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by: Marcus

Thu Apr 09, 2009 at 10:58 AM EDT


The discussion regarding "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" surprised me in that a number of people volunteered their age and were, on the whole, younger than I imagined the members of this site to be.  To test this hypothesis, (since the Bueller sample may have been self selecting, for obvious reasons) I've created a poll.  The age spreads are a bit narrower for the younger ages.  If people enjoy this, I will perhaps do more demographic polls in the future.
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My age: 18
I wouldn't be surprised if this is, on average, a "younger" site than Daily Kos, Congress Matters, or other big liberal blogs/communities. This is a site more or less dominated by (and I'm one of these people) energetic number-crunchers and election junkies with too much time on their hands. You'd probably find that genus SSPer is more likely to be young, single, male, and geeky than the average blogger.

20 years old, male, GA-12 (home), GA-10 (school); previously lived in CA-29, CA-28, CA-23, IL-06, IL-14, GA-01.
and
probably slightly more homosexual than the nation at large.  Anyone else notice how many gay people there are here?  I even chatted with my one poli sci prof about how there are some gay heres and what political implications that may have.
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News to me
I wasn't aware of that at all. Being straight, I have definitely noticed the paucity of women on this site.

20 years old, male, GA-12 (home), GA-10 (school); previously lived in CA-29, CA-28, CA-23, IL-06, IL-14, GA-01.
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I'm a woman! Aged 26
And unlike most women, I am proud to be a number-crunching geek!

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28, New Democrat, Female, TX-03 (hometown CA-26)
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speaking of which, The Caped Composer
I wonder why she doesn't hang around here more often.  I did see her at SenateGuru recently, but I haven't been to SenateGuru much myself.  SG has, admittedly, a lot more spin than this place does, so that might be one reason I don't like it as much.  (Also, I've had problems with its YouTube embedding before, and its site has way too many embedded videos for it to load quickly.)

As for gays, though, yeah, there are definitely a lot here.  I suspect it's similar in other liberal/progressive politics communities.  And for reference, I hang out at the TV Tropes fora and IRC channel, where the number of GLBTs possibly exceeds the ones here.

I'm heterosexual myself, for reference.  And I know better than to take people's nicknames and declarations of gender and sexuality at face value, heh.

party: Democratic, ideology: moderate, district: CT-01

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yeah, no longer a contributing editor
I was wondering that as well, must've missed her 'farewell from the editorial staff' note.
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I dont think she posted one
"Lord' knows I check this site entirely too many times a day to know that I wouldnt have missed that.
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Also, woot geeky girls!
Yeah, it took me a while to realize you were female.  Usually, if I care to know someone's gender, I just wait until they use a pronoun to describe themselves.

Speaking of number-crunching, that's one good thing about this site.  I think ChadInFL and I wouldn't get along philosphically, but in terms of number-crunching, election analysis, and such, we get along really well.

Now, for some reason, for the longest time I thought Crisitunity was female...

party: Democratic, ideology: moderate, district: CT-01

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26 seems to be the median
based on the responses so far.

I'm also 26.

28, Unenrolled, MA-08

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Actually, never mind
I counted the under 18 response as over 26, so the median is probably 25.

28, Unenrolled, MA-08
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How can you tell?
Nobody is ever specific. I'm 30 by the way.
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I'm 23
And as far as a lot of the gay community being interested in a blog explicitly dedicated to elections - there's nothing like being told you're not entitled to full human dignity to get you engaged for the other party, I'd imagine.

Anecdotally: whilst I attended UT - the motto for the city is "Keep Austin Weird" - I met evangelical pro-immigration/pro-social justice Republicans, anti-immigration Democrats, every imaginable shade of pro-finance industry neoliberal, the most stereotypical "Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition!" Bush Republicans imaginable, and Ron Paulistas who were against pretty much every innovation in American governance since Roosevelt.

I had the pleasure of meeting someone who happened to be a gay Republican precisely once, and he was about as conservative as David Cameron's Tories in the UK - and even then, by the end of the 2008 election, he was a registered independent who'd sat out the primaries and voted for Obama in the general.

