Here's something that might be fun and does have to do with Politics, but it's kind of OT.

Most recent MC hasn't voted since a mock election in high school. He doesn't see himself connected to the larger world around him. He will. Local and state politics will have a personal, life-threatening impact on him.

ETA: Wow. That came out like a plug. For a book that's not finished yet. Sorry.

Michaela would probably agonize a bit over the choices, but would ultimately vote Democrat.

Pamela wouldn't vote, or if she did, she would probably be one of those people who puts "Mickey Mouse" as a write-in candidate or something. Or she would vote for whoever Michaela voted for, in an effort to impress her.

My MC's are too young to vote.

She'll probably vote Eisenhower for re-election, even though his threats to use nuclear weapons to end the police action in Korea scared the dickens out of her. Thought why on earth doesn't he do something about that dreadful McCarthy fellow (the nerve, chasing her brother and half her friends out of the country with those dratted subpoenas! And her father wonders why on earth a woman would care about politics.)

eta: I misread the OP - if we're playing with the current election, she'd be all in for Clinton, mostly because she thinks it's her last chance to see a woman elected President in her lifetime, and she's seen enough history to realize why that's important. Plus ca change and all that.

My MC is just on the edge of voting age and she would vote for Bernie. She's kind of that share everything, we'll figure out how to pay for it idealist. A woman president is cool and all that, but it's not like it needs to happen right.now.because.

Funny, how it's easy to figure out who each of my characters would vote for. Neat exercise, thanks!

My MCs are mostly dead, so....

Haggis said:

My MCs are mostly dead, so....

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Just move the plot to Chicago, and they can still vote!

Current MC wouldn't vote for anyone, because the idea of electing a leader doesn't sit real well with a prince of the blood royal. Could get a peasant running the show.

Don said:

Just move the plot to Chicago, and they can still vote!

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Good point, Don.

Millard Fillmore. It's set in 1850.

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Don said:

Just move the plot to Chicago, and they can still vote!

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Ha ha, Chicago doesn't need the plot there just to count their votes.

Haggis said:

Good point, Don.

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Well, it was bound to happen eventually.

JK, Don. It happened once before.

Fascinating thread, historygeek402!

Hmm, Em lives in 1933, but to put your question to her, well, she'd have to think long and hard. She's a hard worker, self sufficient, and dedicated to her old hotel, so the the great "generosity" of Sanders probably wouldn't appeal to her. Em's devout and devoted to her humble little mountain church, but Cruz is too ..., too ..., too much so, and she has the feeling she'll be made to feel guilty for being a strong, independent woman. Trump terrifies her and she feels even though she's isolated in the mountains she could make decisions better than he. She knows little of Kasich, but at least he's not silly. Clinton has elements that bother Em such as accusations of lying and corruption. Clinton is a strong woman, and in the mountains women must be strong. But would she make a good president? Em hopes so.

Em checks the box for Clinton, folds the ballot, and slips it into the slot in the box.

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Good point, Don.

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robeiae said:

Well, it was bound to happen eventually.

JK, Don. It happened once before.

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It's always Don o'Clock somewhere.

My MC/narrator was raised in Ohio in the late 1800s, which was a time and place where whole generations were raised Republican. At the time, if you were an Ohioan who grew up to be Democrat, someone had done something wrong. My MC does not view himself as a deep political thinker (although he's smarter than he thinks he is). So, in the 2016 primaries, he would have voted for Kasich, because he's an Ohio Republican. It really would have been that simple.

Not knowing for sure who the nominees will be for the general election, I can't say for sure who he'd vote for in November. If Kasich isn't the Republican nominee (and he's almost certainly not), it will probably be a lot harder for me to figure out.

In the time of actual history, he would have voted for William McKinley (also an Ohio Republican) in both of his elections. Still, he probably would have been interested by William Jennings Bryan, mostly because of the support of the Grainge movement, and might have broken with his party to vote for him against Taft in 1908. (Yes, I do know my early 20th-century election history. Why do you ask?)

EDIT: Haha, I remember my history, but I momentarily forgot my MC's age. He would not have been old enough to vote in 1896, so his first presidential election would have been McKinley vs. Bryan in 1900. From that point on, what I wrote above still applies.

