"Imports" should really be broken up into two groups, American made, and well.. Imported. An Accord has more American parts than some American cars and is built in the USA unlike the last Camaro which was from Canada....Quebec no less

Notice the big money imports are split right down the middle between both major parties.

Republicans have a lot of two very different people, the wealthy and the uneducated. Too bad they didn't break it up between rich and poorer republicans.

I don't have a wife but my girlfried has a Taurus, I don't think anyone here is thying to "bust up a generalization". it is just interesting to see how other people fall into this trend. Other than 3-4 people most everyone I know are more of a Rudy republican, but dislikes Bush republicanism, which really isn't replicanism, and drive a Domestic. Import buyers seem to be split evenly...at least out of the people I know.

 

I don't know about that the whole premise of this study, but i can DEFINITLY vouch for the Subaru's! From my personal observation (based off bumper stickers), they are not only the most liberal car buying populace, but they also seem to be the most political (as far as showing public support for their political ideals). Maybe, it's the lack of republican presense in my area, but the republicans almost do nothing as far as showing public support or voicing for their party of choice.

 

All my vehicles have been GM and Ford (Camaro, Firebird, Camaro, C/K 1500, T/A, F-150). I'm independent...although most people in the lounge think i'm a flaming liberal. Fact is i hate democrats as much as republicans. I used to be a religious Rush Limbaugh listener (for entertainment purposes only) and still get a kick out of the Daily Show which is totally liberal. I thought Bill Clinton was a worthless liar...and coincidentally I think GW is a moron...and i didn't vote for either of them. I mainly vote independent (i did vote for two republican candidates for congress/senate this year).

I can see where this whole thing stems from though. I'm not going to use the term "liberal" or "conservative" here. They honestly don't fit. Let's face it - 90% of this country is republican or democrat and they seem to sheepishly follow whatever their party says (can you imagine republicans 10 years ago agreeing with our current state of spending while Clinton was in office? No, they'd be up in arms over the GW administrations spending habits - but becuase it's republican they're ok. And visa versa...10 years ago Dems would have had no issue with the spending while Clinton was in office...but now are up in arms about GWs budget).

The fact is there are far more democrats who are tree huggers...and they all think foreign cars are more eco friendly. There are far more republicans who drive their Ford Excursion on their 100 mile per day commute and whine about gas prices being too high. That isn't to say all democrats or republicans are like this...in fact both are minorities in their respective groups I would say. But we all tend to get this impression based on the few. To me these statistics are pretty irrelevent. I wish they would do a study based on where the cars are actually built - there are lots of Honda's and Toyota's built in the US. Ironically this board seems to me to be predominantly Conservative (or republican...whichever you choose). I base this of course off of Lounge posts where politics is frequently discussed. The irony is that we are all brought here by a common interest - that of a vehicle that was built in Canada. Can a Camaro truly even be considered domestic? That's another discussion entirely.

Finally, as a self proclaimed (and registered) Independent i would prefer to not be associated with the Scion brand.

 

That's an outrageous statement.

First, you are ignoring the super rich like Bill Gates (Democrat), Warren Buffet (Democrat), and George Soros (Democrat, pot smoker).

Second, I would like to note that in 2000 Al Gore (Democrat) won the "did not complete high school" vote by about 10%.

I understand that is just your perception of reality, but its ridiculously wrong.

Using this demographic output from 2004, we can see some trends that blow your perception to hell and back:

http://www.usatoday.com/news/graphic...olls/flash.htm

Kerry won "did not complete high school" 50-49
Bush won HS Graduates 51-48, some college 53-46, and College grads 51-47

The ONLY "educated" category kerry won was post-graduate studies, 55-43, and we all know that most post-graduate students end up in academia, and we all know what a cluster-f--- of cloistered, inbred liberal thought (i.e. lack of intellectual diversity) academia is.

I would suggest backing up broad statements with some sort of evidence next time.

 

Further, according to Annenberg: (http://www.annenbergpublicpolicycent...d_11-19_pr.pdf)

38% of HS-or-less voters consider themselves Democrats, only 30% of GOPers
College degree or more breaks down 30/30

As for household income, Those under $35K break down 42/25 for the Democrats
35K-75K breaks down 33/33, so apparently the middle class is a WASH
+75K goes 38/29 GOP, as you might expect but not the overwhelming numbers conventional wisdom would suggest.

 

I guess it could go either way.
Dems are the usualy the working class, therefor usualy have American cars, while Republicans usualy have more money and tend to buy imports.
Then there are Dems who are tree hugging hippies that buy ToyHondas that gas up on love and roses come out of the tail pipes, and then you have the "NASCAR" dads that buy Monte Carlos cause it would be a dishonor to #3 if they got a Accord.

 

Enormous amounts? Not really, just a few cars, mostly just sold for American consumption like the Avalon.

 

I think George Bush is the biggest mistake this country has ever made, and what's even better is that we've put him in office twice!!! (Ok, technically once ) I am a democrat, and I drive GMs. I also live on the East Coast. I guess they didn't talk to me before writing that article

 

Another Dem on the east coast that drives GM.

 

A lot of you guys are missing the point.

There are exceptions to every rule... no one is questioning that.

It's a 150,000 sample size, and it shows what it shows.

 

I'm independent, and have never owned an import.

I agree with you on GW, but only because of 2 reasons:

1. He's completly wrecking the country's finances.
He never vetoed a spending bill and jacked up federal spending to historic levels (even discounting terror related spending). Then he cut the money going into the government by tax giveaways to the wealthy. Now, he's advocating borrowing trillions more to cover cash that's going to be lost when people pull out money from Social Security to play the stock market.

2. Short of Nixon, I can't think of any President who so stubbornly refuses to adapt to realities. Everyone there knew we needed more troops, more money, and that it was going to be more difficult than was being sold. Yet, even today, we still aren't even including the costs over there as part of the budget. Don't get me started on that perscription drug program that miraculously ended up being over twice the cost of what congress was told after it was passed, signed, and is coming into effect.

I like alot of things that Bush has done, but I'm appalled at how he's created a massive deficit and instead of even attempting to rein it in, he's proposing even more massive spending on an unprecidented scale on something that isn't going to contribute one penny to Social Security's future.

I'm glad Congress is finally remembering that they control the purse strings, and don't have to go along with everything the White House proposes, and that the Administration is bogus on their accounting, so maybe there's hope yet.

But if GW gets everything he wants, we're going to be paying for all this.... for many, many years to come.

 

That doesn't really suprise me. I think anyone with a lot of money will usually go for high-end imports though.

 

These numbers have nothing at all to do with Bush... or Clinton, or any other president for that matter...

 

It's funny how VW is up there for democrats since only gay guys drive them, and girly girls who have no brains.

 

When I read this post I was reminded of an old saying "If your not a Liberal by the time you turn 20, you have no heart, If you are not a conservative by the time you turn 30, you have no brain." Not suprized that tree-huggers hate HUMMERS and LOVE Subarus!!!