Who Would the Collins Family Vote For?

[David]

Watching the very entertaining Hillary & Barack Show
got me wondering~~
who would residents of Collinwood/Collinsport vote for?
Hillary?
Barack?
McCain?

Cast your ballots, please!
(but no political arguing~~this is for fun.
It's about the political leanings of the DS characters)

David

[retzev]

It's a pretty deep shade of blue up there in New England, I don't see McCain getting their vote.

[Lydia]

Umm...blue is Democrat and red is Republican, right?  I always have trouble with this because something inside my head says it should be the other way around, so I always have to think: "Counterintuitive, counterintuitive," and someday I'm going to get it straightened out in my head, and then I'll always have to think: "Intuitive, intuitive."

Anyway: there are pockets of redness (if I have this right) in New England, so I don't think McCain can be counted out among the Collinses.  My first thought was, "Of course Elizabeth would go for Hillary," but then I decided that Liz doesn't necessarily generalize from her own situation to the rest of the world, so I changed my mind.

Just now I suddenly thought of "that place in Brazil", and imagined Liz trying to think of the name Barack and coming up with "that man in the election."

[Mysterious Benefactor]

When it comes to presidential elections, Maine has often swung Republican. 

I don't know about most of the DS characters, but I definitely see Roger as a life-long Republican. And considering his sexist attitudes when it comes to women in a position of power, I strongly suspect the idea of Hillary Clinton in the White House would horrify him to his very core.

[Bob_the_Bartender]

The presidential/political preferences of the members of the Collins family and of the residents of Collinsport have been discussed here before.

Are the Collinses traditional, monied Country Club Republicans or are they affluent/activist Limousine Liberals?   (Quein sabe?  It's hard to tell.)

And, what of Burke Devlin, a poor, local boy, who left town (albeit, unhappily) to eventually become an extremely wealthy and successful businessman?  Was Burke a working class, early life Democrat (or Reagan Democrat?), who, once he acquired great wealth in his thirties, became a fiscal conservative?  It's difficult to say.   

[David]

You are right on RE: Roger, MB. I'd suspect the old boy is a tad racist too.
Ditto Barnabas & Prof. Stokes.
I see  them all going with McCain.

I can see strong women like Liz, Julia, Carolyn Angelique, & Mrs. Johnson going with Hilary.
Same with blue collar dudes Joe & Willie.

Maggie, being the daughter of an artist, no doubt fancies herself quite the progressive liberal. She's with Obama.
I'd imagine that, had Megan & Philip Todd lived, they'd be with Obama as well.

David

[loril54]

Barnabas I would think would be for McCain. Julia would probobly be for Hillary.

But Barnabas would find it hard to vote. Just think that he would think that people
today are not like Jefferson, Washington, and Adams. Who he might have actually met.

[Mysterious Benefactor]

Barnabas wouldn't actually be able to vote because he's not a citizen. 

Come to think of it, why didn't the Immigration Services ever come after him? Unless he was paying someone off, it's not like he had any way of proving where he supposedly lived in England so that he could get a visa, much less keep extending one. 

I know, we're not supposed to think about any of that, but it all suddenly struck me when I realized he's not a citizen...


As for Stokes, I can't say I see him as racist. He's always seemed pretty progressive to me. I mean, how many other people would take a man-made monster into their homes? 

[David]

 

And Vicki, BTW, is not eligible to vote this year, having been bumped off in 1796!

David

[Lydia]

Oh, come on, surely they don't discriminate against the dead in Collinsport, of all places!

[Miss_Winthrop]

I can see Willie going for Hillary Clinton. I don't know why but I think of the commercial by Jack Nicholson and the movie a Few Good Men saying something about there is something sexy about saluting a woman.

[Gerard]

Considering the problems the family had with the various Trasks through several generations, if Pat Robertson ran again I don't think they'd vote for him.

Gerard

[Patti Feinberg]

Oh, come on, surely they don't discriminate against the dead in Collinsport, of all places!

Oh Lydia....thank you so much for this chortle:)

Stokes I think would vote Obama.

Good call David about the Todd's; I can see a big sign on their store-front window!

I think Elizabeth would vote for Hillary and Roger for McCain.

Hmm...just wondering about Mrs. Johnson.....
Patti

[GooberCollins]

I can see a clean split: Elizabeth voting for McCain, Roger for Hillary, and Carolyn for Obama. Don't know why. I also think, if he was old enough, David would vote for whoever he thought was the weakest candidate so he could overthrow them and take over the world.

[IluvBarnabas]

Roger would vote for McCain, I have no doubt of that. As MB pointed out, Roger had problems with women being in positions of authority. And I think Barnabas would too, him having a 18th-century mindset.

Elizabeth, Carolyn and Julia I think would vote for Hilary. Vicki I'm not so sure about.

I can see Professor Stokes on Obama's side. He does strike me as a man open to process too.