Describe a Paul - Obama 2012 Voter

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[darklordoftech]

Someone who voted for Paul in the 2012 primaries and then voted for Obama in the general? Maybe someone who's passionate about civil liberties and lives in a state with open primaries.

[Some of My Best Friends Are Gay]

Some white millennial dude who doesn't actually care about policies and just supports whoever is considered "cool" by popular culture.

[darklordoftech]

Someone who voted for Paul in the 2012 primaries and then voted for Obama in the general? Maybe someone who's passionate about civil liberties and lives in a state with open primaries.

Yes Paul in the primary

In that case, someone who's passionate about civil liberties, opposes the War on Drugs, and/or is anti-war, and lives in a state with open primaries.

[I Will Not Be Wrong]

Kelly Clarkson.

[mgop]

junkie

[100% pro-life no matter what]

I could see this person being a Bernie-Trump voter in 2016.  Yes, the four have nothing to do with each other ideologically, but this person isn't super ideological either- probably more anti-establishment and liking the "cool" candidate.  Probably a young, white male.

[Mike Thick]

Single-issue "stop the wars" voter with a lesser-of-two-evils mentality

[mgop]

Single-issue "stop the wars" voter with a lesser-of-two-evils mentality

Wtf "stop the wars", obama with arab spring started like 7 wars in 2011.

[Plankton5165]

Ron Paul or Paul Ryan?

[Obama-Biden Democrat]

Obama had lost his coolness by 2012.

[BabyAlligator]

Obama had lost his coolness by 2012.

Isn't he still beloved my most americans today ?

[VPH]

Justin Raimondo did this. He was an old-right-style libertarian and an ardent Ron Paul supporter in 2008 and 2012. However, in 2012 he voted Obama as a protest against Mitt Romney.
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/the-conservative-vote-a-symposium/

Besides Raimondo, probably a young small-town guy in New Hampshire or Maine who felt that Romney was not good on civil liberties and reluctantly voted for Obama.

[John Forbes Kerrygold 🧈]

I went to an art school in Chicago and a lot of my classmates were like this. You couldn't go anywhere in 2011-2012 without seeing "Ron Paul Revolution" signs and stickers on campus. For a lot of people, I think it was trendy. For others, I think it was "war bad, weed good." They ended up either not voting or voting for Obama in a "lesser of two evils" thing. They then spent 2016 and 2020 being the loudest, most toxic Bernie bros possible.

[ModerateRadical]

I did this. Came from a strongly-Republican family, but was starting to get disenchanted with the GOP (it was their stance on gay marriage that rubbed me the wrong way). Wasn't a huge Ron Paul fan, but I didn't like Mitt Romney at all. It was the first presidential election cycle where I paid attention to politics and could vote, and there was no Democratic primary, so I voted in the GOP primary for the hell of it. VA's ballot-access laws were strict enough that the only 2 candidates that made it on the ballot were Ron Paul and Romney. Voted not-Romney in the primary, and not-Romney in the fall.

[VPH]

I went to an art school in Chicago and a lot of my classmates were like this. You couldn't go anywhere in 2011-2012 without seeing "Ron Paul Revolution" signs and stickers on campus. For a lot of people, I think it was trendy. For others, I think it was "war bad, weed good." They ended up either not voting or voting for Obama in a "lesser of two evils" thing. They then spent 2016 and 2020 being the loudest, most toxic Bernie bros possible.

I figured Ron Paul fans were a prominent Tulsi 2020 faction

[John Forbes Kerrygold 🧈]

I went to an art school in Chicago and a lot of my classmates were like this. You couldn't go anywhere in 2011-2012 without seeing "Ron Paul Revolution" signs and stickers on campus. For a lot of people, I think it was trendy. For others, I think it was "war bad, weed good." They ended up either not voting or voting for Obama in a "lesser of two evils" thing. They then spent 2016 and 2020 being the loudest, most toxic Bernie bros possible.

I figured Ron Paul fans were a prominent Tulsi 2020 faction

Lots of friends of mine were "Bernie OR Tulsi or bust" voters in 2020.

[Utah Neolib]

Giant Ron Paul fan who hates Romney and votes for Obama as a protest

[wimp]

20 something who gets all their opinions from Reddit. Voted for Bernie in 2016 and 2020, and may or may not have voted for Trump in 2016 depending on what subreddits they were subscribed to at the them.