# Pick a fictional character and tell us how they vote. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 20, 2012, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-a-fictional-character-and-tell-us-how-they-vote/632078 "2012-08-20T17:50:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2012, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-a-fictional-character-and-tell-us-how-they-vote/632078/41 "2012-08-21T15:16:58Z")
> [@Rodgers01](#): > > I predict everyone at _Cheers_ would have voted Republican except for Diane, Frasier, and Lillith. I imagine Coach walking into the voting booth, forgetting what he is supposed to be there for, then walking back out saying something about not having to pee after all. ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2012, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-a-fictional-character-and-tell-us-how-they-vote/632078/42 "2012-08-21T15:17:09Z")
Superman is tough. Does he vote, and thusly appear to be endorsing a candidate? Or does he abstain, despite wanting to encourage folks to vote? Clark Kent of course is Democrat. He has issues with “illegal aliens” after all. Oliver Queen? Democrat, easy. Hal Jordan? Republican, lapsed. Aquaman and Manhunter abstain (though J’onn might vote just for the “experience” of it.) ---
**Author:** ![Whiteknight](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whiteknight/32/4962_2.png) [@Whiteknight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whiteknight)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2012, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-a-fictional-character-and-tell-us-how-they-vote/632078/43 "2012-08-21T15:53:07Z")
Eddard Stark votes Democrat. He’s always talking about climate change. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2012, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-a-fictional-character-and-tell-us-how-they-vote/632078/44 "2012-08-21T15:57:36Z")
Ebeneezer Scrooge- Definitely a Wall Street Republican. Big Bang Theory- Penny is a Republican, being from Nebraska and probably in the NRA Howard is a Democrat Leonard votes Green Sheldon doesn’t vote. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2012, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-a-fictional-character-and-tell-us-how-they-vote/632078/45 "2012-08-21T16:00:02Z")
Any in an Almodóvar movie: “vote? what’s that?” The immense majority don’t even know where their ID is (required in Spain); those placed in Times Bygone live in an era with no vote (and most are underage anyway). ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2012, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-a-fictional-character-and-tell-us-how-they-vote/632078/46 "2012-08-21T16:14:20Z")
Dave Robicheau: democrat Clete Purcel: would get drunk, forget why he was at the polling place, and beat the shit out of everybody present. Jason Bourne: would vote 17 times under different identities, then kill the winner. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Peyote\_Coyote](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/5f8ce5/32.png) [@The\_Peyote\_Coyote](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Peyote_Coyote)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2012, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-a-fictional-character-and-tell-us-how-they-vote/632078/47 "2012-08-21T16:26:10Z")
Vote? Conan the Barbarian takes over the country via revolution and declares himself king. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2012, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-a-fictional-character-and-tell-us-how-they-vote/632078/48 "2012-08-21T17:23:50Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > I agree that he wouldn’t take the time to vote; that’s why I suggested the super-pac option. > > I’m not sure about Bruce Wayne. On the one hand, Batman’s an asshole who thinks his mission is all that happens. On the other hand, he sees his mission as making Gotham City better in general, and he might see publicly voting (as Bruce Wayne) as setting a good example. Bruce Wayne is sometimes depicted as a civic leader (to make Gotham City better by non-beating-uppy methods), and sometimes as a useless fop (to better hide the secret identity). In the former case, he’d make a show of voting; in the latter case, he’d make a show of not bothering. ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim_r.mortiss/32/142_2.png) [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_R.Mortiss)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2012, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-a-fictional-character-and-tell-us-how-they-vote/632078/49 "2012-08-21T18:04:56Z")
> [@Rodgers01](#): > > I predict everyone at _Cheers_ would have voted Republican except for Diane, Frasier, and Lillith. I know this thread is about the characters, not the actors, but I still have to share this story. I recently saw Kelsey Grammer interviewed by Bill O’Reilly. Kelsey and John Ratzenberger are hard core conservatives. He said they had some rousing chats with uber-liberals Woody Harrelson and Ted Danson on the set. That would have been fun to watch! ---
**Author:** ![LawMonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@LawMonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LawMonkey)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2012, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-a-fictional-character-and-tell-us-how-they-vote/632078/50 "2012-08-21T18:09:22Z")
> [@Love\_Rhombus](#): > > Superman is tough. Does he vote, and thusly appear to be endorsing a candidate? Or does he abstain, despite wanting to encourage folks to vote? Clark Kent of course is Democrat. He has issues with “illegal aliens” after all. I think you just stumbled onto it: Superman doesn’t vote, because it would amount to stuffing the ballot box after Clark Kent voted. ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2012, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-a-fictional-character-and-tell-us-how-they-vote/632078/51 "2012-08-21T19:03:35Z")
Stan Smith from \*\*American Dad \*\*would vote for Reagan and Jesus, in that order. ---
