Can I hear an amen?
Beliefnet has a detailed breakdown of how people of various religious stripes voted last week. The Democrats' share of the Catholic voted dropped from 2000, which turned out to be fatal. Another interesting tidbit is that Kerry picked up 2 million more voters ages 18-29 than Gore did in 2000. Because of overall increases in turnout, the youth vote did not appear to increase, but given that the Democrats are losing every other parts of their base, they might want to consider ways to keep these new voters energized.
By the way, for those of you unfamiliar with it, Beliefnet is a great site for people interested in religious issues.
posted by Jonathan Potts at
10:19 AM
4 Comments:
I actually began to believe part of the Beliefnet argument UNTIL I READ ABOUT THE ORIGINS OF THEIR ASSUMPTIONS: EXIT POLLS!!!!
Aiiiiigggggghhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!! Noooooooooo!!!!!!
Extrapolating from the very poorly designed survey techniques from this pool of voters is hazardous, at best, and most likely too foolhardy to pass muster at any serious journal except, well, NY Times, USA Today, etc.
Trust not Beliefnet on this issue! Zogby and Gallup are moving better post-election exegeses for the parties, not to mention the internal GOP tracking polls, which I have read and which are better than the Exit Polling data.
6:15 PM
This was funny:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml;sessionid=QJ0RC1NVXX55FQFIQMFCM54AVCBQYJVC?xml=/opinion/2004/11/09/do0902.xml&sSheet=/opinion/2004/11/09/ixopinion.html
3:55 PM
But don't worry, JP, the results might only last, well, a generation or so:
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35438-2004Nov8.html
4:14 PM
But don't worry, JP, the results might only last, well, a generation or so:
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35438-2004Nov8.html
4:14 PM
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