Describe a Dukakis-Gritz voter

[Make America Grumpy Again]

Who's a voter who would've voted for Dukakis and Gritz? How else would they have voted?

[MATTROSE94]

Maybe a blue collar worker from West Virginia, Ohio, or Wisconsin who didn’t like Bill Clinton’s position on trade issues. BTW, my grandfather wrote in Bo Gritz in 1988. Generally speaking, my grandfather (who was born in 1921 and died about six months before the 2000 election) voted for the most hardline segregationist or populist candidate in all his eligible Presidential elections with the exception of Thomas Dewey in 1944, Richard Nixon in 1960 and 1972, Jimmy Carter in 1976 and 1980, and Bill Clinton in 1992 and 1996. He became a staunch segregationist during his time in the US army and developed populist leanings due to his lower economic status. Had my grandfather still been alive today, he would have been a big QAnon and MAGA supporter.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

A Mormon who had some personal or esoteric reason to really dislike George HW Bush.

[Make America Grumpy Again]

Maybe a blue collar worker from West Virginia, Ohio, or Wisconsin who didn’t like Bill Clinton’s position on trade issues. BTW, my grandfather wrote in Bo Gritz in 1988. Generally speaking, my grandfather (who was born in 1921 and died about six months before the 2000 election) voted for the most hardline segregationist or populist candidate in all his eligible Presidential elections with the exception of Thomas Dewey in 1944, Richard Nixon in 1960 and 1972, Jimmy Carter in 1976 and 1980, and Bill Clinton in 1992 and 1996. He became a staunch segregationist during his time in the US army and developed populist leanings due to his lower economic status. Had my grandfather still been alive today, he would have been a big QAnon and MAGA supporter.

Was he a Dewey-Thurmond voter? Also I doubt there were many Dewey-Wallace voters, so that's interesting in itself. I assume he voted for Eisenhower but did he vote for Reagan? In that case, a Dewey-Thurmond-Wallace-Mondale voter would've been absolutely incredible. How do you think he would've voted in 2000 or 2004, since both candidates in the later were elitists pretending to be populists.  

[MATTROSE94]

Maybe a blue collar worker from West Virginia, Ohio, or Wisconsin who didn’t like Bill Clinton’s position on trade issues. BTW, my grandfather wrote in Bo Gritz in 1988. Generally speaking, my grandfather (who was born in 1921 and died about six months before the 2000 election) voted for the most hardline segregationist or populist candidate in all his eligible Presidential elections with the exception of Thomas Dewey in 1944, Richard Nixon in 1960 and 1972, Jimmy Carter in 1976 and 1980, and Bill Clinton in 1992 and 1996. He became a staunch segregationist during his time in the US army and developed populist leanings due to his lower economic status. Had my grandfather still been alive today, he would have been a big QAnon and MAGA supporter.

Was he a Dewey-Thurmond voter? Also I doubt there were many Dewey-Wallace voters, so that's interesting in itself. I assume he voted for Eisenhower but did he vote for Reagan? In that case, a Dewey-Thurmond-Wallace-Mondale voter would've been absolutely incredible. How do you think he would've voted in 2000 or 2004, since both candidates in the later were elitists pretending to be populists.  

My grandfather supported Thomas Dewey in 1944, but voted for Strom Thurmond in 1948. He also did not vote for Dwight Eisenhower in 1952 and 1956 (he wrote in Douglas MacArthur in 1952 and voted for T. Coleman Andrews in 1956) and also voted for Ronald Reagan in 1984 only (he supported Jimmy Carter in 1980). Probably his least favorite election was 1960, as both John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon were pro-civil rights and there were no overt segregationists or populists on the ballot in New Jersey in that election. Basically that election was kind of a coin flip for him.

I am pretty sure that my grandfather would have voted for Al Gore in 2000, (reluctantly for) John Kerry in 2004, Chuck Baldwin in 2008, Virgil Goode in 2012, and enthusiastically for Donald Trump in 2016, 2020, and 2024.

[TransfemmeGoreVidal]

Greek-American militia member.

[If my soul was made of stone]

A far-right militia member whose day job was in agriculture, who was upset with the Reagan administration's inadequate response to the ongoing drought in 1988 and held a grudge against Bush for his foreign policy as a strict isolationist.

[GregTheGreat657]

Conservative Mormon farmer who voted Dukakis in 1988 due to the Farm Crisis. He was dissatisfied with Bush in 1992 for crime/the Rodney King riots and voted for Gritz as a protest vote.