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There are a ton of gays on TPM too.
MyDD seems to be like half gay. This contrasts greatly IRL where zero (count em z-e-r-o) of my friends have the slightest interest in politics. They couldn't even tell you who the Speaker of the House was. They all know who Sarah Palin is though and they all love her.
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I'm 22
and bi.  Definitely a younger demographic here than dailykos (despite the stereotypes, dailykos actually skews towards the baby boomers, with far fewer people in their 20s).
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I'm wondering why that is
My best guess is that the younger age bracket, lacking the family obligations that many 30+ year-olds have, is afforded more free time to stay hyper-informed on horse race politics. The Daily Kos community, on the other hand, often strikes me as a support group for stressed-out 40-somethings.
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Baby boomers?
Call me stereotyping, but I am a bit surprised that they'd stick around consistently enough to form an entire internet community.

party: Democratic, ideology: moderate, district: CT-01
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Took me a while
But I found it.

Demographic Tuesday - How Old Are You

Dailykos has only about 10% under the age of 25.  Another 20% or so under the age of 35.  Most of them are over the age of 40.

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Yeah
we're probably a solid 50% or more under 30 years of age.

Kind of why I like this site, it seems like a younger crowd of political geeks who are still cool IRL.  IE, we dont spend all of our time on WoW.  (God I miss that game.....  it ruined my freshmen year of college)

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22.
And you should make some sort of project where people name their state, congressional district, and state senate/lege/assembly/whatnot representatives as well.

Isn't there some sort of website feature that allows people to do that?

party: Democratic, ideology: moderate, district: CT-01

A "census" diary might be fun
Like they do on Daily Kos, where everyone posts and answers a few basic questions about themselves.  Over on Kos, there are thousand and thousands of responses, so I never read through them, but this is a small enough community that it would be manageable.

28, Unenrolled, MA-08
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This is fun
By all means do a few more (though I wouldn't do `em more than every couple of weeks or so).
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24
We did that a while ago. SSP set up a google map and asked all the users to put a pin where we live.

26, male, Dem, NJ-12
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37.
Still geeky, but not as much time for number-crunching now that my daughter's dinner/bathtime/bedtime rituals take up half or so of my evenings...
15
I think Populista and I are probably the youngest posters here.

16, Male, MI-01
21 here.

Guess I'm the old guy in the club
at 38. But if they'd had SSP when I was in college, I certainly would have been there. If only they'd had the Internet back then. (They did have this thing called the "VAX," which you would use to access "listservs," some of which were called "alt.politics," which I think has the same relationship to today's blogosphere as an archaeopteryx has to a chicken).
23

Yeesh
I'm older than most people on here and I'm only 28.  I feel like a dirty old man hanging out with so many youngsters.
I feel old too at 26!


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28, New Democrat, Female, TX-03 (hometown CA-26)
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Me
Age: 24

Sex: Male

Race: White (with some Native American mixed in)

Location: Cartersville, Georgia

Sexual Orientation: Gay (closeted)

Religion: Atheist

Party Affiliation: Democratic

Political Ideology: Very liberal (although with some caveats)

Education: Finishing up my undergraduate degree in political science

Follow the elections in Georgia at the 2010 Georgia Race Tracker.

Well I may as well go all the way too
Age: 28

Sex: Male

Race: White

Location: Daytona Beach, FL

Sexual Orientation: Straight

Religion: Atheist

Party Affiliation: Democratic

Political Ideology: Very liberal/Socialist

Education:
University of Central Florida grad - BSBA Degree in Finance

Hobbies: Sports, video games, movies, offroading, contributing to the vast left-wing conspiracy

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On party affiliation
I'm actually a member of the CPUSA, but register and vote Democratic for lack of options in a two party system.
[ Parent ]
Good getting the ball rolling
with full info posted...

Age: 18

Sex: Male

Race: White (and part Hispanic, but I don't look it)

Location: Savannah, Georgia

Original Hometown: Los Angeles (Burbank, CA to be precise)

Sexual Orientation: Straight

Religion: agnostic Unitarian Universalist / culturally but not observantly Jewish

Party Affiliation: Democratic

Political Ideology: Liberal

Education: Pursuing undergrad (transferring right now and waiting for one more acceptance before I decide...)

And just for good measure:

U.S. Rep.: Jack Kingston (R)
Georgia State Senator: Eric Johnson (R)
Georgia State Rep.: Burke Day (R)

Random trivia: This is the first time I've ever had 100% GOP representation at the federal and state legislative levels...and Chatham County voted 57% for Obama! (But not this part of it...go figure.)

20 years old, male, GA-12 (home), GA-10 (school); previously lived in CA-29, CA-28, CA-23, IL-06, IL-14, GA-01.

[ Parent ]
Your state senate seat is going to up open
We might have a snowball's chance in hell with the right candidate, although I'm not holding my breath.

