahoma]

Ryan: 53 years old, works in a shipyard in South Boston. Unionized, practicing Catholic, married with one grown child in college and one in high school. Recovering alcoholic, but has begun to have a beer again once in a while. Pro-life, undecided on same-sex marriage (used to strongly oppose it). Approved of Romney as governor and voted for him in 2002, but by  2006 somewhat disapproved of him.

Maybe Romney, possibly Virgil Goode.

Isaac: 68 years old, lives in Long Island and commutes to Wall Street. Jewish, multi-millionare investment banker. Divorced twice. Socially tolerant/liberal (has a gay son), but very hawkish and pro-Israel (but leans towards exiting Afghanistan in 2014). Fiscally moderate; opposes Dodd-Frank but supports reinstating Glass-Steagall, supports Social Security reform but also supports universal health care.

Rocky Anderson.

Allison: 38 years old, lives in Anaheim, California, works as a manager of a local Target. Half white and half Vietnamese; her father was a Vietnam veteran who brought a wife from South Vietnam. Married with two young children. Former Catholic, now a member of a Methodist church.

Maybe Romney? Depends on her stance on war in general. Considering her father is a veteran, she may have witnessed firsthand his possible PTSD.

I'm gonna say Obama.

[For Oklahoma]

Overly-unneeded analysis of a hypothetical voter.

Obama.

As opposed to just shouting out a name?

Sorry, I know reading is hard for some people. Just sound it out, next time.

Was 5 paragraphs necessary though? I could understand a few sentences, but that's over-analysis.

[For Oklahoma]

I never crowned myself chief of anything. I also never said that you analysis was bad, it was rather interesting, but I just found it strange that you used that much analysis. My apologies.

[Vermin Supreme]

Ryan: 53 years old, works in a shipyard in South Boston. Unionized, practicing Catholic, married with one grown child in college and one in high school. Recovering alcoholic, but has begun to have a beer again once in a while. Pro-life, undecided on same-sex marriage (used to strongly oppose it). Approved of Romney as governor and voted for him in 2002, but by  2006 somewhat disapproved of him.

Isaac: 68 years old, lives in Long Island and commutes to Wall Street. Jewish, multi-millionare investment banker. Divorced twice. Socially tolerant/liberal (has a gay son), but very hawkish and pro-Israel (but leans towards exiting Afghanistan in 2014). Fiscally moderate; opposes Dodd-Frank but supports reinstating Glass-Steagall, supports Social Security reform but also supports universal health care.

Allison: 38 years old, lives in Anaheim, California, works as a manager of a local Target. Half white and half Vietnamese; her father was a Vietnam veteran who brought a wife from South Vietnam. Speaks fluent English and Vietnamese. Married with two young children. Former Catholic, now a member of a Methodist church.

Romney

Obama

Lean Romney voter because she's half Vietnamese

[Progressive Realist]

Hypothetical Voter:
Name: Julia Wallace
Age: 40
Race: White
Sex: Female
Place of birth: Plano, Texas
Place of residence: Cedar Park, Texas
Education: BA in Communications, University of Texas-Austin
Occupation: Human Resources Specialist
Personal Income: $42,000/year
Family: Husband (40) is a Marketing Manager (Personal Income: $70,000/year), 2 children (ages 9 and 7)
Household/Family income: $102,000/year
Religion: United Methodist

[Bacon King]

Overly-unneeded analysis of a hypothetical voter.

Obama.

At the bottom of the main board is a place where we've all collectively made over 350,000 posts arguing over the leadership of an imaginary country. I don't think anyone on this forum has the right to accuse anyone else of making unneeded posts.

[Senator Snowstalker]

Isaac

Allison

I mostly agree with Ryan's analysis, but if it matters, Isaac is Jewish and Allison is Vietnamese (IIRC they're more Republican)

[For Oklahoma]

I never crowned myself chief of anything. I also never said that you analysis was bad, it was rather interesting, but I just found it strange that you used that much analysis. My apologies.

So my analysis was both "rather interesting," and "overly-unneeded."? Umm, okay. Thanks, I guess.

Doing more work than one needs to do isn't inherently a bad thing.

