Who Do Warcraft Players Want As President?

I'm not sure how many electoral votes Azeroth has, but it could be a key battleground state.

Probably not worth a campaign stop

[beef curtains]

I'm not sure how many electoral votes Azeroth has, but it could be a key battleground state.

I think that Azerothian voter turnout will be extremely low.

My predicted exit poll results:
- 55% Ignored the voting booths & farmed HKs instead
- 25% Didn't make it to the voting booths because they were AFK in the starting area
- 15% Made it to the voting booth, but instead of going in & voting, they jumped onto its roof and spammed /dance over & over
- 5% Were too busy repeatedly spamming /bg with "every sucks by me" and "just let them win" to even realize there was an election going on

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[Clandestine_Blaze]

A sign of what's to come if Vanilla Ice ever tries to resurrect his career.

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[pwolf]

you forget though, 90% of the American WoW player base are under the age of 14.. They can't vote anyway.

Re:Probably not worth a campaign stop

[nschubach]

12?

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[pwolf]

they stopped playing cause they got jobs and are going to college.... no wait, you're right, my bad...

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[Kingrames]

I am reminded of the classic line. The best thing about high school girls is that the older you get, they all stay the same age.

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[elrous0]

Apparently not old enough to move out of their parents' basements.

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[Monsuco]

you forget though, 90% of the American WoW player base are under the age of 14.. They can't vote anyway.

Tell that to ACORN.

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[ucblockhead]

And the other 10% are chinese gold farmers.

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[Fluffeh]

Brilliant post! My kingdom for mod points today!

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[Jim_Maryland]

Under the Achievement system (think located in World Events) they have a "Vote for Thrall" entry. When you do this, you gain rep with the Horde.

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[Malevolyn]

Thrall WOULD make a good president, after all.

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[DurendalMac]

And even more constantly zombie bombed the booths, killing the NPCs and turning players.

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[DurendalMac]

Are you kidding? I'd be the guy zombie bombing. I can't tell you how many times I destroyed the Org bank, BMs, and AH.

Just about anyone except Fandral Staghelm

[SL Baur]

I could never vote for a hordie, and I suppose a one-on-one election between Staghelm and an Orc would make for an interesting choice. The last time the hordies raided Darnassus and I was in the area, I went up to the top of the tower and danced on Staghelm's corpse. I'm not overly fond of the boy king of SW City, but I do not think Kings usually like to stand for elections.

Unless there is a Draenei running, I will probably sit this one out.

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[Eleed]

I agree with you. Draenei would make a great leader, imho

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[Artuir]

You know, we used to eek out wins in Alterac Valley with that 15%. I quit for a year and come back to everone /dancing.

Figures!

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[Kral_Blbec]

Sad, but true. How do you expect them to pay the monthy fee if we dont let them get on welfare?!?! Its not like they have time to work.

reminds me of the bumper sticker I saw the other day.. "I'm a Republican because not everybody can be on welfare" I gotta get one of those.

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[I_Voter]

non-citizen Kral_Blbec wrote:
"I'm a Republican because not everybody can be on welfare"

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I'm with you brother! But I think there may have been some Republicans involved.

First it's $700 billion for mortgage giants and banks. Then its free low credit from the federal reserve.. Now look at what those sneaky Democrats plan to give to the poor and unproductive.

".. the administration is working to speed the distribution to automakers of $25 billion in factory retooling funds authorized by Congress la

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[aurispector]

In 1929, people lost everything because the banks went under.

Who employs people so they can take home a paycheck?

Where does the tax money come from?

What part of this don't you understand?

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[I_Voter]

I would tend to agree with all of it. My comments were just a satire on the previous posters comment about "all" registered Democrats favoring of welfare. I was just pointing out that the Republicans were now quite willing to give welfare to broke and unproductive economic entities.