You (and everyone else) should check out the 2010 Georgia Race Tracker Wiki, a site I created, at http://2010garacetracker.wetpa...

Follow the elections in Georgia at the 2010 Georgia Race Tracker.

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Going to be* open


Follow the elections in Georgia at the 2010 Georgia Race Tracker.
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Here we go
Age: 28

Sex: Male

Race: White (though family lore says one family branch is about 1/32 Cherokee, which, while interesting, is hardly enough to matter)

Location: Denver, Colorado (and, occasionally, Parker, CO)

Sexual Orientation: Very straight (but I fall for gay women more than might be, uh, healthy)

Religion: Agnostic

Party Affiliation: Democratic

Political Ideology: Very, very, liberal (Truly a Green-leaning socialist or, perhaps, a socialist Green, but since when did third parties have a chance here in the US)

Education: In the process of the interminable dissertation phase of my PhD in International Studies (though I'm actually more of a history/political philosophy sorta guy)

30, male, Democratic, CO-01

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Might as well jump on the bandwagon
Age: 26

Sex: Female

Race: White (Scots-Irish, Russian, Armenian) with a trace of Cherokee

Location: Grapevine, Texas
- Districts: All won by McCain
-- TX-24 - Kenny Marchant (R)
-- SD-12 - Jane Nelson (R)
-- HD-98 - Vicki Truitt (R)

Hometown: Rancho Cucamonga, California
- Districts: All won by Obama! We're gonna have fun in CA-26 and AD-63 in '10, and maybe a newly-configured SD-31 in '12.
-- CA-26 - David Dreier (R)
-- SD-31 - Robert Dutton (R)
-- AD-63 - Bill Emmerson (R)

Sexual Orientation: Straight

Religion: Atheist

Party Affiliation: Independent ex-Republican

Political Ideology: Overall liberal (socially very liberal, economically center-left)

Education: University of Texas at Dallas - B.S. in Biology - May 2005

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28, New Democrat, Female, TX-03 (hometown CA-26)

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Cool that youre part Armenian and Russian
Especially since i have an Armenian American and a Russian friend. The Armenian American one lives in Glendale, CA which, as you may know, has like over a 100,000 Armenians. A beautiful city but expensive!
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Yeah
I do know Glendale has like the highest concentration of Armenians of any city. I remember reading about their congressman Adam Schiff working to get Turkey to recognize the Armenian genocide.

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28, New Democrat, Female, TX-03 (hometown CA-26)
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Heh, "all the way" was a running joke at my school
due to people's attempts at climbing a very unusual architectural feature.

Anyway:

Age: 22
Sexuality: male, heterosexual
Race: lizard I don't feel like disclosing in a convenient post over the internet; if you feel like stalking me go and dig it up yourself
Religion: personal spirituality, without organized religion
Political ideology: moderate with slight libertarian leanings
Personal ideology: moderate with conservative leanings
Education: bachelor's degree
Party affiliation: Democratic

Representation:
U.S. Senate: Christopher Dodd (D), Joe Lieberman (CfL?)
U.S. House: John Larson (D), my district has 2004/2008 SPVI of D+12
CT Senate: Gary LeBeau (D)
CT House of Representatives: Bill Aman (R)

Town Council: (I'm reading all this for the first time)
Mayor Cary N. Prague (R), Deputy Mayor Gary Brazzano (R), and Councilors Paul Oates (R), Kathryn Hale (D), Edward F. Havens (D), Lisa Maneeley (R), Kevin McCann (R), John P. Pelkey (D), Keith Yagaloff (D) (5-4 R majority, which I just realized is one better than the 6-3 R majority we had before)
Council:  

party: Democratic, ideology: moderate, district: CT-01

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Well, my ideology is actually a mess.
I'm personally conservative (but have, in the past years, trended libertarian/liberal policy-wise) on some issues I consider to be "moral" issues.  (And that's ones I consider to be moral issues, not necessarily ones that the media calls such.)

However, I'm very supportive of distribution of power, checks and balances, and anti-authoritarianism.  Yes, I don't get along well with unreasonable authority.  (I had better find something worth it in following orders.  And, granted, I usually do, especially if we're part of a team.  But this does get me into arguments with my parents.)

Economics: I haven't decided on the free versus fair trade issue.  On regulations, I'm not a socialist, but I want enough regulations that irresponsible and immoral practices don't fall through the cracks; other than that--as long as douchebag practices don't get rewarded--have fun.  I do totally feel populist rage about this financial mess.  So I guess I'm sort of a centrist, with progressive leanings.

