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Who do you want to win the 2012 Presidential Election, and who are you voting for? {a survey, see details}?

Asked by PhiNotPi (12681points) October 6th, 2012

This question is a survey about the 2012 election. This question is unique in that I have created a survey with Google Docs for you to answer. This will provide complete anonymity to everyone (even I won’t know who answers what) and will hopefully prevent people from being afraid to share their opinions.

Here is a link to the survey.

The survey contains three main questions, slightly simplified below:

Who do you want to win?
Who will you vote for?
Who do you think will win?

Feel free to answer these questions below, but please also fill out the survey. The survey should be very quick and easy to fill out, and you are not required to answer all of the questions.

I will periodically update this thread with the statistics from the survey.

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16 Answers

glacial's avatar

Do you want American results only, or are you interested in the wider Fluther perspective?

PhiNotPi's avatar

If you are not American, here is what you can do:

Answer the survey as normal, but in the second question of who you will end up voting for, enter “I’m not American” into the “other” option.

filmfann's avatar

Obama X 3.

Brian1946's avatar

I want Jill Stein, Rocky Anderson, or Roseanne to win.

I’ll vote for Obama, because I’m that desperate to keep the greater of two evils from winning.

I think Obamney will win. ;-)

PhiNotPi's avatar

As of right now, we have had 7 respondents.

6 want Obama to win
1 wants Gary Johnson to win

6 plan on voting for Obama
1 does not plan on voting

5 think that Obama will win
1 thinks Romney will win
1 isn’t sure yet

The feedback about the survey itself has been pretty positive. People seem to like the anonymity.

One person also pointed out how Fluther is a small and biased sampling, so these results don’t mean much for the general population.

I’m going to be sleeping for a few hours, so I’ll update again when I wake up, and hopefully there will be more replies.

Also, the above data was given per question. Since the data is anonymous, is it ok if I were to post person-by-person data? I’m going to withhold doing that until other people agree that it is ok.

glacial's avatar

I’m not ok with linking data to my Fluther id. But if you don’t, I don’t care. Are you planning to include the personal comments?

PhiNotPi's avatar

The data won’t be linked to your Fluther ID. Since the survey is hosted by a third party, and you did not give your Fluther ID to them, it is impossible to link the two.

Do you think that I should post the personal comments that people made as part of the survey?

glacial's avatar

I don’t. But I didn’t make any, so it’s not really my call. :)

Brian1946's avatar

I went back and actually submitted my answers, so now the tally is:

6 want Obama to win
1 wants Gary Johnson to win
1 wants Jill Stein to win

7 plan on voting for Obama
1 does not plan on voting

6 think that Obama will win
1 thinks Romney will win
1 isn’t sure yet

augustlan's avatar

Obama x 3, and I did the survey, too.

PhiNotPi's avatar

Here’s person by person data. It is sorted in order of who you want to win.

(#) (who you want to win) (who you are voting for) (who you think will win)

1 Obama, Obama, Obama
2 Obama, Obama, Obama
3 Obama, Obama, Obama
4 Obama, Obama, Obama
5 Obama, Obama, Obama
6 Obama, Obama, Don’t know
7 Obama, Not American, Obama
8 Obama, Not American, Obama
9 Obama, Obama, Obama
10 Obama, Obama, Obama
11 Obama, Obama, Obama
12 Obama, Obama, Obama
13 Gary Johnson, does not plan to vote, Mitt Romney
14 Gary Johnson, Gary Johnson, Gary Johnson
15 Jill Stein, Obama, Obama
16 Jill Stein, Jill Stein, Obama
17 Jill Stein, Jill Stein, Obama

On a question by question basis:

12 want Barack Obama to win
2 want Gary Johnson to win
3 want Jill Stein to win

11 plan on voting for Barack Obama
1 plans on voting for Gary Johnson
2 plan on voting for Jill Stein
1 does not plan on voting
2 are not American

14 think Barack Obama will win
1 thinks Mitt Romney will win
1 thinks Gary Johnson will win
1 can’t tell because the race is too close

amujinx's avatar

Submitted. JS, JS, BO.

ucme's avatar

Not voting because i’m not from eeh-merry-ka, but I want Rommers to win simply because it would be hilarious in every conceivable way.

PhiNotPi's avatar

Since my last update, we have had two more replies.

(#) (who you want to win) (who you are voting for) (who you think will win)

18 someone decent for once, does not plan on voting, Barack Obama
19 Jill Stein, Jill Stein, Barack Obama.

PhiNotPi's avatar

We have had three more replies:

(#) (who you want to win) (who you are voting for) (who you think will win)

20 Jill Stein, Jill Stein, Barack Obama
21 Barack Obama, Barack Obama, Barack Obama
22 Barack Obama, Barack Obama, Barack Obama

PhiNotPi's avatar

It has been a while since I have updated this, but there does not appear to be any more replies.

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