Who would Seinfeld characters vote for?

[Nym90]

Elaine is almost certainly a Democrat, as she is strongly pro-choice. Poppy of course is pro-life, and thus probably a Republican.

As for others, Newman is probably a Democrat since he is a postal employee. Hard to say on the others...but Jerry, George, and Kramer all live in Manhattan, so they are probably all Democrats. They also seem like they'd be very much against the religious right; they probably don't care too much about economic issues.

George's fiancee Susan, and her parents were quite wealthy, and thus Republicans most likely. Elaine's boss J. Peterman, likewise.

[Nym90]

Kramer's character is based on Kenny Kramer, a real-life friend of the creator and a Libertarian.  He ran for mayor of New York on the Libertarian line.

The Manhattan Libertarian Party is one of the more activist and extreme LPs.  They had a big cigarette giveaway one year and the next year they handed out toy plastic guns to kids in Harlem.   They were mobbed by people who wanted cigarettes and shouted out of Harlem by angry parents.

Interesting tidbit. Ok, so Kramer would probably be a Libertarian too, then.

[Nym90]

Extremely rich and extremely poor people tend to be Democrats, whereas people in between tend to be Republicans.

I'd like to see some statistics proving that please, especially for your assertion that extremely rich people support the Democrats. It seems to generally be the case that among wealthier people the upper-middle class (and 'soccer mums' etc.) support the democrats rather than the richest in society.

Is Bill Gates a Democrat? I thought I heard before that he was. Warren Buffet is, so that would make the two wealthiest people in America Democrats, at least. So that proves that Phillip is right once you get up to the $30 billion net worth threshold.

In all seriousness, I don't think there are any exit polls that break it down enough to prove whether he is right or wrong. All we know is that those with an income above $100k/year are the most Republican group in exit polls that ask about income; those above $100k/year aren't broken down any further.

The "cutoff" income at which those above that level lean Republican and those below lean Democratic is about $40-45k/year. This is slightly below the median income of all voters (which is about $55k/year), which should favor Republicans, except that the poorest voters (under $15k/year) favor Democrats more strongly than the wealthiest (over $100k/year) favor Republicans.