If dogs could vote would they be overwhelmingly liberal or conservative?

They would be overwhelmingly smart enough to refuse to participate.

Who has the beef jerky?
Seriously, their votes are so easily bought, it’s impossible to determine their political agendas.

I’m going with liberal, mostly because of the public ball licking.

On further reflection, I’d support canine legislation mandating that humans behave in doglike ways. I really want to see bankers greeting each other in the halls with a good ass-sniff and real, rather than symbolic dominance humping in the board meetings.

For the rest of your question, cats and dogs get along fine; that enmity trope is just played for comic effect, but yes, squirrels and rabbits are totally fucked. They’ll be in movement restricting leg irons.

@poisonedantidote you owe me a new keyboard. I just sprayed Gatorade out my nose all over this one.

I tend to agree with @WasCy as usual but just for shits and giggles, I’d say the party lines would probably be divided up by breed. Dalmations and various herding dogs would probably be members of the big unions, as skilled laborers, and thus likely to swing democrat. German shepherds, numerous breeds of hunting dog, and weimaraners would probably be conservative, because of obvious reasons, and I’d go so far as to say that Hungarian Puli sheep dogs puli sheep would vote for the Green Party.

Following @Fiddle_Playing_Creole_Bastard‘s logic who I have to admit is pretty smart for a kid sometimes, but I wouldn’t say that out loud because I don’t want it going to his head, the mutts who have to make it or break it on their own (and who have to teach the show dogs how to survive when they have to go feral) would overwhelmingly vote Libertarian, or force a None Of The Above line on all ballots, and usher us into a golden age of extremely limited government.

At least until the fucking cats get the vote.

@WasCy everyone knows that cats would invariably vote Fascist

Fascist, Communist, Black Panther, whatever. It’d be totalitarian in one shape or another, no doubt about that.

Dogs are like the Communist Politburo – no respect for anyone else’s property, but don’t touch theirs! Plus they piss everywhere but don’t piss on their hydrant.

But they are definitely in favor of free love….

Whatever you do, don’t give the vote to pigs. I read a book about that once. I mean, it’s true that everything’s better with bacon, but I think pigs would vote that idea down. Maybe even make it unconstitutional. Think about the implications of that! Things not being better with bacon? Preposterous. That’s where we’d be headed.

Dog behavior is ultimately totalitarian. What alpha says, goes. Dogs would be friendly Nazis, without the eugenics and exclusivity. Dogs love everybody.

They’ll just like whoever seems the most optimistic and happy.

I have a feeling cats would not even register if they could. Dogs would be split, but mostly Republican I think.

I sort of get the impression all cats would be French or French-Canadian. Don’t ask me to explain.

@cockswain Was Pepe le Pew’s girlfriend French also? This is the second time in a week I mention Pepe and the kitty he is enamored with.

To the best of my knowledge, she never spoke so we can never know. But she probably was.

@JLeslie She is French.

Cat/Penelope: Le mew? Le purrrrrrr.
Proprietor: A-a-ahhh. Le pussy ferocious! Remove zot skunk! Zot cat-pole from ze premises!! Avec!!
Cat/Penelope: (Smells skunk) Sniff, sniff, sniff-sniff, sniff-sniff.
Pepé: Quel es? ... Ahhh… la belle femme skunk fatale!! Tch-tch.

They’d vote for none of the above coz a pooch can smell bullshit from a mile away.

“If they did rule the world, I hope they wouldn’t pick their leaders by size. Because I bet there are a lot of chihuahuas out there with some really good ideas.”