Describe the likely political views of the previous hypothetical person

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Conservative Republican who decided against voting for Trump on a coin toss, opting instead to write in Evan McMullin.


Gender: Female
Age: Mid-20s
Hometown: Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Current location: King County, WA
Race/ethnicity: Asian/Vietnamese and Cham
Religion: Atheist, but mother was raised Catholic and father was raised Buddhist.
Relationship status: Married to her high school sweetheart
Occupation: Orthodontic resident
Education: DDS, BS in Biochemistry and BA in Communications
Other: Moved to the US at 17, attended community college for two years. Dislikes male "feminists". Her family's house once got trashed during a BLM protest.

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This lady sounds like a Republican-leaning swing voter.

Gender: Male
Age: 29
Race: White
Location: Carmel, IN
Hometown: Indianapolis, IN
Education: Postgraduate
Occupation: Attorney for corporate law firm in downtown Indianapolis
Family: Single
Religion: Mainline Protestant (think Episcopal Church, PCUSA, ELCA)

That fictional voter is a composite of various Vietnamese-American millennials I know, but primarily based on an acquaintance who was born overseas. I tried to spin their profile so they would be considered Republican-leaning in the Pacific NW but not in California or Texas.

Independent who voted for Obama and supported Bernie Sanders but did not vote in the 2016 general election. Has voted both Dem and GOP at the state and local levels.

Gender: MtF transsexual
Age: 25
Race/Ethnicity: Biracial- Anglo-Celtic and Sri Lankan
Religion: Nonreligious, but raised Catholic
Current location: San Francisco, CA
Hometown: Shoreline, WA
Education: BS in Marketing
Occupation: Advertising consultant
Relationship status: dating a software developer
Other: opposes affirmative action and is wary of Abrahamic fundamentalism. Subscribed to unz.com and Razib Khan

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An independent who did not vote in the 2016 election but otherwise votes Republican.


Gender: Male
Age: 23
Hometown: Portland, OR
Current Location: Redmond, WA
Race/Ethnicity: Half Gujarati half Persian
Religion: Atheist
Relationship status: Single
Education: BS in Electrical Engineering, currently in grad school
Occupation: Part-time kendo instructor
Pro: LGBT, public education, science, anime
Con: vegans, feminists, affirmative action, Religious Right

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Left-leaning independent who voted for Sanders. Disgusted at Hillary, but even more disgusted at Trump. Often has arguments against his weeaboo friends over Trump and the alt-right.

Gender: Male
Age: 60
Hometown: Nanjing, China
Current Locations: Franklin Township, NJ and Beijing, China
Race/Ethnicity: Chinese-American
Relationship Status: Married
Education Level: PhD
Occupation: Biochemist
Issues: Supports low taxes but disliked the Iraq War
Other: Based on a real person - my dad. Good luck guessing!

That was based on one of my real-life friends. We have a mutual dislike of the GOP establishment and the Religious Right, but somewhat disagree on other things. He did not support Sanders or Clinton in 2016, nor did he vote in the general election.


Your post: Independent/Democrat-leaner who voted Kerry-Obama-Obama-Trump.


Gender: Female
Age: 42
Hometown: Shaker Heights, OH
Current location: Camden, NJ
Race/Ethnicity: White (Arab and Polish) + 1/4 Indian
Religion: Roman Catholic
Education level: Bachelor's degree
Occupation: Nurse
Issues: Critical of the Affordable Care Act and of abortion (but not a pro-lifer). Lost her adopted daughter to a jihadist school shooting.

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Republican-leaning Independent, hates the Religious Right and the fossil fuel lobby but votes GOP anyway

Gender: Male
Age: 24
Hometown: Tigard, OR
Current location: Daly City, CA
Race/Ethnicity: White-WASP
Religion: Latter-Day Saints
Education: BS in Computer Science from Caltech
Occupation: Works at Facebook
Other: Eldest of four siblings, was high school valedictorian. Delayed college for two years to go on a Mission trip in a Spanish-speaking region of the Southwestern US.

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Staunch Republican who enthusiastically voted for Trump in the primaries and general election.


Gender: Male
Age: 25
Race/Ethnicity: Black/Ethiopian
Religion: Orthodox Christianity
Hometown: Addis Ababa but moved to Tacoma, WA at age 15
Current Location: New Haven, CT
Occupation: Mechanical engineer
Education: Bachelors
Relationship status/family: youngest of five siblings, living with girlfriend
Other: more homophobic and pro-life than he lets on to his coworkers, generally apolitical

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Moderate socially liberal and hawkish Republican. Voted for Gary Johnson in 2016.


