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Could be read two ways: "I'll bet you this. If Mary Poppins and Dick Tracy vote on Election Day, they'll vote for John Kerry."
But who will get Lex Luthor's vote?
I do wonder about my interpretations of characters' political views. I always thought Scully was a Republican and Mulder didn't vote. In Smallville, I'm guessing almost everyone's registered Republican, though I wouldn't be surprised if Lex thinks he would have voted for Perot and McCain if given the chance. What do you all think? Is Martha a closet pinko? (Skip obvious Lana joke.)
But who will get Lex Luthor's vote?
I do wonder about my interpretations of characters' political views. I always thought Scully was a Republican and Mulder didn't vote. In Smallville, I'm guessing almost everyone's registered Republican, though I wouldn't be surprised if Lex thinks he would have voted for Perot and McCain if given the chance. What do you all think? Is Martha a closet pinko? (Skip obvious Lana joke.)
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I may be wrong here, though. Hmm.
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Yeah, I'd have to agree with you there.
And I've always thought of the Republican party as a very..."survival of the fittest" party. Thus I think the Luthors would feel right at home there.
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It's a scary place, I tell ya.
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I don't know. It's unlikely that I'll cast a single vote for anyone elected. But hey, the first time I ever voted, it was against Ollie North, and Virginia *didn't* elect him, so that's something.
And eh, I'm being all repeating myself. I don't know if farmers are Democrats in Kansas. I think they should be, but what I think and what people do live in separate worlds.
I'm hopeful - hey, even Virginia's polling as "slightly Bush" nowadays! That's sooper hopeful!
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i sometimes wonder whether the writers and we, of course, do not tilt the characters to the left...but yes, i think the kents might just vote republican for their supposed "american values"...then again, that same moral BS might drive Lex to the left...
I just read a wonderful article in a German magazine where they interviewed this physician in the heartland who talked about the way he agrees with so much of thre republican's platform yet the war alone will make him vote for kerry...have elections always been this single issue outweighs everything???
hee heee... butting in at random
*mops OJ off monitor*
Re: hee heee... butting in at random
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Martha is voting for Kerry (abortion, also the draft), but she's not going to tell Jonathan because she doesn't want to get him all riled up.
Lex might well give money to everybody, then vote Libertarian. He might (at one point, anyway) have supported the Dems just to distinguish himself from Lionel, who is a *major* Republican contributor.
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I also think Lex is going to vote for somebody who might win. He's wealthy enough that he might actually support Kerry, not being forced to survive on a mere million a year, and I agree that Not His Father's GOP is a big consideration.
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Hmm. I never thought of that. I would hope that if that were true that Martha would be both against abortion and pro-choice, but it's hard to say. The Kents have a well-developed sense of the importance of personal privacy, especially post-Clark, but I don't know if that would translate to pro-choice views.
btw I love your Real Genius icon! I just got that on DVD a couple of weeks ago. *love*
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From what I remember, though, I got the impression that there weren't many, if any. I'll double check on that, though.
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She's still not just real crazy about the Democrats, who strike her as pretty loony and not too good at getting things done, but she's far too practical to throw a vote away on some harebrained third-party candidate just to make a statement. That kind of thing is so...*Mulder.*
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Mulder would absolutely vote in a completely useless way, if he voted at all. I can see him denouncing participation as a sham and a delusion, complete with rant about the manipulability of electronic voting machines.
Of course, this raises the question whether they can even vote at all -- aren't they on the run waiting for the world to end? If they vote under assumed names, is that wrong?
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I volunteer you for that story.
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I could see Lex as a Southern Democrat.