# Where you live, and for whom you're voting **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 25, 2004, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-you-live-and-for-whom-youre-voting/246937 "2004-05-25T04:00:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Dusty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a183cd/32.png) [@Dusty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dusty)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2004, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-you-live-and-for-whom-youre-voting/246937/101 "2004-05-27T02:19:19Z")
Maine - Kerry ---
**Author:** ![ErinPuff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dbc845/32.png) [@ErinPuff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ErinPuff)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2004, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-you-live-and-for-whom-youre-voting/246937/102 "2004-05-27T02:37:04Z")
Pennsylvania, Kerry. ---
**Author:** ![vanilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f19dbf/32.png) [@vanilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vanilla)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2004, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-you-live-and-for-whom-youre-voting/246937/103 "2004-05-27T03:25:21Z")
Ohio-Dean ---
**Author:** ![Tamarin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bc79bd/32.png) [@Tamarin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamarin)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2004, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-you-live-and-for-whom-youre-voting/246937/104 "2004-05-27T04:46:59Z")
> [@Tinkertoy](#): > > I’m in shock 3 Idahoans voting a democrat (including me). THE END IS NIGH! 4 if you count my husband! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Scribble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scribble/32/3317_2.png) [@Scribble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scribble)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2004, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-you-live-and-for-whom-youre-voting/246937/105 "2004-05-27T12:47:30Z")
Central Ohio–Kerry. ---
**Author:** ![cichlidiot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5f9b8f/32.png) [@cichlidiot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cichlidiot)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2004, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-you-live-and-for-whom-youre-voting/246937/106 "2004-05-27T13:18:11Z")
Washington - Kerry ---
**Author:** ![lawoot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/35a633/32.png) [@lawoot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lawoot)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2004, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-you-live-and-for-whom-youre-voting/246937/107 "2004-05-31T01:11:14Z")
Washington State - Kerry ---
**Author:** ![galen\_ubal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/galen_ubal/32/4440_2.png) [@galen\_ubal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/galen_ubal)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2004, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-you-live-and-for-whom-youre-voting/246937/108 "2004-05-31T01:32:45Z")
Florida - Kerry ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2004, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-you-live-and-for-whom-youre-voting/246937/109 "2004-05-31T01:48:47Z")
Born in Ohio, moved to Indiana in 2001. I’ve voted in every presidential election since 1980, but always for a third-party candidate (Libertarians through '96, Nader in 2000). I’ll probably continue the trend this year. Incidentally, anyone who’s just recently stumbled across this message board and is thinking Kerry’s due for a landslide victory would do well to consider the lessons of the [1936 _Literary Digest_ poll](http://edcallahan.com/web110/lectures/litdigest.htm). ---
**Author:** ![Paladud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Paladud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paladud)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2004, 7:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-you-live-and-for-whom-youre-voting/246937/110 "2004-05-31T07:31:49Z")
Born in Russia. Currently living in California. Voting for Gary Nolan. ---
**Author:** ![An\_Arky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/87869e/32.png) [@An\_Arky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Arky)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2004, 10:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-you-live-and-for-whom-youre-voting/246937/111 "2004-05-31T10:54:01Z")
Born and raised in Arkansas, living in Arlington, VA for the better part of 15 years… Kerry. ---
**Author:** ![SpasmicChaos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a698b9/32.png) [@SpasmicChaos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpasmicChaos)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2004, 11:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-you-live-and-for-whom-youre-voting/246937/112 "2004-05-31T11:06:11Z")
Oklahoma Kerry ---
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2004, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-you-live-and-for-whom-youre-voting/246937/113 "2004-05-31T14:26:13Z")
Another Seattlite - Kerry, unless someone better comes along. ---
**Author:** ![Aeschines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aeschines/32/16251_2.png) [@Aeschines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aeschines)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2004, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-you-live-and-for-whom-youre-voting/246937/114 "2004-05-31T14:28:40Z")
Indiana/Kerry. Natch! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![plankter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ba0ec/32.png) [@plankter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/plankter)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2004, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-you-live-and-for-whom-youre-voting/246937/115 "2004-05-31T20:50:03Z")
California Kerry ---
**Author:** ![SanibelMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@SanibelMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanibelMan)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2004, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-you-live-and-for-whom-youre-voting/246937/116 "2004-05-31T21:43:21Z")
Living in Missouri, but voting absentee in my home state of Florida for Kerry. (College students can maintain residency in their home states, even if they live full-time in another state, so long as they’re going to school full-time.) ---
**Author:** ![jormundgondir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/dfb087/32.png) [@jormundgondir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jormundgondir)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2004, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-you-live-and-for-whom-youre-voting/246937/117 "2004-06-01T03:33:45Z")
Northern California: Peter Camejo (swoon) if Kerry has already handily swept California by 6:30 pm, otherwise Kerry. So I guess count me as Kerry. ---
**Author:** ![JonScribe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/3be4f8/32.png) [@JonScribe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JonScribe)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2004, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-you-live-and-for-whom-youre-voting/246937/118 "2004-06-01T04:54:35Z")
> [@Sternvogel](#): > > Incidentally, anyone who’s just recently stumbled across this message board and is thinking Kerry’s due for a landslide victory would do well to consider the lessons of the [1936 _Literary Digest_ poll](http://edcallahan.com/web110/lectures/litdigest.htm). I doubt anybody on these boards would confuse this with a legitimate poll. What’s more telling, I think, is the lack of participation by the board’s more conservative members ---
**Author:** ![Gadarene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Gadarene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gadarene)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2004, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-you-live-and-for-whom-youre-voting/246937/119 "2004-06-01T05:26:32Z")
I live in D.C. and am voting by Oregon’s absentee ballot. I don’t like any of the candidates, but I don’t like Bush the most – I’m voting for Kerry. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2004, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-you-live-and-for-whom-youre-voting/246937/120 "2004-06-01T13:19:07Z")
> [@](#): > > I doubt anybody on these boards would confuse this with a legitimate poll. What’s more telling, I think, is the lack of participation by the board’s more conservative members No, this is not a “legitimate poll”. Rather, it _is_ legitimate; but it was posted knowing that most SDMB posters seem to me to have Liberal viewpoints and Conservatives are in the minority. Therefore, the results are meaningless for use as a guide to the country as a whole. I wanted to find out if the views of Dopers matched what _appears_ to be the general sentiment of the country: Whether The South and the Bible Belt dopers are more likely to vote for Bush, and the coasts are more likely to vote for Kerry. The results so far have indicated that there are Dopers in the former area who want to vote for Kerry, and voters in the latter places who plan to vote for Bush. There’s really not enough information to see a meaningful trend. And as I said, I expected Kerry to be chosen more often my SDMB members. But the responses for Kerry have been so overwhelming that I’ve stopped counting the votes. Is it because of the SDMB’s “Liberal slant”? Is it because Conservative Dopers are just not responding? If anyone else wants to keep a running total, that’s fine; but with so many Kerry votes here, it seems pointless. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-you-live-and-for-whom-youre-voting/246937.md?page=5)