Gender: Male
Age: 63
Race/Ethnicity: White (German/Irish/Polish)
Religion: Raised Catholic, now has vaguely Buddhist influenced/Deistic spirituality
Hometown: Glendale, California
Current Location: Seattle, Washington
Occupation: Was an early computer pioneer, ran a small software company that in the early 80s was a rival to Apple and IBM but ended up being sued for copyright infringement and bankrupted. Fell out of touch with technology development afterwards and mostly worked odd jobs until the great recession. Has been unemployed since 2009 and been periodically homeless since. Currently lives with and is supported by an old friend and spends most of his days bumming around libraries and bookstores.
Education: College Graduate (Graduated Stanford with Engineering degree)
Marital Status: Divorced (Has three children and one grandchild but is estranged and unable to see them due to a nasty divorce.)
Sexual Orientation: Straight

Solid Democratic supporter, participated in the March for Science 2017.

Gender: Male
Age: 24
Race/Ethnicity: White/German
Religion: Not particularly religious but identifies as a cultural Christian
Hometown: Upper Arlington, OH
Current Location: Bothell, WA
Occupation: PhD student in Biochemistry, also employed as a Teaching Assistant and tutors SAT prep on the side
Relationship status/family: Oldest of three siblings, has a girlfriend who lives in an adjacent suburb
Sexual Orientation: Straight
Other: enjoys collecting plants and trying regional Chinese cuisines

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Ted Cruz GOP

Age: 23
Gender: Male
Race: White
Religion: Neopagan
Hometown: San Jose, CA
Current location: Omaha, Nebraska
Occupation: Mechanic
Education: Associate's Degree in Fire Science
Marital status: Single
Sexual orientation: Asexual
Other: Hates "Muzzies, Russkies, Commies"

Sounds even more like a r/The_Donald-frequenting alt-righter than the person you described as one


The creative director sounds like someone who voted straight-ticket Democratic in 2016 and will also do so this year.


Gender: Female
Age: 22
Race/Ethnicity: African-American
Religion: Protestant Christianity
Hometown: Cincinnatti, OH
Current Location: Seattle, WA
Occupation: Tutor and legal clerk
Education: College graduate
Marital Status + Sexual Orientation, Single, Straight.

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Did not vote for Trump in 2016, if only because they aren't particularly political

Age: 24
Gender: Female
Race/Ethnicity: Mixed race (WASP + Korean)
Religion: Evangelical Protestant
Education Level: Bachelors in STEM
Occupation: Research scientist
Hometown: Mulkiteo, WA
Current Location: Seattle, WA
Relationship status: dating a PhD candidate who she met in college
Other: has less-than-pleasant memories of a Black Lives Matter protest in a campus library

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Loyal Democrat, supported Bernie in the primary and Hillary in the general.

Age: 78
Gender: Male
Race/Ethnicity: White (English/Irish)
Religion: Lapsed Anglican
Marital Status: Married (Three Children/Five Grandchildren
Occupation: Musician/Retired History Teacher
Education: Graduated from University of Liverpool with degree in History
Hometown: Liverpool, England
Current Location: Liverpool, England

Other: Played drums in touring rock band in youth at the Cavern Club and toured Europe several times. Never achieved any commercial success but was a close personal friend of the Beatles (who he shared a stage with several times) and continued to play Wedding gigs and other professional functions along with an occasional tour while on school holiday for many years.  

Mildly political, support has wavered between Labour and LibDems throughout the years. Voted Remain in 2016

Age: 48
Gender: Female
Race/Ethnicity: White/WASP
Religion: ex-Mormon
Marital Status: Single
Occupation: IT support at Microsoft
Education: Bachelors
Hometown: Provo, UT
Current Location: Bothell, WA
Other: volunteers at a children's hospital on Thursdays

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#nevertrump Republican, voted for Kasich in the primary and McMullian in the general. Voting Democrat this fall out of anger at Trump's trade war.

Age: 63
Gender: Male
Race/Ethnicity: White (German/Norwegian)
Marital Status: Married, one daughter
Religion: Raised Lutheran, currently not religious but dabbled in alternative spirituality
Occupation: Freelance Journalist/Musician/Adjunct Journalism professor at University of Wisconsin
Hometown: Racine, Wisconsin
Education Level: BA in Journalism from the University of Wisconsin
Current Location: Madison, Wisconsin
Other: Is a vegan, dabbled in conspiracy theories, contributes to various health and fringe political sites.

