On the eve of the New Hampshire primaries, here's the US political candidate you're most likely to support:
So Bernie Sanders has the most support, followed somewhat closely by Hillary Clinton -- both of whom are trailed far behind by all GOP candidates. (With Donald Trump, somewhat surprisingly to me, the most preferred Republican candidate by NWN readers!) I'm also surprised that neither of the Libertarian candidates I included in the survey, Gary Johnson and John McAfeee, rated a single vote.
Question is -- how typical are these results for fans of VR in general or Second Life in particular?
My quick take: New World Notes is probably the most read SL-related blog on the Internet, though not necessarily drawing a representative sample of SLers. If it was, we'd probably see more support for Republican and Libertarian candidates.(Indeed, Second Life has often been compared to the utopia in Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged, a right-libertarian reference point.) Also factor in the fact that some 60% of SL users are non-Americans, most of whom are in Europe, where someone like Sanders is much more viable on their country's own political spectrum.
Speaking about virtual reality enthusiasts in general, anecdotally in my experience they skew fairly right-libertarian, just as many or most in Silicon Valley do -- that "liberal on social issues, conservative on economics ones" thing.
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Posted by: Ilsa Hesse | Monday, February 08, 2016 at 10:05 PM
I have to admit, in your survey i voted for Trump. I don't live in the US, but i would love to see how the world would respond to such a disaster....
Posted by: Dargo | Tuesday, February 09, 2016 at 01:28 AM
A big factor might be that if people outside the US voted, then chances are that outside of Clinton, Sanders and Trump the other candidates are more or less completely unknown.
Clinton has her name and reputation, Sanders is a surprise because he is the most understandable for Europeans and Trump is sort of like a forum troll coming to RL ... and media everywhere loves such people and the headlines they generate.
(there might also be complete lack of understanding why anyone would vote for him ... not that Europe would not have its own share of such people in politics ... and fear of the chaos he might cause. Bush Jr. and what he did to international politics is not yet forgotten and Republicans in general are often seen as evil incarnate outside of the US anyway)
Posted by: Rin | Tuesday, February 09, 2016 at 07:32 AM
"I have to admit, in your survey i voted for Trump. I don't live in the US, but i would love to see how the world would respond to such a disaster..."
Some people want to watch the world burn!
Posted by: Wagner James Au | Tuesday, February 09, 2016 at 09:07 AM
Trump is needed he is necessary. I voted for Trump in your poll and I intend to vote for him in real life. That he is receiving such negative vitriol online, and even here , tells me he has you lefties scared. That's a good thing.
P.s.the world is already burning, please remove your rose colored glasses.
Posted by: tiptoe resident | Tuesday, February 09, 2016 at 01:21 PM
Trump does give voice to the dispossessed Middle Class, Tiptoe. Which is a bit sad; they need a spokesman better than this evil clown.
I'm not sure, however, that it's just "Lefties" like me who should be scared. I'm actually more scared of Theocrat General Cruz.
Trump's own cronies in the Plutocracy should be scared of him. He's a Populist, and I really think he puts wealth second to power: as he should, power being more delicious than money, any time. He'd love to make heads roll.
A President Trump might make heads roll on Wall Street and in the Lobbyist hells of DC. That would be a silver lining in an otherwise jingoistic and racist cloud that the pumped-up Donald is.
Posted by: Iggy | Tuesday, February 09, 2016 at 05:27 PM
I'm pretty sure when you open up US Presidential canidate voting to non-americans, it will usually swing to the left, won't it?
Posted by: Adeon Writer | Tuesday, February 09, 2016 at 10:53 PM
So 18 members of the new Nazi party, though one of them is just a foreigner looking to enjoy some chaos.
Trump copies Hitler not only in message, but also in tone, speaking style, and sometimes even hand gestures.
He's really just a reality TV star who figured he could spin his hype machine to some major attention, looked for some easy hook to follow, and copied Adolf. I don't actually believe Trump believes most of what he puts forth... but if you open a pandora's box, you might not be able to contain it... A lesson the GOP themselves know all too well from when the Koch's engineered the Tea Party movement only to have it so horribly spin out of their control.
Posted by: pussycat catnap | Monday, February 22, 2016 at 01:46 AM