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1. LECTURE #5: Public Opinion Derrick J. Johnson, MPA, JD Advanced Placement United States Government & Politics, School for Advanced Studies
2. Measuring Public Opinion Public opinion is the distribution of individual attitudes about a particular issue, candidate, or political institution. Although the definition is simple enough, public opinion encompasses the attitudes of millions of diverse people from many racial, ethnic, age, and regional groups. As a result, the study of American public opinion is especially complex, and also very important. For U.S. Government to operate democratically, the opinions of the American public must reach and become an integral part of the political process.
3. The measurement of public opinion is a complex process that involves careful interviewing procedures and wording of questions. To complicate the task further, people are often not well informed about the issues, and may comment on topics they know little about. Public opinion polls must be constructed and executed carefully in order to accurately reflect the attitudes of the American public. Public opinion polling is a relatively new science, first developed by George Gallup, who did some polling for his brother-in-law, a candidate for Iowa Secretary of State in 1932.
4. Today other well-known private firms conducts polls and big television networks, magazines and newspapers, such as CNN, Time and the New York Times, conduct their own polls. Pollsters are also hired by political candidates to determine their popularity, and the results of these polls often shape the direction of political campaigns. Polls generally start when someone wants a political question answered. For example, a candidate running for the House of Representatives may wonder, “What do people in the district need?” or “How strong of a candidate do they think I am?” Pollsters generally follow several principles in gathering accurate statistics: Representative sample The sample size of those interviewed must be representative of the population as a whole. Random sampling is the most common form.
5. Respondent’s knowledge If issues are too complex (such as American policy towards Iran), people should be able to answer “I don’t know” in their poll choices. Careful and objective wording The structure and wording of the question is very important in obtaining an accurate response. Loaded or emotional words should not be used, and the pollster must not indicate what the “right” answer is. Cost efficiency v. accuracy Almost all polls have a budget, but accuracy should not suffer as a result.
6. Variances between samples The poll conducted with a different random sample almost certainly will produce slightly different results. These slight variations are known as sampling errors. A typical poll of about fifteen hundred usually has a sampling error of plus (+) or minus (-) 3 percent.
7. Factors that Influence Political Attitudes When pollsters divide people into groups before they contact random samples, they are acknowledging a well-proven fact: group identifications often influence political attitudes. Political attitudes are shaped by political socialization, a lifelong process through which an individual acquires opinions through contact with family, friends, coworkers, and other group association. Today the media also plays a major role in political socialization, with political news and opinions widely available on T.V., radio, and the internet. Political attitudes in turn determine how individuals participate, who they vote for, and what political parties they support. Many factors – including family, gender, religion, education, social class, race and ethnicity, and region – all contribute to American political attitudes and behavior.
8. The Family Family is the most important source of political socialization, and it plays a major role in shaping political attitudes, particularly party identification. Polls show that the majority of young people identify with their parents’ political party.
9. The process beings earlier in life (by the age of ten or eleven), and even though individuals generally become more independent as they grow older, the correlation between adult party identification and the parents’ party identification is still very high. The more politically active a family is, the more likely you are to hold the same beliefs. Example: The Kennedy family are Democrats, the Bush family are Republicans. The relationship is weaker on specific issues – like gun control, school prayer, and government welfare programs - but still holds strong for overall political views and identifications.
10. Gender A person’s gender also influences political views. For example, more women consider sexual harassment in the workplace to be a serious problem than do men, and more men., and more men tend to support military actions and foreign affairs spending than do women. Party identification is also affected by gender, but the relationship has shifted throughout the years.
11. In the 1920s, when the first women began to vote, they identified mainly with the Republican Party. Many women considered the Republicans to be the party of “hearth and home” during that decade. This trend continued throughout the 1930s, despite the popularity of FDR. The trend continued until the late 1960s, when the correlation reversed. Since then, women have been more likely to vote Democratic over men. This gender gap has been explained by the advent of the modern women’s rights movement and the Democrats’ tendency to support this point of view and embracing “equal opportunity for women, abortion rights and welfare programs.”
12. Men tend to be more attracted to the Republican Party because of defense spending. In the election of 2004, the gender gap appeared to be closing, with Republican George W. Bush garnering about 48% of all women’s vote. However, Bush’s support among men was significantly higher and, in 2008, Republican John McCain’s support among women fell to 45%.
13. Marital Status Pollster John Zogby has pointed out that the gap between married and unmarried voters is very significant. He found that on most issues, single and married voters were often 25 – 30 points, with singles more likely to vote Democratic and married voters more likely to vote Republican.
14. Religion An individual’s religion is a factor that effects political attitudes. Although the relationships are not as strong as they once were, the trends still hold: Protestants are more conservative on economic matters (such as minimum wage and taxes) than Catholics and Jews. Jews tend to be more liberal on both economic and social issues (such as civil liberties) than Catholics and Protestants. Catholics tend to be more liberal on economic issues than they are on social issues.