Either voted for Jill Stein or wrote in Bernie in 2016.

Loyal Democrat to the end. Voted for every single Democratic Presidential candidate from '28 to '16. Was particularly enthused to vote for Hillary, was first one to arrive at her polling place. Vehemently despises Trump. Strong Billie Sutton supporter, canvasses for him around town in her wheelchair.

Age: 96
Gender: Female
Race/Ethnicity: Black
Marital Status: Divorced, 3 sons
Religion: formerly Evangelical Protestant, now Rastafari
Occupation: Retired coal miner
Hometown: Welch, West Virginia
Education Level: Junior high
Current Location: Welch, West Virginia
Other: Zealously listens to Talkline with Hoppy Kercheval, loves Jamaican food, practices yoga with senior group at local church every weekend, occasionally goes fly-fishing

Gradually switched from Independent to loyal Democrat during the 20th century. Voted straight-ticket Democratic in 2016.



Age: 27
Gender: Male
Race/Ethnicity: White/Italian + 1/8 Lebanese
Marital Status: Married and expecting twins
Religion: Devout Roman Catholic
Occupation: Chemistry Lab Tech + Research Assistant
Hometown: San Diego, CA
Current Location: Pierce County, WA
Education Level: BS in Biochemistry
Other: Enjoys long-distance running, oldest of three siblings, avoids caffeine.

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Would've been a Rockerfeller Republican back in the day, but is now a Dem-leaning independent. A consummate anti-Trump progressive globalist. Voted straight-ticket Democratic in 2016, probably also supported Obama and Gore in previous election cycles.

Gender: Male
Race: White
Ethnicity: Lebanese Arab
Age: Early 50s
Religion: Christian
Occupation: Primary care physician
Education: MD
Family: Married with two daughters, father was a dairy farmer
Sexual orientation: Straight
Hometown: Yakima, WA
Current location: Sunnyside, WA
Other: lived in Michigan during twenties, enjoys long-distance running

[Kamala's side hoe]

It's obvious some of y'all do not read the issues section
 Pass

Or check to see if someone’s already posted about the person you were going to post about.

There’s no way Thunder98 was responding to your hypothetical 23 year old voter if they mentioned 2000 and 2004... The person you posted either voted for Hillary or Stein in the 2016 general election but definitely supported Bernie in the primaries.

AFAIK Catholic and Orthodox Arabs are equally Dem as Muslim Arabs, while Protestant Arabs are GOP-leaning.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2016/10/24/despite-rhetoric-trump-backed-some-arab-american-muslims/92670020/

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Gender: male
Race: white
Background: Irish
Age: 39
Religion: areligious, but not necessarily atheist
Occupation: high school math teacher, cross country coach
Education: Master's
Family: married, no kids
Sexual orientation: straight
Hometown: Grand Rapids, MI
Current location: Denver, NC
Other: says the word "potentially" a lot, loves Rage Against the Machine

Right-leaning swing voter

Above: Hawkish centrist 2016 Hillary voter


Gender: Female
Age: 33
Race/Ethnicity: South Asian/Tamil
Religion: Apatheist (raised Hindu)
Family: Cohabiting with a white neuroscience postdoc, mother of two Siberian Huskies
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Veterinarian
Education: Bachelors from private liberal arts school, DVM from UC Davis
Hometown: born and raised in Kuala Lumpur up to age 8, grew up in Coeur D'Alene ID and Sammamish WA
Current location: Santa Cruz, CA
Issues: gender equality, mental health awareness, conservation, illegal immigration
Other: listens to country and folk music, avid outdoor rock climber

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Aside from the New Jersey nurse and the SF Bay Area alt-righter, every fictional voter I've posted in this thread thus far has been loosely based on one or more real people I've met IRL.

This is a real person I don't personally know who's Internet famous. Let's see if anyone can figure out who they are.

Gender: Male
Age: Early-30s
Hometown: Abidjan, Cote D'Ivoire
Current location: Nashville, TN
Race/ethnicity: Black/Francophone West African
Religion: Raised Muslim
Relationship status: Single
Occupation: Attending physician
Education: MD + residency, attended community college at some point
Other: Really likes socks

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Buzzfeed-style social liberal. Voted for Bernie in the 2016 primaries, but either Stein or Abstain in the general.

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Another Internet celebrity.

