How do video gamers vote

[Mr. Morden]

How do you define "video gamer"?  Do any of you have actual data from market research on the gaming demo?  From a quick Google search, I found this:

http://www.itfacts.biz/65-of-us-households-play-video-games-38-have-consoles-40-are-female/10918

No idea how accurate it is, but it seems like some of you are making some cartoonish stereotypes about who plays video games.

[Jackson]

Either Democrats or Libertarians.

[Vermin Supreme]

Either Democrats or Libertarians.

[The Simpsons Cinematic Universe]

GOP are more pro-censorship, so definitely dems.

[5280]

I'm an avid gamer and consider myself a right leaning Libertarian.  Own all the current gen consoles, PS3, 360 and Wii.

[The Mikado]

Considering most people who play video games are people screwing around with a downloadable Tetris on their smartphone (many of whom are quite old), I don't really think it's any different from the public at large.

[H.E. VOLODYMYR ZELENKSYY]

Considering most people who play video games are people screwing around with a downloadable Tetris on their smartphone (many of whom are quite old), I don't really think it's any different from the public at large.

I'm thinking (and probably so is the OP) that this means people who habitually play video games as a hobby, not just Angry Birds.

[Modernity has failed us]

I'm a Republican gamer.

Most gamers I know are either Rawn Pawl Libertarians or socialists.

[LastVoter]

If we only count people that play over 5 hours a week:
Xbox: even D/R more libertarians than general population(about 2-3x)
PS3: Lean D
Wii: Republican
PC: Democratic, a lot of anti-capitalists.
Here's the leading ideology of the games based on forums I visit
Wc3: social democrats, half of posters from EU half from US
Sc2: US "liberals"
Dota: no coherent ideology, just drunken rants.
Sc2 supplement:
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=330491

[James Monroe]

This demo swung hard to Trump after Gamergate. Toxic white masculinity is connected with gaming culture, young males especially. Reddit and 4chain are symbols of this epidemic, and those are communities that have overlap with this culture.


They are going for either Bernie or Yang for those that are registered as Democrats.

[Roronoa D. Law]

We bringing this back? Ok, I guess. From what I've seen I think it mostly depends on what type of genre they prefer. People who mostly play MMO, games that are Western like Red Dead Redemption and Far Cry, or games based around Nordic mythology are usually Republican and mostly alt-right. People who mostly play jrpgs, indie platformers, and hardcore Nintendo fans except that one closeted guy with Trump picture in his bedroom, for the most part, are liberal-leaning.

[Technocracy Timmy]

Gamers don’t vote as that would require getting off the sofa.

[OSR stands with Israel]

I'm a Republican gamer.

Most gamers I know are either Rawn Pawl Libertarians or socialists.

Wait you used to be a Republican

[darklordoftech]

Nintendo fans: Always Democratic.

“Neckbeard” gamers:

2000: Bush (Tipper and Lieberman terrified them)

2004: Kerry (They disliked No Child Left Behind, Bush’s evangelicalism, and the War on Terror)

2008: Obama (see above)

2012: Unsure

2016: Unsure

[Grassroots]

PC: Democrat Console: Republican

[Canis]

Nintendo fans: Always Democratic.

“Neckbeard” gamers:

2000: Bush (Tipper and Lieberman terrified them)
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2004: Kerry (They disliked No Child Left Behind, Bush’s evangelicalism, and the War on Terror)

2008: Obama (see above)

2012: Unsure Prob Obama but super close like 51-47 type

2016: Def Trump with a lot of votes for third party prob something like 46-39-10-5

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

On electronic voting machines, preferably without a pesky paper ballot,

[Interlocutor is just not there yet]

Gamers don’t vote as that would require getting off the sofa.

Not true. PC gamers typically play in their chair (Less comfortable to use keyboard & mouse on a sofa)

[morgankingsley]

From personal experience DEFINITELY more Republican on Xbox, but way more democrat on virtually any other

[morgankingsley]

I'm a Republican gamer.

Most gamers I know are either Rawn Pawl Libertarians or socialists.

Wait you used to be a Republican

That's lit af

[GM Team Member and Senator WB]

as gamers are the most oppressed minority, they aren't allowed to vote

[JGibson]

Would Madden, NHL, or FIFA-type gamers be a swing demographic, D-favored, or R-favored?


My guess is that FIFA players would lean D, while Madden players are a tossup and NHL ones may be R-leaning.

[Former President tack50]

Trying to actually get a serious answer, gamers are most definitely much more male and much younger than the average voter.

Using the 2016 exit polls, men split 41-52 for Trump (or 13 points to the right of the national PV) while people age 18-29 split 55-36 for Clinton (or 17 points to the left of the national PV).

Since not all gamers are male or young; these effects would be reduced, and since they also counter each other, I would say the average gamer is a swing demographic, possibly very slightly to the left.

Doing stereotpyical console splits for fun, Nintendo gamers would be Safe D, Sony gamers would be tossups, PC gamers would be Lean R and Xbox gamers would be Likely R

Would Madden, NHL, or FIFA-type gamers be a swing demographic, D-favored, or R-favored?

My guess is that FIFA players would lean D, while Madden players are a tossup and NHL ones may be R-leaning.

I imagine FIFA players would be much more hispanic than average? (and thus safe D). It would follow roughly the same divides as those same sports, except with a much younger average age.

[Orser67]

Trying to actually get a serious answer, gamers are most definitely much more male and much younger than the average voter.

Using the 2016 exit polls, men split 41-52 for Trump (or 13 points to the right of the national PV) while people age 18-29 split 55-36 for Clinton (or 17 points to the left of the national PV).

Yeah, this is probably the starting point for a serious answer. This Pew article shows that gamers tend to be younger, less white, male, and are most likely to have had "some college". So that kind of splits both ways for both parties.

[Continential]

Parodox game fans: Democrats or the liberal party.