Ok...this topic is going to get locked quick. I'm just wondering if the choice about political parties and the choice about consoles are related. So I'm asking everyone to state their main console of choice in this next generation...and their political preference. I would like to use an artificial number system to determine how much for a political party you are. the system will be from 1-100, with numbers 1-49 being democrat( left) , 50 being in between, and 51-100 being republican (right). For instance, if you are very republican, you might put 90. If you are more than slightly in favor of the democrats' ideals you would put 40. Hopefully this isn't confusing, nor does it become an angry thread. I will begin. Wii.. 20

I'm an Albertan ... Effectively there is only one political party I can choose ... I own a Wii

AAAHHHH!!! *pulls cover over head to hide from the Ralph Klein under my bed* You crazy Oil drinking, Cattle ranching, slot machine pulling, Rocky mountain climbing...*scratches head to think of other Albertan stereotypes*... giant mall loving conservative! I'm an NDP'er. To help the Americans, If the U.S. had a system where third parties could actually get seats in the house, we'd be Ralph Nader's party And I own an Xbox, and want a DS and Wii.

Come on ... Ralph was classic... For those that don't know too much about King Ralph: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Klein The incident was that Ralphy walked into a homeless shelter, threw money around and shouted at the homeless people to "get a Job." In his defence (sort of) Alberta has had the lowest unemployment rate in Canada for a very long time and the only reason a person was homeless at the time was because they had serious mental problems ... The funny thing is that most Albertans thought he made a better leader when he was drunk ...

I would be off that chart. I am neither. I am independent. 22. PS3, PSP, DS, DS, Wii. (I have 2 DS... not DS lite)

I believe NeoGaf had a similar thread. They stated that most video game owners were left-leaning, with Nintendo owners leaning left the most, followed by Sony then Xbox, but only in slight numbers.

Is there a link, Stickball? Those results are what I would have expected, but I'd really like to see them. Not that any of it matters. Just idle curioisty. Thanks.

I suspect that if you controlled for age and property ownership you'd find that gamers were pretty representative of the general population ... Age because younger people tend to be more idealistic (which would lead to people being more liberal) Property ownership because home-owners tend to be more worried about taxes (which would lead to people being more conservative)

Unfortunately, I cannot find the thread - either I am entering the wrong search words, or something of that nature. But really, what it came down to was the median age of the system owners went in the same way their political orientation went Younger ones went with Nintendo>Sony>MS which was the same as political orientation. Since it was worldwide, many Europeans participated, which caused a stronger-than-normal (atleast if it was a US/Canada-only poll) shift to the left. But at any rate, it pretty much shifted with general population trends. Older people owned Xboxes (on average), and were more conservative. Younger ones owned Nintendo products and were slightly (by maybe 10%) more liberal than the Xbox owners on the other side. Sony was in the middle.

Happy Squrriel.. just please, PLEASE! tell me you didn't vote for the guy. *puppy eyes* please.