LAST AUTO NEWS – DO YOU VOTE LIKE YOUR CAR?
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In the final hours afore Election Day, the candidates are aggressive for every vote. That agency allure ambivalent voters..
They ability be able to save some time by blockage out the affectionate of cars voters are driving. According to a contempo CNW Research business survey, what humans drive tends to appearance how they vote.
Obama Should Give Up on These Guys
Some of the after-effects play anon into red state/blue accompaniment stereotypes. For example, auto barter drivers are 3.5 times added acceptable to be Republicans than Democrats.
Compact SUV drivers are about appropriately acceptable to accord to either affair — 21 percent of them are Republicans, 26 percent are Democrats, and the actual are Independents or ambivalent –but the backroom trend absolutely Republican as the SUVs get bigger. In fact, ample SUV owners are added than alert as acceptable to be Republicans as they are to be Democrats. That may explain why Sarah Palin drives a full-size Chevrolet Tahoe.
McCain Needs to Think Outside the Econobox
While Republicans boom about in trucks and SUVs, what are Democrats driving? According to the survey, affordable baby cars are added acceptable to be apprenticed by Democrats than Republicans. About 43 percent of humans who drive account cars, such as the Honda Fit and Chevy Aveo, say they’re Democrats. Only 14 percent of those account car owners analyze as Republicans.
Near-luxury car owners are aswell added acceptable to be Democrats, and the admeasurement of minivan owners that analyze as Democrats (29 percent) is about alert the admeasurement of minivan owners who say they’re Republicans (18 percent). Where Democrats absolutely boss are wagons. No amount the admeasurement or amount point, a beyond allotment of wagon owners analyze as Democrats than Republicans.
And the greatest indicator you’re a Democrat? Nearly 56 percent of amalgam drivers are Democrats, while a simple 14 percent affirmation to be Republicans. Case in point? Hilary Clinton has a Mercury Mariner Hybrid. While John McCain’s abiding of 13 cars includes a Prius, the applicant says he bought it for his daughter-who reportedly voted for John Kerry in 2004.
Swing Votes
An absorbing award in the analysis is that voters are added akin than they are different. In 10 of the survey’s 29 car categories, the aberration in the percentages of owners who analyze as Republicans or Democrats is baby — almost 5 percent. Those categories with the aboriginal differences tend to be the a lot of accepted segments of the market, too. Midsize cars, apparently, are something we can all accede on. Interestingly, the differences abatement at the top of the bazaar as well. Exotic cars like Ferrari and Lamborghinis accept almost according numbers of left- and right-leaning owners.
So maybe avenue acclamation are bigger predictors of political outcomes than a parking lot account at your polling place. But no amount what your backroom are, or what affectionate of car you have, the important affair is that you alpha it up, drive to the acclamation (or if you’re Joe Biden, yield Amtrak) and accomplish your articulation heard.
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