15. In recent elections, a distinction has emerged between the political attitudes of those that attend religious services regularly and those that don’t. The trend was particularly apparent in the election of 2004, when churchgoers were more likely to vote for Republicans, and non-churchgoers were more likely to vote Democratic.
16. Education A person’s education level also affects political attitudes, but evidence provides conflicting results. In general, the higher the individual’s educational level, the more likely they are to hold conservative views. However, many studies show that college education often influences an individual to have more liberal social and economic attitudes than they did before college. Some believe that it is the liberal views of their professors that have an effect on their students.
17. Social Class A number of years ago, the relationship between social class and political attitudes was clear: the higher the social class, the more conservative the individual, and the more likely he or she was to belong to the Republican Party. Today, that relationship is much less clear, perhaps partly because of the correlation cited between education and liberalism. Relationships between the business sector and the Republican Party and blue-collar workers and the Democratic Party are weaker.
18. Race and Ethnicity Much research has focused on the relationship between an individual’s race and ethnicity and his/her political attitudes. After the American Civil War, African Americans tended to vote overwhelmingly Republican because it was seen as the party of Lincoln, who liberated the slaves. This trend stayed in place until 1930s with FDR’s New Deal causing a political realignment. The trend was reinforced with Democratic support of civil rights legislation during the 1960s. In recent elections, African Americans have voted overwhelmingly (close to 90%) for the Democratic candidate.
19. Hispanics, with exception of Cuban Americans, tend to vote with the Democratic Party and be more liberal than the majority. Cuban Americans tend to be more conservative and they generally vote Republican. However, there has been evidence that younger Cubans tend to be more inclined to support a Democratic candidate than older Cuban Americans. Asian Americans tend to fluctuate widely in their support. For example, preliminary research indicates that Korean Americans are more liberal than Japanese Americans. However, there has been a developing trend which indicate a liberal shift. For example, in the 2000, 2004 and 2008 presidential elections, more Asian Americans voted for the Democratic candidate over the Republican.
20. Geographic Region As a general rule, people on either coast tend to be more liberal than the middle of the country. However, there are many problems in defining that tendency because the rule is overbroad. For example, many Californians are very conservative, as are a number of New Englanders. However, part of the reason for the trend is probably an urban/rural differentiation, with coastal cities inhabited by minorities, recent immigrants, and members of labor unions. Cities in the rust belt of the Great lakes tend to vote Democratic, partly because they have strong labor constituencies. The Southeast represents a unique situation. From 1860s to the 1950s, the south always voted Democratic. Thus, it was called the Solid South. Al southern politicians were Democrats.
21. Since the 1950s, many southerners have broken their ties with the Democratic Party. More and more southern politicians have associated with the Republican Party. Some experts explain this trend by pointing out that many southerners disagreed with the Democratic Party’s position on civil rights and segregation. Ex: Strom Thurmond and the Dixiecrats. Although there is some evidence that southerners are more conservative than they were fifty years ago, political views today of white southerners are les distinct from those in other regions than they used to be.
22. Political Ideology: Liberal and Conservatives Political Ideology – Is a coherent set of Values and beliefs about public policy. In U.S. politics, ideologies generally are thought to fall into two opposite camps: liberal and conservative.
23. While general guidelines for determining the nature of liberalism and conservativism, the differences between the two are not always obvious because the definitions can change over time. In short, what is considered liberal ideas today can become conservative over the years, and vice versa. In early American history, liberals disapproved of a strong central government, believing that it got in the way of ordinary people reaching their ambition. They saw government as a friend of business and the political elite. Conservatives, on the other hand, believed that government was best left to political elites, although they did not deny the rights of individual voters to contribute the political system. That trend reversed during the 1930s with FDR’s New Deal. During that era, Democrats began to see government as the friend of the “little people.” Republicans began to embrace “rugged individualism” – the responsibility of all people to take care of themselves.
24. Democrats, today, are more supportive of an active big government, where as Republicans are less likely. However, this trend can be changing yet again. Ex: George W. Bush’s bailouts towards the end of his presidency.
25. How Ideological are Americans? The classic study of the 1950s, The American Voter, investigated the ideological sophistication of the American electorate. The authors created four classifications of voters: Ideologues – 12% of the people connected their opinion and beliefs to policy positions by candidates and parties. These are the party line voters or the “party’s base.” Ex: “I voted for Candidate X because she’s a conservative Republican.”
26. Group benefit voters – 42% of the people voted for parties based on which one they thought would benefit groups that they belong to or supported. Ex: “I voted for Candidate Y because he’s a Democrat and Democrats are more supportive of labor union members like me.” Nature of the times voters – 24% of the people linked good times or bad times (usually based on economics) to one political party or the other and vote accordingly. Ex: “I voted for Democrat Candidate Y because the Democrats can get us out of the recession.” No issue content -22% of the people could give no issued based or ideological reasons for voting for a party or a candidate. Ex: “I voted for Candidate X because she’s hotter than her opponent.”