Age: Late 30s to Early 40s
Gender: Male
Sexual orientation: Straight
Relationship Status: Married to a woman who outearns him, has 2 daughters
Occupation: Middle school teacher
Education: Masters in Education, BA before that
Hometown: Somewhere in North Carolina
Current Location: Chicago, IL

[Kamala's side hoe]

Gender: Male
Age: Early-30s
Hometown: Abidjan, Cote D'Ivoire
Current location: Nashville, TN
Race/ethnicity: Black/Francophone West African
Religion: Raised Muslim
Relationship status: Single
Occupation: Attending physician
Education: MD + residency, attended community college at some point
Other: Really likes socks

Age: Late 30s to Early 40s
Gender: Male
Sexual orientation: Straight
Relationship Status: Married to a woman who outearns him, has 2 daughters
Occupation: Middle school teacher
Education: Masters in Education, BA before that
Hometown: Somewhere in North Carolina
Current Location: Chicago, IL

Lets Talk Politics: How Different Sides Approach the Same Issues | Co-authored by Habib Fanny and Matthew Bates




Habib Fanny: How do you explain voting for Biden in one sentence?

The only other viable choice is Trump, an undignified, unstable, unworthy, unfit buffoon, unmoored from any semblance of decency, corrosive to the rule of law, and whose only saving grace is that he is too indolent and incompetent to be as malevolent as he would like to be.

Matthew Bates: What are the main reasons parents decide to send their children to private school instead of public school?

Every few years, the Catholic schools around here (Chicago) ask parents this very question… why did they choose Catholic school? These are their answers, in order of frequency:

1. Safety. This is, by far, the #1 reason people abandon the public school system. It’s just not safe for their children.
2. Smaller class sizes/more individualized student attention.
3. More family-friendly atmosphere/better “community” feel to the school.
4. No “teaching to the test” like at public schools.
5. Religion/the religious part of the curriculum. Notable that this is a distant fifth place reason for choosing Catholic schools.
6. Proximity to their home or job.

Not on that list, but another reason I know some parents have brought their children to Catholic school:
* To avoid having their child labelled as “special education” by the public schools.

And, if the survey were done this year, I’m positive a popular reason would be:
* The Catholic schools are actually open for in-person learning, while the public schools are all online.

[Kamala's side hoe]

Gender: Female
Age: 74
Race: Asian
Hometown: Tainan, Taiwan
Location: Chesterfield, VA
Religion: Southern Baptist (Very devout)
Relationship status: Married
Education: High School
Income: 30,000$/yr
Occupation: Retired (Formerly a business owner)
Interests: Cooking, Gardening, Crab fishing, Going to yard sales, traveling.

Long-time Republican, possibly turned Independent. May have voted for Obama and/or Hillary, depends on her level of political engagement, when she came to the US, and the nature of her interactions with her family, friends, and neighbors. Would be a socially conservative DPP voter in Taiwan.


Gender: Male
Age: 30s
Race/Ethnicity: Latino/Dominican
Hometown: Santo Domingo, DR but moved to New Jersey as a teenager
Location: Tigard, OR
Religion: Roman Catholic
Relationship status: Married with school-age kids
Education: Associate Degree
Income: $80,000/yr
Occupation: Manufacturing management
Other: Has flirted with veganism and plant-centered diets

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Gender: Female
Race: White
Sexual Orientation: Heterosexual
Location: Milwaukee, WI
Hometown: Sheboygan, WI
Age: 80
Religion: Devout Roman Catholic
Relationship Status: Divorced with 3 adult children
Education: PhD
Occupation: Professor
Income: $250,000/year
Other Interests: The environment/nature, Catholic theology, traveling the world

Hardcore republican.

I would’ve thought they were a lifelong Democrat.

Compassionate fool: Millennial/iGen Berniecrat college student. Registered as a Democrat to vote for Sanders in the 2020 primaries.


Gender: Male
Race/Ethnicity: White/mixed European
Sexual orientation: Heterosexual
Age: late 20s
Religion: devout Roman Catholic
Hometown: Everett, WA
Current Location: Los Angeles, CA
Relationship: married, no kids yet
Education: PhD in a social science
Occupation: postdoctoral researcher
Hobbies/interests: maps, pie, religion, electoral politics

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Based on an irl person. No prizes for guessing who it is.

Gender: Male
Race: Mixed (Asian and White)
Sexual Orientation: Heterosexual
Location: Los Angeles, California (West Hills)
Hometown: London, UK
Age: 29
Religion: Agnostic
Relationship Status: Single
Education: BA in Political Science
Occupation: Unemployed, does odd jobs on occasion
Income: Less than $10,000 a year. His family makes about $150,000 a year
Interests: Politics, cars, fitness, fashion, dating, video games, fantasy fiction/movies.

