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Election 2024: New poll speculates who TV personalities are voting for
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Election 2024: New poll speculates who TV personalities are voting for

Happy Election Day! If you can call it that. Perhaps “Minimally Stressful Election Day” is the best we can wish for each other. Either way, there’s no getting away from the fact that it’s Tuesday US Election Daythe last day Americans can vote in the presidential race between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump. But that wasn’t the only race Americans voted on recently. YouGov conducted a survey to ask a slightly less important question: Which candidate would your favorite fictional TV characters vote for?

This survey was conducted online in late October among 1,167 US adults, YouGov reports. According to the survey methodology, “Respondents were selected from YouGov’s enrollment panel to be representative of US adult citizens. The sample was weighted by sex, age, race, education, turnout in the 2020 election and presidential vote, basic party identification, and current voter registration status.” Respondents were asked about their familiarity with certain characters and then among those most familiar with which candidate they thought they would vote for each character.

YouGov found that among its cast of characters, the most likely to be perceived as Harris/Walz voters were women: Liz Lemon, Leslie Knope, Carrie Bradshaw, Phoebe Buffay, Elaine Benes, Barbie and Olivia Pope, among others. The opposite is true from Trump’s side, where the characters perceived to vote for the Republican ticket are mostly male: Archie Bunker, Hank Hill, Biff Tannen, Don Draper, John Rambo, Tony Soprano, etc. A handful of characters (also mostly male) came right in the middle, perceived by fans almost equally as Trump or Harris voters. It includes Deadpool, Steve Rogers (Captain America), Bruce Wayne (Batman), Indiana Jones, Marty McFly and Michael Scott from The office.

Poll results show that Harris voters and Trump voters overwhelmingly believed these characters would vote the same way they did. The survey also asked about the representation of Democrats and Republicans on television: 27 percent of respondents agreed that Republicans are underrepresented, while only 11 percent think Democrats are. Additionally, Republicans are more likely to feel they are underrepresented on television, with 50% of Republican respondents believing their party is underrepresented, compared to 23% of Democrats who believe the same about their own party. If you still haven’t had enough of looking at survey data, you can check it out for yourself Here.