Describe a Bush '00, Kerry '04, Obama '08, Romney '12, Clinton '16, Trump '20 voter?

[SN2903]

An independent who leans conservative who did not like the Iraq War and was unsure about Trump in 16 but likes his policies.

[AGA]

Massachusetts independent.

[MillennialModerate]

Someone that almost always, (almost, 2008) goes against the popular wisdom

[Born to Slay. Forced to Work.]

An E N L I G H T E N E D  C E N T R I S T

[Bootes Void]

- a female/non white police officer
- a non white person in the military
- A bush staffer/loyalist who secretly hated Bush but came to came to embrace Trump later on
- somebody who votes based on who they think would be better for the stock market
- a middle class suburbanite who hated the protests
- somebody who votes for whoever is the better looking candidate(subjective)

[ultraviolet]

Someone that almost always, (almost, 2008) goes against the popular wisdom

And either 2000 or 2016

[Crumpets]

I have an aunt whose voting history I suspect is similar to this, so here's what I'm going with:

Boomer woman, white, irreligious, independent, pro-pot, pro-choice, non-interventionist, lives in a working-class neighborhood of a large city.

2000 - liked Bush's focus on domestic policy and wanted a break from the sleaze of the Clinton administration by electing a good ol' family man with a chuckle and a wink.

2004 - voted Kerry in opposition to the Iraq War and the growing surveillance state post-Patriot Act

2008 - voted Obama for basically the same reason she voted for Kerry, and also added economic considerations as the stock market collapsed and unemployment began to rise

2012 - fell out of love with the "hope and change" ideal as the economic recovery remains slow. She's started to become more of a typical Republican and watches Fox News and gets a lot of her info from Facebook.

2016 - would otherwise be a Trump voter except that her daughter is married to a Latino man and convinces her to vote for Clinton because of the growing racism they're facing. She's still not enough of a Republican to buy into the crazy Clinton conspiracies, but holds her nose to keep Trump out of the White House.

2020 - Continues her rightward trend, is now basically a standard Republican. Joe Biden might still win her over if he governs very much to the center and maybe gets some big consensus policy proposals through, but I wouldn't hold my breath.

[SnowLabrador]

I have an aunt whose voting history I suspect is similar to this, so here's what I'm going with:

Boomer woman, white, irreligious, independent, pro-pot, pro-choice, non-interventionist, lives in a working-class neighborhood of a large city.

2000 - liked Bush's focus on domestic policy and wanted a break from the sleaze of the Clinton administration by electing a good ol' family man with a chuckle and a wink.

2004 - voted Kerry in opposition to the Iraq War and the growing surveillance state post-Patriot Act

2008 - voted Obama for basically the same reason she voted for Kerry, and also added economic considerations as the stock market collapsed and unemployment began to rise

2012 - fell out of love with the "hope and change" ideal as the economic recovery remains slow. She's started to become more of a typical Republican and watches Fox News and gets a lot of her info from Facebook.

2016 - would otherwise be a Trump voter except that her daughter is married to a Latino man and convinces her to vote for Clinton because of the growing racism they're facing. She's still not enough of a Republican to buy into the crazy Clinton conspiracies, but holds her nose to keep Trump out of the White House.

2020 - Continues her rightward trend, is now basically a standard Republican. Joe Biden might still win her over if he governs very much to the center and maybe gets some big consensus policy proposals through, but I wouldn't hold my breath.

You're overthinking it. Probably just someone who votes randomly.