I_Voter
A number of years ago, I typed out and published on the web, the following copyright expired article. Read it if you think that I oppose "democratic" government manipulation of the economy. It's been getting a lot o

Re:Tassadar!

[bar-agent]

Spawn more Democratic Overlords.

No battleground state

[KasperMeerts]

If Obama has 63% and McCain only 16%, then this is no battleground state. Obama would just own the place without any hiccups.

Also, I wonder why so little Priests voted on Obama and so little hunters on McCain? Is this because the number of people interviewed is way too low or is there any real causal relationship between your WoW character and your political affiliation.
And why on Earth is there a HUGE difference between Alliance and Horde.

Can anybody shed any light on my questions?

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[reikoshea]

Everyone knows that the horde is full of left wing nut jobs, DUH! -Level 70 Troll Rogue

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[Anonymous Coward]

And why on Earth is there a HUGE difference between Alliance and Horde.

Because only assholes play alliance.

I kid! I kid!

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[Scarletdown]

So, which side has the mavericks? (takes a drink).

Personally, I would write in a third party candidate: Lord Recluse. :)

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[Xiroth]

For the same reason that more people play Alliance than Horde - because the Horde are the 'bad guys', essentially. Republicans are reasonably accurately portrayed as seeing the world in a fairly black and white fashion - Americans and allies are good, opponents are bad, so help the good guys, smash the bad guys, call it a day and go home happy. Liberals, on the other hand, see things much more in terms of shades of grey - Americans and allies have a history of doing bad things at times, their opponents are

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[geekoid]

Actually it turns out to be becasue alliance has prettier toons.
This is why they added the pretty blood elf. Actually, Blizzard has a lot of interesting demographics they monitor and check.
I would love to be able to work with their player data and character data. There is a lot of data to carve up and a lot of suprising trends, from what I hear from me friends that work their.

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[geekoid]

Since the sample and methods look to be crap. I wouldn't put too much stock in the numbers.

You do pose an interesting question, but I would be suprised if there was a casual relationship between the two.

Bearded Mustachioed gnomes for Obama!

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[Fluffeh]

The type of player that plays a game to be the good guy smashing the "bad guys" without a second thought is likely to be the guy who votes for a president who does the same. Other players who see that not all the apparent "bad guys" are actually "bad guys" but rather might be a normal person that is portrayed as a "bad guy" by someone else play horde - and are willing to vote for a person who doesn't just point at shoot at the first thing he doesn't understand.

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[aliquis]

How do you gank someone on your own? You're that guy with 20+ accounts playing your own party on your machines? :D

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[mikael_j]

I believe the standard way to do solo gankings is as follows:

• Spend an ungodly amount of time raiding and playing battlegrounds to get the best gear possible.
• Enlist the help of your guildmates to further enhance your character.
• Use any means possible to temporarily boost your character further (once again, guildmates are a great source of magical enhancements).
• Go somewhere where there are few players from the other faction and that isn't a world PvP "hotspot" (so that they won't be ready to defend themselves

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[aliquis]

But doesn't gank mean "gang kill" or something?

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[mikael_j]

Nah, Ganking generally either means a group attack or someone attacking someone who is weaker and unprepared/unable to defend himself. Classic places where this takes place are "Ganklethorn Vale" and the Hillsbrad foothills since they both are contested zones and there are lots of little nooks and crannies to hide in (of course, there's always the classic "lvl 70 on epic mount chasing lower level playing on regular mount" game).

/Mikael

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[aliquis]

So it's even a wow-word and not general word?

WoW

[Anonymous Coward]

Yep, a bunch of folks who spend all their free time on an online video fantasy world game are a perfect example of how the election will go in America. The rest of the population spends all their time in front of a video fantasy world. In other words, the electorate is a bunch of uninformed couch potatoes who are voting based on their perceived strengths in a candidate: nothing based on past records or current platforms.

Our country deserves everything we're going to get.

Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm going

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[DerWulf]

You got your ass so far up your as it's actually your head again. Amazing, a doctor of somekind should take a look at you ...

