{"id":6000,"date":"2010-09-21T13:13:40","date_gmt":"2010-09-21T13:13:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=6000"},"modified":"2010-09-21T13:13:40","modified_gmt":"2010-09-21T13:13:40","slug":"the-project-vote-survey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=6000","title":{"rendered":"the Project Vote survey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, Project Vote released a <a href=\"http:\/\/projectvote.org\/component\/content\/article\/516-project-vote-releases-new-poll-on-voters-views-on-government.html\">survey<\/a> of the current opinions of people who voted in 2008. (They randomly sampled from a list of actual voters, which is available from official rolls, so no one in their sample inaccurately reported that he voted.) As<a href=\"http:\/\/www.peterlevine.ws\/mt\/archives\/2010\/08\/what-happened-t-1.html\"> I&#8217;ve written before<\/a>, we ought to understand the views of the majority in the last election, rather than speculating about who will vote next time&#8211;especially since such predictions can become self-fulfilling prophesies.<\/p>\n<p>Project Vote finds the following results for 2008 voters:<\/p>\n<p>Approve of President Obama&#8217;s job performance: 48.1% (all 2008 voters); 91.8% (African Americans); 60.8% (youth); 61.8% (low income); 10.9% (people who identify today with the Tea Party).<\/p>\n<p>First-time voter? 51.5% (youth); 8.5% (all);  0.6% (Tea Partier)<\/p>\n<p>More important to spend money to stimulate the economy or to reduce the budget deficit 44.8% spend v. 48.5% reduce the deficit (all); 55.5% v. 39.6% (youth); 18.8% v. 78.6% (Tea Partiers).<\/p>\n<p>There are 67 items in all, most of them quite interesting. Overall, a picture emerges of the Tea Partiers as outliers in the 2008 electorate. The average voter&#8217;s opinion will probably move in their direction in November, 2010. But that hasn&#8217;t happened yet, and the degree to which most voters will agree with them on substantive issues remains very much to be seen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, Project Vote released a survey of the current opinions of people who voted in 2008. (They randomly sampled from a list of actual voters, which is available from official rolls, so no one in their sample inaccurately reported that he voted.) As I&#8217;ve written before, we ought to understand the views of the majority [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6000\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}