Sounds like a real gentleman, I imagine he knows how to rock a V-neck and a pair of Aviators. Think he would be a Trump-Hawkins voter.

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I swear I’ve seen this one before. NDP-Liberal swing voter.

This person is partly based on a celebrity who had their autobiography adapted into a TV show. Anyone wanna guess who?

Age: 40ish
Hometown: Chongqing, China but immigrated to the US at age 9
Current location: Harris County, TX
Race/Ethnicity: Asian/Chinese
Religion: Agnostic
Sexual orientation: Straight
Relationship status: Married with school-age children
Occupation: IT consultant and freelance substitute teacher
Education: Masters, did Teach for America after undergrad
Interests: rap music (particularly Notorious B.I.G. and Nas), basketball, apple pie, steakhouses

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The only match I could find for "TV show based on an autobiography by a Chinese American" is Fresh Off the Boat (Eddie Huang). I'm not convinced.
As for politics, this guy is a solid liberal Democrat but probably doesn't appreciate the woke Twitter set and/or the 'wealth tax & defund the police' crowd.

Real-life Eddie Huang seems very much like a “defund the police” type to me, although I’m not sure how he feels about a wealth tax. IIRC his father owned and operated a steakhouse in the Orlando area when he was a teenager.

I swear I’ve seen this one before. NDP-Liberal swing voter.

It's a repost, last time I posted it the respondent ignored that he was Canadian.

Yeah, I remembering answering that guy before. Don’t remember if I was the first one.

/skip

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Mung Beans's last one is quite interesting. I think she is rather conservative from a philosophical/cultural point of view, but her disconnect from pop culture also means she is not very updated on the social media culture wars and stuff. Presumably vaguely left-leaning on economics but nothing too specific. Votes consistently Democratic out of a sense that Republicans are unserious kooks.

Yeah I can't see that person as anything but a passive Democrat. Your retired ob-gyn is either a Democrat or a left-leaning independent.

Gender: Female
Age: Late 40s to Early 50s
Race/ancestry: Asian (Filipina)
Sexual orientation: Straight
Relationship status/family: Married, has a daughter in college
Hometown: Quezon City, Philippines
Current location: Beaverton, OR
Education: High school in PH + culinary accreditation in the US
Occupation: Chef at a nursing home + informal small business catering
Household income: 50-70k/year
Religion: Nominally Roman Catholic
Other: likes beta fish and pomeranians

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This one is based on someone I know.

Gender: Female
Age: 21
Ethnicity: Malayali
Sexual Orientation: Heterosexual
Residence: Boston, MA
Hometown: Thiruvananthapuram, India
Religion: Protestant
Relationship Status: Single
Profession: Undergraduate student
Education: En route to BS in Biology, pre-med
Interests: Biology, traditional Indian dance, literature, politics
Other: fluent in English and Malayalam, speaks some Spanish, has a leadership position in her sorority, also has some involvement with the protestant chapel community on campus

If she moved to Metro Boston at an early age and grew up there, she's most likely a Buttigieg/Warren/Sanders-type Democrat, but could conceivably be a PQG-type "moderate" Republican as well. Christian Indian Americans are more R and more culturally assimilationist than other Indian religious subgroups.

She might still be a Warren/Buttigieg-type Dem or a (non-QAnon) Republican if she's an international student, but I feel like the chances of her voting third party are much lower.


This person is a mashup of a few people I personally know and a Youtuber.

Age: around 30
Gender: female
Race (ethnicity): Asian (Chinese)
Sexual Orientation: Straight
Hometown: Guangzhou, China- immigrated to the US at age 8
Current location: Los Angeles, CA
Religion: unaffiliated/agnostic, but raised Evangelical Protestant for a bit
Relationship status: in a long-term relationship (partner is Asian)
Occupation: Receptionist + freelance tarot card reader + freelance actress/dancer
Education: Bachelors degree
Interests: Tiktok, blogging, choreography, anime series featuring dogs, AI, sweetened caffeinated beverages containing tapioca pearls
Other: quirky and proud

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Moderately liberal Democrat, would’ve supported Sanders-Biden in the last 2 Dem primaries if they cared to vote in them.

Age: mid 30s
Gender: female
Race/ethncity: Latina/2nd gen Mexican
Sexual orientation: straight
Relationship status: Married with 3 kids
Current location: Sunnyside, WA
Occupation: Nurse practitioner at a farmworkers’ clinic
Household income: 5 digits
Other: goes to the gym at 5:30 with her elderly immigrant parents most days. Fluently bilingual in English and Spanish