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Originally Posted by Don Plumley
I read most the political threads. I'm struck by the range of emotion, vitriol and entrenchment. This got me thinking, at what level are people more opposed to their favored opponent versus supporting the positions of who they will vote for. In other words, is the guy you will vote for simply the lesser of two evils?
Assuming that the opposition to candidate X is greater than the support of candidate Y, is this correlated to the spectrum of political leanings?
So I have put up a very brief, anonymous survey: Support or Oppose: Click Here to take the survey
If we can get enough people to answer the couple of questions, I'll run the cross tabs and share the results. And since our political threads tend to be focused on a group of folks with clear political leanings, rather than having to voice your opinion in the public forum, we might be a broader view of how the OT crowd is distributed. Might be interesting. |
Here are the results as of 8 AM PDT 9/1/08:
This is fairly direct: Over half (52%) of respondents oppose the other candidate 100% in comparison to one third (33%) that support their candidate 100%. 72% oppose the other candidate 80% or more in comparison to 63% that support their candidate 80% or more. Almost 3/4 of respondents think the their candidate is the lesser of two evils if you will.
The other questions:
60% Agree or Strongly Agree that VP choice impacts their vote.
68% identify themselves as conservative, 15% as having liberal preferences.
Party alignment correlates with the above
And for your vote:
Next we'll look at how political identification is associated with candidate support or opposition.