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« on: November 16, 2022, 04:25:09 AM »

The person is born in 1952.

1972 George McGovern (D)
1976 Jimmy Carter (D)
1980 Ronald Reagan (R)
1984 Ronald Reagan (R)
1988 George Bush (R)
1992 George Bush (R)
1996 Bill Clinton (D)
2000 George W. Bush (R)
2004 George W. Bush (R)
2008 Barack Obama (D)
2012 Mitt Romney (R)
2016 Gary Johnson (L)
2020 Joe Biden (D)
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« Reply #1 on: November 16, 2022, 06:19:22 AM »

Someone from a Dem background who had a bad economic time of it during the Carter years and became a moderate Republican or independent.
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« Reply #2 on: November 17, 2022, 03:14:13 PM »

Ex-hippie from a middle class liberal background who started out as a moderate anti-war Dem but started leaning Republican after becoming wealthy in the Reagan years. Voted for Clinton thinking that he’d done a good job, Obama in 08 because he got disgusted by the Republicans and then Romney in 2012 due to his healthcare costs going up because of Obamacare, Johnson in 2016 because he hated Hillary and Trump but easily Biden in 2020.
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« Reply #3 on: November 17, 2022, 06:35:32 PM »

Overall, somebody who just really based their vote on how the economy is doing (the exception to this rule being 1992).A liberal college student in 1972, stayed liberal in 1976. Gradually became more conservative, didn’t like the whole Iran fiasco and the stagflation, and broke for Reagan in 1980. Pleasantly surprised by the recovering economy, he more enthusiastically supporter led Reagan in 1984 (1980 had been more of a protest vote against Carter than a vote for Reagan), and continued shifting rightward, particularly on kitchen table economic issues. Still very happy with the economy, he went for Bush in 1988. Much more hesitantly - given the bad economy and Bush’s “No new taxes” fiasco - he chose to stick with Bush in 1992. By 1996, however, he saw the good economy and flipped to Clinton. Still a conservative at heart, he returned to the GOP fold and went for Dubya twice, before voting for Obama because of the Great Depression. 2012 was an all right but not great time for the economy, and concerned about Obamacare (and, if socially conservative, the DADT repeal), he decided to vote for Mitt Romney - who he also felt reassured by because of his stellar business career. However, he was always much more of an establishment Republican, and he was very hesitant to back Donald Trump, opposing him in the primary and ultimately choosing to go third party in 2016 after Access Hollywood (if he lived out west, the only region of the country where McMullin made the ballot, the fact that he picked Johnson over McMullin may indicate he’s more moderate/libertarian than conservative on social issues). During Trump’s presidency, this observer’s opinion of him only fell (since this guy is a standard economic Republican, Trump being against free trade may be one factor in this). By this time an old man (at least 65 or 66), he was also worried about COVID. Thus, he chose to vote for Biden in 2020.
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