[Vermin Supreme]

Julia Wallace-Romney



Name: John M. Kennedy
Age: 45
Race: White
Sex: Male
Place of birth: Manchester New Hampshire
Place of residence: St Paul Minnesota
Education: BA in Special Education, University of California
Occupation: Special Education teacher in History
Personal Income: $75,000/year
Family: Son(16), spouse died when the son was 2 years old.
Religion: Atheist

Voting Record: Michael Dukakis 1988, Bill Clinton 1992 and 1996, Ralph Nader 2000, John Kerry 2004, Barack Obama 2008. Primaries: Paul Simon in 1988, Jerry Brown in 1992, Bill Bradley in 2000, Howard Dean in 2004 but was thinking about voting Dennis Kucinich in 2004, Mike Gravel earlier in 2007 but then switch his support to Dennis Kucinich later on. Voted for Paul Wellstone in 1990/1996, Dean Barkley in 1994, Mark Dayton in 2000, Walter Mondale in 2002,  Amy Klobuchar in 2006, Al Franken in 2008. Voted straight Dem in governor races except in 1998 when he cast his vote for Jesse Ventura.

[Vermin Supreme]

Julia Wallace-Romney



Name: John M. Kennedy
Age: 45
Race: White
Sex: Male
Place of birth: Manchester New Hampshire
Place of residence: St Paul Minnesota
Education: BA in Special Education, University of California
Occupation: Special Education teacher in History
Personal Income: $75,000/year
Family: Son(16), spouse died when the son was 2 years old.
Religion: Atheist

Voting Record: Michael Dukakis 1988, Bill Clinton 1992 and 1996, Ralph Nader 2000, John Kerry 2004, Barack Obama 2008. Primaries: Paul Simon in 1988, Jerry Brown in 1992, Bill Bradley in 2000, Howard Dean in 2004 but was thinking about voting Dennis Kucinich in 2004, Mike Gravel earlier in 2007 but then switch his support to Dennis Kucinich later on. Voted for Paul Wellstone in 1990/1996, Dean Barkley in 1994, Mark Dayton in 2000, Walter Mondale in 2002,  Amy Klobuchar in 2006, Al Franken in 2008. Voted straight Dem in governor races except in 1998 when he cast his vote for Jesse Ventura.

Uhh, yeah, don't think this one needs any exit poll analysis. She's voted Democrat in every election she's ever voted in (except 1 vote 14 years ago). Don't see how she could be anything but an Obama voter in '12.

You mean him and not her.

[I Can't Get That Sound You Make, Out Of My Head]

Ryan: 53 years old, works in a shipyard in South Boston. Unionized, practicing Catholic, married with one grown child in college and one in high school. Recovering alcoholic, but has begun to have a beer again once in a while. Pro-life, undecided on same-sex marriage (used to strongly oppose it). Approved of Romney as governor and voted for him in 2002, but by  2006 somewhat disapproved of him.


Isaac: 68 years old, lives in Long Island and commutes to Wall Street. Jewish, multi-millionare investment banker. Divorced twice. Socially tolerant/liberal (has a gay son), but very hawkish and pro-Israel (but leans towards exiting Afghanistan in 2014). Fiscally moderate; opposes Dodd-Frank but supports reinstating Glass-Steagall, supports Social Security reform but also supports universal health care.

Allison: 38 years old, lives in Anaheim, California, works as a manager of a local Target. Half white and half Vietnamese; her father was a Vietnam veteran who brought a wife from South Vietnam. Speaks fluent English and Vietnamese. Married with two young children. Former Catholic, now a member of a Methodist church.

All three of these lean Democrat.

Hypothetical Voter:
Name: Julia Wallace
Age: 40
Race: White
Sex: Female
Place of birth: Plano, Texas
Place of residence: Cedar Park, Texas
Education: BA in Communications, University of Texas-Austin
Occupation: Human Resources Specialist
Personal Income: $42,000/year
Family: Husband (40) is a Marketing Manager (Personal Income: $70,000/year), 2 children (ages 9 and 7)
Household/Family income: $102,000/year
Religion: United Methodist

Probably a Romney supporter.

