Below are imagined introspective inquiries by a middle-aged white man who is for Trump and a middle-aged white woman who is for Clinton:
Elrod: Why am I for Trump? Yes, I'm mad. I'm sick of a privileged elite of women and minorities like Obama and Hillary who think they're better than the rest of us. The kind of sexism and racism you can get away with nowadays is all against men and against whites, and it's garbage. Trump! And he's fun, too. There's always a twinkle in his eye--I bet I could have a great time with him. Yes, I admit I've got some reservations. I think Hillary gets politics and how things work, and Trump doesn't. And does Donald have any shame, I wonder. Hey, I do. I know I treated Vera wrong with all my drinking and my catting around. But Donald--I wonder if he ever has felt ashamed about anything. And I worry about that.
Vera: Why am I for Hillary? God, I'm so happy that there finally is going to be a woman president! So happy I can cry. And yes, I'm mad. I look at Trump and I see all the male garbage that I and every woman has had to put up with for fifty thousand years, big as a giant dump truck on an Imax screen. I see Elrod and his lawyer, asking for alimony from me because Elrod drank his life away and couldn't hold a job. Hillary! I'm with her!!! And yes, though...yes, I worry. Partly for practical reasons--I think Trump and the Republicans get business and how the economy works in a way that Hillary and the Democrats don't. And part of it's emotional. I'm huge on taking responsibility, I told our children all the time that life is about what you can do, not blaming other people...and I worry that Hillary and the Democrats encourage people to do that.
In both Elrod and Vera, their active, or yang temperaments--the angry/choleric and happy/sanguine--tilt them toward their preferred candidates, while their passive, or yin temperaments--the ashamed/melancholic and the calm/phlegmatic tilt them in the other direction.
A few potential research questions: How could one measure political ambivalence based on temperaments? What proportion of us have temperament-related political ambivalence? Is it the case, as the example above implies, that the more active temperaments usually prevail over the quieter ones?