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[The Living Fractal]

Because someone's past is always indicative of their future........

And because current platforms are always what the elected candidate ends up actually following......

I believe the old Slashdot saying applies here, slightly modified.

Welcome to America. You must be new here.

where are the outtakes?

[SeeSp0tRun]

I want to see the number of tries in stormwind where that one teenager couldn't get enough ganking on the naked Tauren warrior...

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[DarkProphet]

It was probably done on a private server.

Straight Horde ticket

[Nefarious Wheel]

Hey, Thrall ain't perfect, but he's a warlord and he'll soon put an end to the war in Crossroads. He's exactly the sort of murderous bastard we need in troubled times like this. And have you seen the floating castle that just showed up outside Thunder Bluff? That's obviously the result of 8 years of failed Alliance rule. You want four more years of that?

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[flyingsquid]

Hey, Thrall ain't perfect, but he's a warlord and he'll soon put an end to the war in Crossroads. He's exactly the sort of murderous bastard we need in troubled times like this. And have you seen the floating castle that just showed up outside Thunder Bluff? That's obviously the result of 8 years of failed Alliance rule. You want four more years of that?

I just don't think I can vote for a green-skin for president. Plus, I keep hearing these rumors that Thrall is secretly a Muslim.

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[acheron12]

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Easy...

[Anonymous Coward]

LEEROY JENKINS!

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[rfuilrez]

Let's Do this shit!

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[Doc, the Weasel]

My vote is for Leeroy because he doesn't get stuck in the gridlock of analysis that paralyzes our leaders. While they are discussing which of their special interests (tanks and healers) will get what earmarks, Leeroy is taking action.

Honest question:

[blind biker]

Is there a demografic less likely to vote, than WoW players?

Charged question:

[duckInferno]

Is there a demographic less worthy to vote, than people who ride judgemental bandwagons?

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[isBandGeek()]

None, except the disenfranchised. Because the stereotypical WoW player plays 24/7 and thus has no time to vote.

THIS!

[Cyno01]

Servers'll be down for half that day, plenty of time to go vote AND stock up on cheetos.

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[archen]

Who needs to leave the house? I just voted using absentee ballot. No way I'm standing in line to vote.

It also gives me a chance to see who's on the ballot and do some research online to election posts I'm unfamiliar with. Overall I don't really pay much attention to politics or the media, so that's about as close to an informed decision as I can make.

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[dcowart]

It's early voting time in FL! I voted, and I play WoW. As a 35 yro though, I probably don't fit in the normal WoW demographic...

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[us7892]

The the average WoW male is 28.3, and 32.5 for females, according to these WoW stats,

http://www.nickyee.com/daedalus/archives/001365.php [nickyee.com]

And Night-Elf hunters are the most common race and class combo, in case you're wondering about in-game demographics.

Over 35 players are a decent percentage I would venture to guess...

Isn't it obvious?

[dghcasp]

The Lich King! Write in Cheney!

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[MRe_nl]

VP: Donald the Death Knight.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/17/Rumsfeld1.jpg/225px-Rumsfeld1.jpg [wikimedia.org]

Thrall

[ukyoCE]

We can not let this alliance of fairies and unicorns continue to take our land and enslave our people.
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Vote Thrall 2008!
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For the horde!

Chuck Norris vs Murlocs

[ZirbMonkey]

Not sure how trade chat discussions end up on other realms, but the voting will inevitably be narrowed down between Murlocs and Chuck Norris.

Chuck Norris would be the obvious best choice, however Murlocs would stay in the race and present a hard battle due to their sheer numbers and ability to throw spears through walls.

What's "president?"

[uvajed_ekil]

I overheard my mom talking about this the other day, when I took a 2-minute game break to come up from the basement and grab a ho-ho. She brought my dinner down to me (duh) so that was all I heard. Is there like an election or something? Meh.