State Senate Candidate in Maine Exposed as WoW Player

[Olo401]

"President Pratt, is it true you merited Warcry?!"

Fuckin' lol.. Greatest post ever.

[Ziero]

Man, Warcrygate is killing me out there, doesn't anybody care about my foreign policy experience? I saved the Middle East from an evil god and a giant robot.

...ok, I'll admit I lol'd at that one

Also, it's not the fact that she plays wow that would get me to vote for her, it's the fact that when confronted with this "shocking revelation" she responded by embracing her status as an MMO and video game player.

[Takedown3]

ah warcry, i guess i shouldn't have merited that back in 07. my bad

[hey]

ah warcry, i guess i shouldn't have merited that back in 07. my bad

You better give up your dreams of becoming president. You'll never make it now.

[RKenshin]

Too bad the 25% are likely the ones that vote. The rest are all "hey man, both parties are the same anyways", "Fuck the system", "Politicians are cheats", and "YAY ANARCHY WOOO! People sitting on their asses bitching about the world, playing video games, and stocking up on doritos+mountain dew would totally do better in a world without government."

This 1000x. The odds of any of these people remembering there's an election, much less actually voting, are slim to none.

LS mate that's 30yrs old (as am I) broke out that same rhetoric. Talking about how he doesn't bother paying attention to it since it has nothing to do with him. "Voting in different people won't change anything," etc and so forth.

I'm single with no kids. He's married with 2. I can't fathom how he can be so willingly ignorant. I expect this kind of thing from younger ppl. /shakescane

Not to mention, there are different levels of gamers. A chick that only ever plays farmville and angry birds isn't really going to sympathize with an MMO player... Nor would a nothing-but-Call-of-Duty bot.

[Cantih]

I have to wonder.
WoW has claimed 10M+ subscribers, and big MMOs can usually pull a mil or two at launch. That's international numbers, but usually a big chunk is from the US.
What are the viewer/attendance numbers for NASCAR? Does "the MMOer vote" have a chance of being an actual thing.

Also, holy shit, what have I done.

[Amiricle]

I have to wonder.
WoW has claimed 10M+ subscribers, and big MMOs can usually pull a mil or two at launch. That's international numbers, but usually a big chunk is from the US.
What are the viewer/attendance numbers for NASCAR? Does "the MMOer vote" have a chance of being an actual thing.

Also, holy shit, what have I done.

Now I'm wondering why I've never heard that question before lol

Also, I'd vote for you Pratt despite the Warcrygate scandal, but I'm Canadian so doesn't count.

[arus2001]

I find it more amusing she's not level capped. Isn't leveling in WoW supposed to be stupid easy?

[Eurell]

I think she doesn't even play anymore. A follow up article said her game of choice now a days is Angry birds.

[Tajin]

Super supid easy nowadays.

[arus2001]

"She quit WoW, will she quit for Maine?!"

[Gryffes]

She raided with pickups months after bleeding edge cleared content, do we want this kind of scrub in office?

[fantasticdan]

I have to wonder.
WoW has claimed 10M+ subscribers, and big MMOs can usually pull a mil or two at launch. That's international numbers, but usually a big chunk is from the US.
What are the viewer/attendance numbers for NASCAR? Does "the MMOer vote" have a chance of being an actual thing.

Also, holy shit, what have I done.

WoW has like 2-3m US subscribers. After you subtract the kids, foreign players with US accounts, and people that just don't pay attention to politics(probably relatively high among the MMO demographic), I can't see it.

[Ksandra]

I find it more amusing she's not level capped. Isn't leveling in WoW supposed to be stupid easy?

She's 85, which was the cap until a few weeks ago.

http://us.battle.net/wow/en/characte...antiaga/simple

[Cantih]

I'd call bunk on MMOers having high political inattentiveness. General political inattentiveness is just high, and MMOers may not differ much from the baseline. So there's no reason to disregard it compared to any other moderately targeted demographic. And it's not JUST WoW, it just has the largest number publicly well known to pull from. You'd have to add part of Aion, SWTOR, TERA, RIFT, FFXI, EVE, GW2 (GW), EQ (EQ2), etc. etc. etc. They aren't as big as WoW, but everything together, they add up.

Hell, not even all NASCAR viewers are politically active, you'd have to cut it's numbers the same way. But the demographic itself had enough weight that it got braintime.

You've cost me the election.

Welcome to your first real world political lesson. Pay good attention, because it will be on the practical exam.
Better now than down the line.

[Kang]

This is hilarious. Maybe she also likes horror flicks with lots of gore. Attack that next.

[Kohan]

I'd call bunk on MMOers having high political inattentiveness. General political inattentiveness is just high

And that's that.

Sweeping generalizations can easily cover a large amount of people who play video games, simply because a large amount of people play videogames. Correlation isn't causation.