Houston Loring



Houston Loring was an American election analyst and author who wrote Revealed: How the Green Party Rose to Dominance in American Politics, which documented the Green Party's rapid rise in American politics in the late 2060s, 2070s and early 2080s, following the 2084 presidential election, which was won in a landslide by Green Annie Brown. He also served as the 2nd and final president of the American polling company Puckett Surveys, from 2084 to the company's demise in 2093.

Early life
Houston Loring was born in Lucas, Kansas, a town of about 300 people in the north-central part of the state. Despite the heavy conservative bent of the area, his family was very left-leaning. Loring first became interested in politics when he was about 11 years old, when he was closely watching the ongoing 2036 presidential election campaign and could, as he put it in an interview in 2095, "effortlessly recite election predictions and results from every state." Loring graduated from Sylvan-Lucas High School in Sylvan Grove, a neighboring city of Lucas, in 2041. He moved to Manhattan, Kansas to study political science at Kansas State University that same year, and following him getting a degree in the subject in 2045, he moved to the New Columbia (Washington, D.C.) area to work for a political consulting firm.

Career as an analyst
Loring left his job at the political consulting firm in 2053, and joined the polling firm and analysis company Puckett Surveys, founded by statistician and businessman Jamie Puckett, which was also headquartered in the New Columbia area. Loring served as Vice President of the company from 2056 to Puckett's death in 2084, when he became the company's president. He served as the president of Puckett Surveys from 2084 to the company's demise in 2093, which was triggered by a series of poor business decisions by him and other top-level management.

Later life
Loring was cushioned by his savings from the demise of Puckett Surveys in 2093 to his death in 2126. He lived in the North Ridge neighborhood of Alexandria, Virginia from 2069 to his death.