Have I missed anything?

party: Democratic, ideology: moderate, district: CT-01

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Oh, a few more points.
Foreign policy:

Was against the Iraq War (a big, stupid distraction from Afghanistan), but now that we're in it, I'm actually inclined to take as long as we reasonably need to make sure we don't screw it up (though I obviously don't support staying there indefinitely and don't want the Iraqis mooching off of our military presence).

Besides all diplomatic ally-like ties currently grandfathered in, lack of more support for Israel, unless they and the Palestinians stop behaving like little children and establish peace.  Two-state solution tentatively preferred.  However, I know little-to-nothing about what's going on in the region, so anything I say should be taken with many, many grains of salt.

Support for military efforts in Afghanistan, combined with humanitarian/rebuilding efforts.

No opinion yet on the proposed border fence with Mexico.

Environmental issues:

Global warming is a problem, and we had better do something about it and we should look at both prevention and mitigation measures, before it's too late and we have to resort to adaptation.  Jim Inhofe can take his denial and shove it.

Interested in practical environmental preservation.  For example, saving and preserving (and possibly re-expanding) the Louisiana coastal wetlands, which is not only environmentally friendly but also lessens the impact of hurricanes.

Assorted points:
* pro-dinosaur
* support for equal rights for crayons
* insistence that Pluto is still a planet
* dislike of massive fan-overenthusiasm over Sephiroth of Final Fantasy VII fame
* preference of episodes 25-26 of Neon Genesis Evangelion (instead of "End of Evangelion" movie)

Anything else?

party: Democratic, ideology: moderate, district: CT-01

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asdf
Age: 15
Sex: male

Race: White

Location: Marquette County, Michigan
- Districts:
-- MI-1 - Bart Stupak (D)
-- SD-38 - Mike Prusi(D)
-- HD-109 - Steve Lindberg (D)

Sexual Orientation: Strictly Het'ro

Religion: None

Party Affiliation: Democratic

Political Ideology: Fairly Liberal, but sometimes centrist leaning (anti-gun control,etc.)
Education: Incomplete

16, Male, MI-01

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Okie dokie
Age: 26

Sex: male

Ethnicity (since I feel racial classifications are arbitrary): Half Polish - 1/4 Dutch - 1/4 Ashkenazi Jew (okay fine, I'm white)

Location: Somerville, MA
(Rep. Sciorito - Sen. Jehlen - Cong. Capuano)

Hometown: Berkeley, MA
(Rep. Skinner - Sen. Hancock - Cong. Lee)

Party: unenrolled

Orientation (could make more comments about arbitrariness of classifications, but I will instead suggest that you read "The History of Sexuality" by Michel Foucault): straight

Religion: Unitarian Universalist

Political leanings: Moderate, by the standards of where I've lived.  Liberal, compared to the rest of the country. (Could say much more here, but won't right now)

Education: BA Computer Science - UC Berkeley, 2004

28, Unenrolled, MA-08

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That would be Berkeley, CA
not Berkeley, MA, which doesn't exist.  (There is the Berklee College of Music, which caused much confusion when I first moved out here and would tell folks I had just graduated from Berkeley and they would ask "Want instrument do you play?")

28, Unenrolled, MA-08
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Isn't it "berkuhlee" versus "ber klee"?


party: Democratic, ideology: moderate, district: CT-01
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No, they're pronounced the same
Both "ber klee"

28, Unenrolled, MA-08
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Oh, right, I'm the only English speaker who bothers to differentiate
between things like various forms of the lazy schwa, and stuff like that.

party: Democratic, ideology: moderate, district: CT-01
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"I refute it thus!" -- Dr Johnson
"The important point to remember about philosophers of the modern period is that Berkeley is pronounced 'Barkeley' (unless referring to the city, which is pronounced 'Moscow')."

— Tom Weller, Culture Made Stupid, 1987

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Also my stae rep is Sciortino
not Sciorito.  His story is rather interesting.  He defeated an entrenched incumbent using the marriage issue as wedge.

28, Unenrolled, MA-08
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I'm your neighbor
Age: 24

Sex: male

Ethnicity: white

Location: Cambridge, MA

Hometown: Springfield, MA

Reps: Capuano (D-MA-08) but I worked for Tom Perriello so I consider him my own ;-)

Party: Democratic

Orientation: Straight and happily taken

Religion: Roman Catholic

Political leanings: Pragmatically Progressive

Education: BA English 2007 Trinity College. Currently doing work on American Religious/Political History at Harvard.  

