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Question: For which party would you vote in this hypothetical scenario?
#1
Democratic Party
 
#2
Republican Party
 
#3
Abstain/Other
 
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Total Voters: 84

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JA
Jacobin American
Junior Chimp
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« on: March 28, 2017, 02:09:11 PM »
« edited: March 28, 2017, 03:16:40 PM by Delegate J_American »

Democratic Party

Base: Rural, small town, White working class, Whites without a college education, Evangelical Protestants, Blue collar, unionized workers, African Americans, Hispanics, Catholics; Southeast, Appalachia, Rust Belt

Ideology: Populism, Christian Democracy, Social Conservatism

Policies: Pro-life, anti-euthanasia, supports "religious freedom" legislation, supports gun rights, limiting immigration, higher minimum wage, expanding social safety net, universal healthcare, mixed on environment, generally isolationist foreign policy with mixed interventionism/non-interventionism, against free trade

Republican Party

Base: Urban, suburban, managerial class, small business owners, Whites with a college education, Mainline Protestants, Irreligious, White collar, upper class African Americans and Hispanics, Asians; New England, West Coast, Mid-Atlantic

Ideology: Centrism, Classical Liberalism, Conservative Liberalism

Policies: Pro-choice, legalize euthanasia, legalize marijuana, pro-gay marriage, mixed on gun rights, pro-immigration, pro-business, tax cuts and deregulation, balancing budget, right to work, supports business-government environmental collaboration, internationalist foreign policy with mixed interventionism/non-interventionism, supports free trade
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JA
Jacobin American
Junior Chimp
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« Reply #1 on: March 28, 2017, 03:07:27 PM »

I'm trying to figure out what the foreign policies of these two would be. I see the Republicans being a more interventionist/internationalist party with the Democrats having a strong isolationist or Jacksonian stance.

That's essentially correct, but there'd be disagreements within each party, hence why I put mixed. Republicans would be uniformly internationalist, but disagree on military interventionism; Democrats would be more isolationist, but disagree on military interventionism as well.
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JA
Jacobin American
Junior Chimp
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Posts: 6,955
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« Reply #2 on: March 28, 2017, 03:09:58 PM »

The Republican Party here is close to ideal, though I would prefer if they were pro-gun outright rather than mixed, and I'm not sure what "mixed foreign policy" means -- those two things could, put together, make me vote for the occasional Democrat. But I'd be a very solid vote for a standard Republican in this system.

I edited it to specify the foreign policy and trade views of each party.
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