**Author:** ![Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/f04885/32.png) [@Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qin_Shi_Huangdi)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2012, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-a-fictional-character-and-tell-us-how-they-vote/632078/52 "2012-08-21T19:07:08Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > Ebeneezer Scrooge- Definitely a Wall Street Republican. In Victorian terms probably a Palmerstonian Liberal for economic reasons but opposed to the Chartists and similar radicals. Miss Havisham’s probably a High Tory. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2012, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-a-fictional-character-and-tell-us-how-they-vote/632078/53 "2012-08-21T19:17:36Z")
> [@DiggitCamara](#): > > [off topic]Don’t. Just this weekend I saw two awful L&O SVU re-runs which were simply awful. Jack McCoy is not a character on SVU. He’s a character on the original L & W, which at its worst was better than most episodes of the other two. > [@Alessan](#): > > _How I Met Your Mother:_ Ted and Lilly are Democrats, Marshall votes Green Party, Barney is a Ron Paul Republican, and Robin is of course not a U.S. citizen (but would probably vote conservative if she were). Robin is a naturalized US citizen. I assume that someone at INS lost a bet so we had to take her. > [@Love\_Rhombus](#): > > Superman is tough. Does he vote, and thusly appear to be endorsing a candidate? Or does he abstain, despite wanting to encourage folks to vote? Clark Kent of course is Democrat. He has issues with “illegal aliens” after all. Superman clearly doesn’t vote, as he does so as Clark. ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2012, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-a-fictional-character-and-tell-us-how-they-vote/632078/54 "2012-08-21T21:48:23Z")
> [@Rodgers01](#): > > I predict everyone at _Cheers_ would have voted Republican except for Diane, Frasier, and Lillith. Nah, everyone else is pretty blue-collar in a blue state. (Well, Norm has a white-collar job, but he’s not his own boss.) They’re probably almost all Democrats. Maybe Sam and Frasier are Republicans–and Woody might be, he’s Lutheran Church Missouri Synod. ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2012, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-a-fictional-character-and-tell-us-how-they-vote/632078/55 "2012-08-21T22:06:39Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > Jason Bourne: would vote 17 times under different identities, then kill the winner. Book Bourne or film Bourne? I think Kinsey Millhone is probably a Democrat. ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2012, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-a-fictional-character-and-tell-us-how-they-vote/632078/56 "2012-08-21T23:59:28Z")
> [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](#): > > Snake Plissken and Jack Burton would both vote Libertarian. Snake would be more on the anarchist side of Libertarianism, then. > [@tomcar](#): > > Darth Vader and Palpatine both vote Republican. Same with Montgomery Burns 🙂 Can’t tell if you’re joking, but C. Montgomery Burns _is_ canonically a member of the Springfield Republican Party. So is “Rich Texan” (Yeeehaw!), Dr. Hibbert, Krusty, Sideshow Bob, Rainier “I am not Arnold” Wolfcastle, Fat Tony (I find that one hard to believe), the usual suspects like Flanders/Lovejoys, and Count Dracula. > [@Whiteknight](#): > > Eddard Stark votes Democrat. He’s always talking about climate change. Anti-Global warming. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2012, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-a-fictional-character-and-tell-us-how-they-vote/632078/57 "2012-08-22T00:29:18Z")
Snake Plissken would just tell you where you can stuff your ballot. ---
**Author:** ![Dioptre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/278dde/32.png) [@Dioptre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dioptre)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2012, 9:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-a-fictional-character-and-tell-us-how-they-vote/632078/58 "2012-08-22T09:44:16Z")
Wolverine: Doesn’t have genuine identity documents, doesn’t vote (would vote in Canadian elections if he did) Professor X: Votes for whichever candidate is most truthful (he knows) ---
**Author:** ![Jormungandr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@Jormungandr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jormungandr)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2012, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-a-fictional-character-and-tell-us-how-they-vote/632078/59 "2012-08-22T13:11:50Z")
> [@RikWriter](#): > > Damn, posted before I was finished. > Now movies, that’s more complicated. > I’d think John McClain would vote Republican, maybe Harry Callahan as well. > The Dude from The Big Lebowski would vote for Ron Paul, if he could remember to register to vote…but of course, he couldn’t remember. > I think Indiana Jones would have voted Democrat, because he was there for FDR’s administration and had a bad experience with Eisenhower… I remember someone describing Callahan as somewhat close to libertarian. While he’d likely vote Republican, this quote from “Magnum Force” seem to show he could go either way. \*\* Lieutenant Briggs\*\*: You’re a good cop, Harry. You had a chance to join my team, but you decided to stick with the system. **Harry Callahan** : Briggs, I hate the goddamn system! But until someone comes along with changes that make sense, I’ll stick with it. ---
**Author:** ![Agent\_Foxtrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc29f/32.png) [@Agent\_Foxtrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agent_Foxtrot)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2012, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-a-fictional-character-and-tell-us-how-they-vote/632078/60 "2012-08-22T15:53:23Z")
Ned Flanders is a Christian Democrat. While not a socialist per se, he is the personification of “Love Thy Neighbor” and fully believes that we as a society need to do right by the underprivileged. Dana Scully, Republican. Fox Mulder, Democrat. Here’s a tough one: anyone want to take a guess on Solid Snake? He feels like he was used and abandoned by the government, but surely his strong feelings about peace and nuclear non-proliferation must account for something? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-a-fictional-character-and-tell-us-how-they-vote/632078.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-a-fictional-character-and-tell-us-how-they-vote/632078.md?page=4)