Survival Of The Fittest

This is a poll to determine the position of senior class president. Unlike the other polls, the student government elections are in-character. You get one vote per character of yours who is currently approved or in the queue. Post with the name of your character and their candidate of choice. You may NOT submit write-in votes for candidates who did not give a speech.

Speeches may be found here.

The candidates are:
a. Trinity Ashmore
b. Teddie Boyd
c. Chloé Delacroix
d. Darryl Smith, Jr.
e. Marshall West
f. Natasha White

This poll will run for one week.

Abhishek Panicker for Natasha White.

Donovan Lauer for Darryl Smith, Jr.

Corbin Azinger for Marshall West.

Richard Buster for Daryl Smith Jr!

Matthew Bell votes for Teddy Boyd.

Madeleine Molliqaj votes for Chloé Delacroix.

Alex Avanesian abstains.

Marshall West votes for Chloé Delacroix (because her speech was well-put together and had things he didn't think about).
Russell Fitzroy votes for Natasha White (because he wants to see the principal put in detention and really wants to know if its possible).
Mônica Oliveira votes for Teddie Boyd (because sport connections/cheer connections/amiable exes).
Roberta Chen abstains (because she zoned off and couldn't remember who said what).

There were a lot of candidates for Senior President, but for Janice only two came in mind.

She wouldn't elect Teddie or Natasha, those two were just jokes, wasted joke votes. Janice took things like Senior President Elections serious, so she would only vote someone who would take things as serious as she does. Marshall seemed like a nice guy, but he didn't really seem that competent, he didn't seem to have it in him to become president. So the only two competent figures in this competition were Trinity or Chloe. They were both suited for the position, in Janice's option. But the problem with Chloe? Janice didn't like Chloe. She can't stand Chloe. Janice liked Trinity, though. Trinity was sympathetic to Janice, Chloe wasn't. There was just something stuck-up about Chloe and something down-to-earth about Trinity that Janice couldn't ignore her inner biases to write down the name.

Trinity

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Quentin didn't even pay attention that much to the speeches, he was mainly on his cell phone. Mainly tweeting about the Abhishek incident earlier to his twitter bubble. He also replied to lots of messages and checked his instagram feed. There was lots of talking, talking, talking and he caught one or the other sentence, but who even cared? He was going to graduate soon. It's all just for someone's ego.

When he stood in front of his piece of paper he wrote down Teddy. He just seemed to be a great guy.

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Natasha

There was not even doubt in Spike when he wrote that name down. Nope, Natasha is the only person who got it. Everyone else was spewing some bullshit, but Natasha was spitting facts, pure facts. Spike hoped enough people would vote Natasha for president. But he already knew most of his classmates already were brainwashed by neoliberalism. What a sad world.

"Field was kind of weak this year, wasn't it? Qualifications wise." Ashlyn wasn't afraid to say it despite being nominally in earshot of other voters.

"I liked the people more than I liked the content I guess." Salem shrugged noncommittally. "I did zone out halfway through the second speech though."

"So you say. We both know who we're both voting for." Said with the usual defeatist finality, a tone as impassable as a brick wall and twice as dry.

"At least I actually dated her. Your bias is, like, fantasy and wet dreams."

Ashlyn Graves and Salem Fox both vote for Chloé Delacroix

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I really thought you tried your best Trinity and it was pretty damn good but... I don't think you'd actually like the job. Sorry, but trust me even though I'm not saying it to your face.

An indecisive Cedar Dalisay leaves the presidential ballot blank

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She'd fold faster than the Paris Commune. History repeats itself.

Callie Zhou votes for Natasha White

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((Soo-bin Kim Reyes is not applied yet but whatever it counts for her vote would have been for Darryl Smith, Jr.))

Tenshi Marie Anastasie Fukushima Yves abstains. You don't elect a queen. (no stop mentioning prom royalty)

Iliya Polaris votes for Natasha White. Bold speech. Always liked that.

Meena Kumar votes for Chloe Delacroix. Split second decision. Hope she doesn't regret that group chat (she will regret that group chat).

Lillie giggled in the booth, again.

“Eat the rich.”

She was pretty predictable, you know.

VOTE: NATASHA WHITE

She hummed a song. It was more of a hymn than a song. She held the note until someone told her to knock it off.

She kept humming to herself.

Marian drew the fine lines and shaped them into a circle.

VOTE: Chloe Delacroix

Zhijuan absently started to draw a small spiral on the edges of the paper, where the white was untouched by the dark lines and the names.

(These speeches were more interesting. Or at least, their content had more in it. It was easier to retain the information.)

She drew a small teddy bear.

VOTE: TEDDY BOYD

Taylor Thorne votes for Trinity Ashmore.

Iris Waite votes for Marshall West.

Kai Rosado-Prince intended to not vote but ends up distractedly circling Chloé Delacroix's name.

Angelo Lee votes for Natasha White.

Stormy Delacroix votes for Teddie Boyd.

Wendy Kennedy votes for Teddie Boyd.

Dominiqua Ashmore votes for Marshall West.

Karen Nguyen votes for Chloe Delacroix.

Chester Folk votes for Natasha White.

He stared at the paper in front of him. Stared and stared and stared.

Letting out a frustrated sigh.

"Fine."

Aion Rhodes votes for Teddie Boyd.

Amos Flanigan forgot to vote but isn't too beat up by it because all politicians are corrupt and the same anyway. (abstains)

Evie McKown isn’t really engaged with student politics at all, but she’s fond of Teddie Boyd and likes his chutzpah, and so voted for him.

Hades Thompson votes for Teddy Boyd.
Vladimir Tepes votes for Marshall West.
Ruth Flanagan writes in Dolly Parton.