DS0816
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« on: June 15, 2015, 08:27:50 PM » |
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Okay! It's time to consider the ones from the daytime soaps.
General Hospital's Luke Spencer
1968: Too stoned
1972: Still stoned
1976: He realized he wasn't registered to vote
1980: Didn't have the time as he was focused on Laura Webber
1984: Deliberately skips it
1988: Jesse Jackson in the primary; with Jackson not his party's nominee, Luke skips the general
1992: Bill Clinton
1996: Ralph Nader
2000: Ralph Nader
2004: Ralph Nader
2008: Barack Obama; he had enough of Nader being unviable
2012: Didn't vote; Luke had a bad year with alcohol and just wasn't in the mood to participate
The Young and the Restless' Victor Newman
1960: Richard Nixon
1964: Lyndon Johnson; figuring that Barry Goldwater is a complete disaster
1968: Richard Nixon
1972: Richard Nixon
1976: Gerald Ford
1980: Ronald Reagan
1984: Ronald Regan
1988: George Bush
1992: George Bush
1996: Bob Dole
2000: George W. Bush
2004: George W. Bush
2008: Barack Obama; figuring that John McCain's selection of Sarah Palin is utter madness and would not reflect well on his family and Newman Enterprises
2012: Mitt Romney; figuring that Romney is better but, after the "47 percent" speech he realizes his preferred party will lose once again
Days of Our Lives' Marlena Evans
1968: Hubert Humphrey
1972: Richard Nixon; due to his impending 49-state re-election
1976: Gerald Ford
1980: Ronald Reagan; figuring that the country wants to fire Jimmy Carter and this may be for the best
1984: Ronald Reagan; figuring that he done okay, the country seemed encouraged, and figured that Reagan should have a second term
1988: Michael Dukakis; she's turned off by how George Bush's campaign was managed by Lee Atwater and wonders if he's in league with Stefano DiMera
1992: Bill Clinton
1996: Bill Clinton; and her possession by Satan thankfully ended it time for Marlena to be able to participate
2000: Al Gore
2004: John Kerry
2008: Barack Obama
2012: Barack Obama
The Bold and the Beautiful's late Stephanie Forrester
1960: John Kennedy; the only candidate who doesn't carry her home state California during Stephanie's lifetime
1964: Lyndon Johnson; figuring that, although she generally prefer Republicans, agrees with Johnson that "in [her] guts, she knows that [Goldwater's] nuts"
1968: Richard Nixon
1972: Richard Nixon
1976: Gerald Ford
1980: Ronald Reagan
1984: Ronald Reagan
1988: George Bush
1992: Bill Clinton; normally a Republican, she doesn't find the Arkansas governor too intimidating
1996: Bill Clinton; feels that Clinton did okay
2000: Al Gore; is now comfortable with Democrats
2004: John Kerry
2008: Barack Obama
2012: Barack Obama; she dies in late-November 2012
* AND HERE IS ONE MORE FROM A SOAP NO LONGER ON THE AIR *
All My Children's Erica Kane
1968: Vietman is too troubling; Erica is too busy trying to launch her modeling career; and the polls in Pine Valley, Pennsylvania were awfully busy
1972: Well, neither President Richard Nixon or U.S. Sen. George McGovern were the type of men Erica Kane finds attractive…so there really wasn't any use
1976: She can't remember. (Or…she claims not to remember.) Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter were unusually attractive men in their own right. She recalls thinking Ford was more physically attractive, but Carter did have his charms. So, it's difficult for Erica Kane to remember who she voted for in 1976
1980: Ronald Reagan. Well, Reagan wasn't conventionally attractive in the eyes of Erica Kane. But he was very confident, had some wit, and Erica found that to be an attractive quality in the former actor and governor of California; and, besides, her late father Eric was a movie director and almost worked with Reagan…and that's good enough for her
1984: Ronald Reagan. She was never into Walter Mondale
1988: Michael Dukakis. George Bush wasn't her ideal of an attractive man. And he was married to that woman, Barbara, who kind of reminds Erica of her late mother Mona. And there were too many women who were like that that she encountered pretty regularly in Pine Valley, Pennsylvania. Michael Dukakis reminded Erica of some of the attractive men (nowhere near as attractive as she) who were gentlemanly and would be gentlemanly throughout their dates. So, it was the Massachusetts governor who won her vote in 1988
1992: Bill Clinton. Oh, Erica Kane is doing a spit-take over anyone feeling the need to ask that question. She meets Bill Clinton during his campaign and openly flirts with him in spite of the discomfort felt by Arkansas First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton.
1996: Bill Clinton. Of course!
2000: George W. Bush. Al Gore was nice. Pleasant looking. A gentleman. But there was something to W. that Erica Kane appreciative.
2004: George W. Bush. John Kerry reminded of her of the type of men from her past. And she didn't need to go back to remembering the men from her past.
2008: Barack Obama. John McCain was a senior citizen already. And had her mother, Mona Tyler, not died in 1994…Erica would have liked to have arranged a date between the two. Barack Obama was instant recognition by Erica as a winner. His looks. His charms. His personality. And Erica's daughter Bianca, already out and supported, sensed that Barack Obama would be an inclusive president of the United States…and told her mother that she was endorsing Obama for the nomination and, should he win the nomination, the general election. Bianca's endorsement was reinforcement for Erica
2012: Barack Obama. Compared to 2008, it was a tougher choice. Mitt Romney reminded Erica Kane of the men she used to find attractive. But, a lot has changed throughout the years for Erica, personally, and Mitt Romney was too much in the past. Erica wants to always be in the present. And daughter Bianca was so thrilled that President Obama endorsed marriage equality…it didn't take too longer for Erica to figure out that Obama had earned a second term
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