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How'd I miss this thread?
Age: 24

Sex: Male

Race: White

Location: Friendswood, TX (TX-22) and Denton, TX (TX-26) depending on whether college is on or off

Orientation: Straight

Ideology: Liberal

Education: Bachelors of Political Science, Applying for Grad school for a Masters of Public Administration (I take the GRE next Thursday!).

26, Male, Democrat, TX-26

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And my Reps
Gov: Perry (R)
Sen. Hutchison (R) and Cornyn (R)
Rep. Pete Olson (R)
St. Sen. "Toxic" Mike Jackson (R)
St. Rep. Larry Taylor (R)

C'mon, someone outdo me on suckiness! I want to see if you can do it! (All I can think of from Texas is if you go to West Houston and get Dan Patrick as your state senator)

26, Male, Democrat, TX-26

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Ha!
Gov: Bob Riley (R)
Sen: Jeff Sessions (R) & Richard Shelby (R)
Rep: Spencer "I have a list of 17 Communists" Bachus (R)
St. Sen: Hank Erwin (R)
St. Rep: Jimmy Martin (D-Would be a conservative R anywhere else)
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I bet
Most of Friendswood hates having Ron Paul as their congressman (although i know Olson is yours, as weve discussed before). As its a place that seems like a typical very conservative suburb. Not just economically like Ron Paul but socially, on foreign policy and on national security measures. In fact it was a Friendswood city councilman that challenged him in the primary last year. But didnt come close to winning. The southern portions of his district (such as Victoria), as well as Galveston and the coastal towns near it, really dont have much in common with Friendswood so perhaps thats a reason why they didnt give him a chance. It would be freakin hilarious if the GOP redistricts Paul to put him in a district thats nearly identical to Lampson's old district (Galveston and Beaumont). Blue collar workers, in the Beaumont area, who may normally vote Republican in federal elections would vote his anti-populist ass out. He would have like nothing in common with them except gun control, abortion and some immigration positions.
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My representatives
Senators: Saxby Chambliss and Johnny Isakson
Congressman: Phil Gingrey (R)
State Senator: Bill Heath (R)
State Representative: Paul Battles (R)

Follow the elections in Georgia at the 2010 Georgia Race Tracker.
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Me, the fabulous Andrew
Age: 22

Sex: Male

Race: Minnesotan, meaning a mixture of German and Norwegian heritage, but the Catholic German took over rather than the Lutheran Norwegian.  (This chalks up MN-3 last cycle, one guys last name was Paulsen (Norwegian'ish) and the other was Madia)

Sexual Orientation: look at the subject title  :)

Religion: Atheist, it took a good 3 years to get this point

Political Ideology: Russ Feingold, like he exihibits it perfectly.  A penny pincher budget hawk who is extremely liberal in all regards with a libertarian streak with social issues.  (Seatbelt safety laws piss me off)

Education: On my last semester of undergrad at Univ. of St Thomas in St Paul majoring in Poli Sci and Justice and Peace Studies and then off to law school next year.

Location: Depends on college with both being radically different.
Sens. Klobuchar and Franken soon enough
House: College- McCollum  Home- Bachmann
State House: College- Erin Murphy   Home-Emmer
(State House districts are based off of state Senate districts so they are implied)

And this is getting bookmarked.

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I'll elaborate
I mean this thread is getting bookmarked, I really like knowing who I am chatting with and sometimes when I see someone around my age saying something ridiculously smart and above my head, makes me want to become a bigger geek.
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Me
Age: 26
Sex: Male
Race: White
Location: Seabrook, TX. With my representatives being U.S. Rep. Pete Olson, TX State Sen. Mike Jackson and TX State Rep. John Davis
Sexual orientation: Straight
Religion: Agnostic
Party Affiliation: Unaffiliated
Political ideology: Centrist (though some political tests would call me a solid liberal)
Education: HS graduate.
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Hmm, more I could add...
On political ideology, to be a little more precise: Economically moderate, socially semi-libertarian (including the support of libertarian causes like pot legalization, gambling legalization, prostitution legalization. Although im actually quite moderate on abortion and gun control...go figure), moderate on foreign policy, moderate on national security measures (as in...we should have alot of tough measures but they should be sensible), pro-environment, conservative on crime...

Hobbies: Heavy metal music, history, different cultures, travelling, watching pro wrestling, obviously following politics (including international politics), etc.