Years ago, I decided thanks to AW's help, that I wasn't really cut out to be writer. My most recent MC however probably wouldn't agree with me on the issues facing the US, and would have been voting for Fiorina or Clinton, and calling me lazy and not feminist enough.

She might have been a little bit angry.

My MC is too young to vote.

Vote?

The mightiest sword gets all the votes where my character is from.

It's kind of fun to see where other characters in my WIP fall on the political scale, too. I have an ensemble cast of teens, so they're as hyperbolic as it gets. I've got one guy who just wants to see it all burn. He'd probably vote for Trump.

Same boat as DPA, so I will go with my last WIP abandoned years ago.

Mother of the tribe (so to speak), would have reached age of majority in the vicinity of Cornwall, Ontario. American election? Would not vote. Latest Canadian election? Perhaps Trudeau though I'd suspect her voting history would show her going against the region's history of being a loyalist hotspot.

1891: J.D. Snetsinger (Loss for Laurier's Liberals)
1896: J.D. Snetsinger (Win for Laurier's Liberals)
1900: Ambrose Mulhern (Loss for Laurier's Liberals)
1904: Robert Smith (Loss for Laurier's Liberals)
1908: Robert Smith (Win for Laurier's Liberals)
1911: G.I. Gogo (Loss for Laurier's Liberals)
1917: (?) J. McMartin (Borden's Unionists)

She died in the Spanish flu and therefore never participated in any more elections. Her two sons are something I have not traced all that particularly well.

The first son's children haven't been properly traced yet. The second son's children haven't completely been traced. But the second son did decide to become invested in the bush pilot industry in Edmonton and so had one adult child living in Edmonton's northside and would have reached the age of majority in 1946. In the last election, he would have remembered the October Crisis poorly and would have voted for the NDP.

1949: (?) HJM Ross (loss for MJ Coldwell's CCF)
1953: (?) A.F. MacDonald (loss for Louis St. Laurent's Liberals)
1957: (?) William Hawrelak (loss for Pearson's Liberals)
1958: J.D. Bracco (loss for Pearson's Liberals)
1962: John Decore (loss for Pearson's Liberals)
1963: Donald Brinton (loss for Pearson's Liberals)
1965: Nick Mosychuk (loss for Pearson's Liberals)
1968: Pat Shewchuk (loss for PE Trudeau's Liberals)
1972: Ashley Pachal (loss for Lewis' NDP)
1974: Bill Kobluk (loss for Lewis' NDP)
1979: Lynn Fogwill (loss for Broadbent's NDP)
1980: Jo Evans (loss for Broadbent's NDP)
1984: Muriel Stanley-Venne (loss for Broadbent's NDP)
1988: Ross Harvey (win for Broadbent's NDP)
1993: Ross Harvey (loss for Mclaughlin's NDP)
1997: Hana Razga (loss for McDonaugh's NDP)
2000: Ray Martin (loss for McDonaugh's NDP)
2004: Janina Strudwick (loss for Layton's NDP)

The rest of the characters were not defined well enough to get a good grasp of their history. The third child (daughter) of the grandson who lived in Edmonton continued to live in Edmonton for some years when she was an adult but it gets really sketchy on pinpointing dates. Perhaps 1976 to 1980. The problem with her was that she was not particularly involved in politics at the time.

The next generation is hazy.

The last generation (of which only one gets represented in the story) never gets to vote in Canadian politics.

My MCs?

Jeremy would vote for Bernie, Ash would vote for Hillary, and Jorey wouldn't know who to vote for because he's an alien and wouldn't be caught dead on Earth.

...Earth's a dangerous place, man.

Did you know we keep around 60,000 nuclear bombs!?

I've been trying to think of who my MC would vote for and I'm not really sure.

He's ex military, so he'd want someone strong on defense. He's left of center for social issues. He's pro law enforcement, yet dealt with a lot of corruption in law enforcement.

The problem is, he wouldn't like any of the candidates. He'd hate Trump, and not be a fan of either Cruz or Hillary. I think he'd respect Bernie, but not go for him. Kasich?

It's fun to live inside the head of a person you essentially invented. When I first thought this might be a vocation, I guess I didn't think clearly about how, after all, there are steps to the process that are not a priority for me. And this current election, my goodness all of our characters would be just as conflicted I would think, as we are, if they're smart.