Julia Wallace-Romney



Name: John M. Kennedy
Age: 45
Race: White
Sex: Male
Place of birth: Manchester New Hampshire
Place of residence: St Paul Minnesota
Education: BA in Special Education, University of California
Occupation: Special Education teacher in History
Personal Income: $75,000/year
Family: Son(16), spouse died when the son was 2 years old.
Religion: Atheist

Voting Record: Michael Dukakis 1988, Bill Clinton 1992 and 1996, Ralph Nader 2000, John Kerry 2004, Barack Obama 2008. Primaries: Paul Simon in 1988, Jerry Brown in 1992, Bill Bradley in 2000, Howard Dean in 2004 but was thinking about voting Dennis Kucinich in 2004, Mike Gravel earlier in 2007 but then switch his support to Dennis Kucinich later on. Voted for Paul Wellstone in 1990/1996, Dean Barkley in 1994, Mark Dayton in 2000, Walter Mondale in 2002,  Amy Klobuchar in 2006, Al Franken in 2008. Voted straight Dem in governor races except in 1998 when he cast his vote for Jesse Ventura.

Yeah...Obama obviously.

[For Oklahoma]

John M. Kennedy - Obama, pretty safely.

[Vermin Supreme]

John M. Kennedy - Obama, pretty safely.

He could vote for third party candidate since he hates Obama stances on issues such as the Patriot Axt and his foreign policy.

[For Oklahoma]

John M. Kennedy - Obama, pretty safely.

He could vote for third party candidate since he hates Obama stances on issues such as the Patriot Axt and his foreign policy.

Perhaps Rocky Anderson.

[Senator Snowstalker]

Is that you or your father?

But tilt Obama if he does vote.

[For Oklahoma]

Hmm...that's tough. I'd probably say lean Obama, but it depends on his views.


Name: Klaus Schulze
Age: 49
Race: White
Sex: Male
Place of Birth: Cologne, Germany
Place of residence: Duluth, Minnesota
Occupation: Flower shop manager
Personal income: $36,000/year
Family: Divorced; son Andrew (20) attends University of Iowa.
Religion: Catholic, non-practicing.
Past votes: Bush (2000), didn't vote (2004), Nader (2008)

Views:

Fiscally center-right, social conservative, believes we should only intervene militarily for humanitarian purposes.

[Progressive Realist]

Hypothetical Voter:
Name: John Stevens
Age: 73
Race: White
Sex: Male
Place of birth: Akron, Ohio
Place of residence: Phoenix, Arizona
Education: High school graduate
Occupation: Retired car dealership manager
Personal income: $23,000/year
Family: Wife (70) is a retired customer service representative (personal income: $16,000/year), 6 children (ages 47, 45, 44, 42, 40, and 37), none living at home
Household/family income: $39,000/year
Religion: Catholic
Past votes: 1960-Kennedy, 1964-Johnson, 1968-Humphrey, 1972-Nixon, 1976-Carter, 1980-Reagan, 1984-Reagan, 1988-Bush, 1992-Clinton, 1996-Clinton, 2000-Bush, 2004-Bush, 2008-McCain

[For Oklahoma]

Romney.

[EmersonAdams]

Hypothetical Voter:
Name: John Stevens
Age: 73
Race: White
Sex: Male
Place of birth: Akron, Ohio
Place of residence: Phoenix, Arizona
Education: High school graduate
Occupation: Retired car dealership manager
Personal income: $23,000/year
Family: Wife (70) is a retired customer service representative (personal income: $16,000/year), 6 children (ages 47, 45, 44, 42, 40, and 37), none living at home
Household/family income: $39,000/year
Religion: Catholic
Past votes: 1960-Kennedy, 1964-Johnson, 1968-Humphrey, 1972-Nixon, 1976-Carter, 1980-Reagan, 1984-Reagan, 1988-Bush, 1992-Clinton, 1996-Clinton, 2000-Bush, 2004-Bush, 2008-McCain

More than likely, this man will vote for Romney. If he has voted Republican in three elections, Obama's four years in office probably wouldn't be enough to sway his vote. If he is catholic, and especially an older catholic, he is probably strongly opposed to the Obama administration's new rules on contraception access. The only thing that might sway him is the Ryan budget, which will drastically restructure many federal safety nets (i.e. medicare vouchers). If Ryan becomes Romney's running mate, there is a good chance he may vote Obama, but barring that I think he's a solid Romney voter.