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Ancestry
Since some others includes theirs, might as well me, too. Especially since i love genealogy. Ancestries are English, Scottish, Scots-Irish, Norwegian.

And I grew up in Clear Lake City (zip code 77062), which is technically part of Houston. Does anyone know who the congressmembers were there in the 80s and 90s? Maybe it was DeLay but Im not sure.  

[ Parent ]
I'm a bit late, but whatever
Age: 15

Sex: Male

Race: White

Location: Davis, California

Original Hometown: New Haven, Connecticut

Sexual Orientation: Bisexual

Religion: Atheist

Party Affiliation: Democratic

Political Ideology: Half-assed socialist

Education: Trying to make it to college before high school kills me

U.S. Rep.: Mike Thompson (D)
California State Senator: Lois Wolk (D)
California Assemblyperson: Mariko Yamada(D)  

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28


30, male, Democratic, CO-01
17
Monroe la.

Beat my representation:
Rodney Alexander LA-05
David Vitter
Mary Landrieu
Bobby Jindall
State Sen. Mike Walsworth R and a hypocritical asshole
State Rep Kay Katz R

orientation: unknown
male
thoughtful liberal environmentalist, socialist leanings, attempting to be an intellectual.

Call no man happy until he is dead-Aeschylus

You're 17?
Cripes, I've seen you around here for quite a while. That means that, like me, you started blogging when you were a real young'n (I joined Daily Kos right around my 14th birthday).

BTW, I can beat your representation (Landrieu beats Chambliss or Isakson any day)!

20 years old, male, GA-12 (home), GA-10 (school); previously lived in CA-29, CA-28, CA-23, IL-06, IL-14, GA-01.

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let me see,
well, I joined Dkos April 14th 2006. I ran into David there, and I've been posting here since back in the stone ages when it wasn't worht posting a comment on this site because you had to copy and past a big long code thingy just to make your comment go through, and everyone was slow/

Call no man happy until he is dead-Aeschylus
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You have 1 Democrat in your Representation
I am at 0.

And to Nathaniel, while Hutchison may be better than Isaakson, Cornyn is worse than Chambliss.

I got a state Senator who got awarded a "furniture" award for all of his years in the legislature and his lack of accomplishments. He also has the "Toxic" name for going out his way for bad environmental laws. My state Rep is part f the Republican leadership even if you never hear of him.

And I got Olson, y'know, Cornyn and Gramm's former Chief of Staff.

26, Male, Democrat, TX-26

[ Parent ]
I too am stuck with all-GOP representation.


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Limey
Age: 30

Sex: Male

Ethnicity: White

Location: United Kingdom

Orientation: Straight and single

Religion: Agnostic

Political leanings: Left of center pragmatist

Education: BSc Social Science with Politics

So let's see here what to say about dgm:
Age: 22
Gender: Male
Orientation: Straight
Religion: Godless Heathen (Atheist) ;)
Ideology: Pragmatic Liberal (basically I'm a liberal who has some realistic expectations of the government)
Education: Working towards a BA in Political Science with a minor in Philosophy
Location: Albuquerque

Senators: Tom Udall and Jeff Bingaman
Representatives: Martin Heinrich
State Senator: Kent Cravens (R)
State Representative: Larry A. Larrañaga (R)

Basically I live in a relatively Republican part of a relatively Democratic city.

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24, Male, Democrat, NM-01, Chairman of the Atheist Caucus, and Majority Leader of the "Going to Hell" caucus!

Here we go
Age: 20
Gender: Male
Orientation: Gay
Religion: Technically Agnostic, basically Atheist
Ideology: Liberal, specifically very liberal on social and civil liberties issues (except my views on guns get a bit skitzo) and a little more moderate but still to the left on economics.
Education: Junior working on a BA in English with minors in PoliSci, French, and Chinese. Then Law School? Or a PhD in Comparative Literature and a ticket to live in cardboard box by the freeway for the rest of my life?
Location: Tucson or Flagstaff depending on school and some other factors (though I had to switch to online classes out of Tucson this semester).

Senators: John McCain (R) and Jon Kyl (R)
Representatives: Gabrielle Giffords and/or Ann Kirkpatrick
State Senators: Paula Aboud (D) in Tucson; Albert Hale (D) in Flagstaff
State Representatives: David Bradley (D) & Steve Farley (D) in Tucson; Tom Chabin (D) & Christopher Deschene (D) in Flagstaff  

22, Democrat, AZ-01
Peace. Love. Gabby.

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