How Would "Mad Men" Vote Tomorrow?

Forever frozen in our minds in the early 60s, we can only wonder how our friends from Sterling Cooper (soon to be gobbled up by Putnam, Powell, and Lowe?), on a mad gust of nicotine, and pickled in booze, would vote tomorrow.

Here is my guess:

DON DRAPER: Who will vote, Dick Whitman or Don Draper? Or does he get 2 votes?

BETTY DRAPER: Would gladly kill for a half hour in Cindy McCain's company, if only to drool over her priceless threads and gleaming jewelry. Would run, not walk, to the polls to vote for Cindy's husband, or might well gallop there on a horse.

PEGGY OLSON: A shoe-in for McCain. She not only wants to elect him, she wants to BE him. And as she herself has said: "I always pick the wrong boys."

BERT COOPER: Too busy in the men's room singing "I Believe In You" to himself, a song with new life to its lyrics these days, poor Bert forgets to vote.

See this video.

PETE CAMPBELL: Pete's loyalty, I feel, would tilt uncompromisingly toward Joe Biden. Forever in the shadows of a brilliant, elegant , ambitious and accomplished perfectionist, Pete identifies with the best parts of Joe, as well as his predilection for sometime saying, um, er, the wrong thing.

ROGER STERLING: No contest. Sarah Palin's hot.

JOAN HOLLOWAY: No contest. Obama's hot. Plus, she's justifiably bored to tears with grey-haired, moneyed, alpha-male white boys.

DUCK PHILLIPS: No way would Duck vote. The only candidate he's had any affection for, the one who strapped his dog to the roof of his car, isn't running.

Comments

[dawlishgal]

One more thing....this was before Roe v Wade, so Peggy, as a Catholic, would have voted for Kennedy! FOR SURE!

Pete strikes me as the type who always voted Republican, and who --nowadays--would be a Republican incumbent who runs on a platform of HIS family values.

[dawlishgal]

I was fresh out of college and working for a big ad agency in the early 60's. I can tell you how the people there voted. The research department (where I worked) voted for Kennedy. Everybody else voted for Nixon. Apparently, Sterling-Cooper doesn't have a research department.

[leftbehind2000]

"JOAN HOLLOWAY: No contest. Obama's hot. Plus, she's justifiably bored to tears with grey-haired, moneyed, alpha-male white boys."

Have you been watching lately? Poor Joannie went the "hot" route and got raped by her lout of a fiancee.

At this point, my guess is he'd trade him for a gray hair any day of the week.

Of course, this is really kind of silly, anyway, isn't it? Because just about every one of the crowd at Sterling Cooper consider people of color to be well below them.

[bookchik]

I have a girl crush on Joan, so I'm voting for whoever she's voting for....

[3fingerbrown]

Don't know who they'd vote for, but no doubt they'd all love to see the campaign go on for another six months. The real winners in this absurdly long process are the ad agencies who work for the candidates.

[jukesgrrl]

Last season, didn't Sterling Cooper do some work for the Nixon campaign?

[rektruax]

Yes, but remember the Republican of '60 is not the republican of today. Dean has said if Nixon were running now, he'd be considered far too liberal for todays Republican party.

Also, the vast majority of registered blacks in '60 were Republican. So Obama would probably be running with the Republican ticket back then.

[TheManhattanProject]

They'd probably all vote for the most conservative party of the era.

Except maybe Peggy and Betty and maybe Sal.


Although Joanie may be seriously re-thinking her place in society at the moment.

[wildflowermaven]

Don doesn't vote, Betty votes for who Don votes for, so she won't vote. I agree Pete would vote for Obama, Peggy probably McCain. Harry is definitely McCain. Paul would vote for Obama. Roger doesn't really care, but think you're probably right that Palin would get his vote.

[dawlishgal]

You must be kidding about Pete...he is a smug little narcissist who would certainly be a lifetime Republican! Don probably doesn't vote because he doesn't have the documentation necessary to register. If I remember those people and those days correctly, Roger would probably be a closet Democrat, but pretend to be a Republican.

One realistic part of the show is that when people want to know what is really going on, they ask the telephone operator. When I worked in the *ad game* it was the mail room that knew everybody's secrets. We underlings in the research dept., for example, would watch high-salaried account people going happily out to lunch on Friday, and we knew that they would be cleaning out their desks by 3 o'clock and wouldn't be back on Monday....the mail room was no good at keeping secrets..

[SHMV]

Let' make a bet:
Candidate with more money will win election tomorrow.

[January2008]

Let's make another bet:
Candidate with more brains and integrity will win election.