[Senator Snowstalker]

Hypothetical Voter:

Name: John Caceres (legally Juan Cáceres)
Age: 47
Race: White Hispanic
Sex: Male
Place of birth: Havana, Cuba
Place of residence: Maywood, New Jersey
Education: 4-year college graduate
Occupation: Engineer for AT&T
Personal income: $120,000/year
Family: Wife (45) is a homemaker, 2 children (16 & 17)
Household/family income: $120,000/year
Religion: Catholic (lapsed, basically agnostic)

[For Oklahoma]

Hypothetical Voter:

Name: John Caceres (legally Juan Cáceres)
Age: 47
Race: White Hispanic
Sex: Male
Place of birth: Havana, Cuba
Place of residence: Maywood, New Jersey
Education: 4-year college graduate
Occupation: Engineer for AT&T
Personal income: $120,000/year
Family: Wife (45) is a homemaker, 2 children (16 & 17)
Household/family income: $120,000/year
Religion: Catholic (lapsed, basically agnostic)

Is this your dad?

[Vermin Supreme]

People with the following ITunes list of the following artists.


Person 1:


Michael Jackson

Poison

Bruce Springston

Motley Crue

John Melloncamp

Cyndi Lauper

Duran Duran

Madonna

Warrant

Run DMC

Huey Lewis




Person 2 ITunes playlist:


Atmosphere

N.W.A

Dr Dre

Eminem

James Brown

Rage against the Machine

Incubus

Spoon

Black Keys

Public Emeny

System of a Down

Rise Against

MGMT

Nirvana

Immortal Technique

Most Def

Wu Tang Clan

The Pixies

Radiohead

Foo Fighters

Pink Floyd

[So the Heroes Fall]

1 is clearly lean Romney. 2 is clearly lean Obama.

[Vermin Supreme]

1 is clearly lean Romney. 2 is clearly lean Obama.

How are they "lean" and not just regularly Romney and Obama? Person 1 seems like a Mike Naso fella and person 2 seems like he'll strongly support Obama since all of the artists listed with the exception of Pink Floyd all seem to have fans that traditional support the Democratic party. Also what would you say my movie fans and Miinesota guy vote for in the upcoming election?

Romney

Next: movie fans


Movie fan 1

Transformers

The Fast and Furious

Total Recall

First Blood

Die Hard

Iron Man

Crank

Full Metal Jacket

Movie fan 2:

Twilight

Love Actually

Titanic

Bridesmaids

The Notebook

New Years Eve

Pearl Harbor

Movie fan 3:


Step Brothers

Donnie Darko

Pulp Fiction

Brick

Star Trek 2: Wrath of Khan

Kill Bill


Movie fan 4:

Goodfellas

Friday

The Departed

Casino

Boyz in the Hood

Scarface

8 Mile

Julia Wallace-Romney



Name: John M. Kennedy
Age: 45
Race: White
Sex: Male
Place of birth: Manchester New Hampshire
Place of residence: St Paul Minnesota
Education: BA in Special Education, University of California
Occupation: Special Education teacher in History
Personal Income: $75,000/year
Family: Son(16), spouse died when the son was 2 years old.
Religion: Atheist

Voting Record: Michael Dukakis 1988, Bill Clinton 1992 and 1996, Ralph Nader 2000, John Kerry 2004, Barack Obama 2008. Primaries: Paul Simon in 1988, Jerry Brown in 1992, Bill Bradley in 2000, Howard Dean in 2004 but was thinking about voting Dennis Kucinich in 2004, Mike Gravel earlier in 2007 but then switch his support to Dennis Kucinich later on. Voted for Paul Wellstone in 1990/1996, Dean Barkley in 1994, Mark Dayton in 2000, Walter Mondale in 2002,  Amy Klobuchar in 2006, Al Franken in 2008. Voted straight Dem in governor races except in 1998 when he cast his vote for Jesse Ventura.