{"id":245,"date":"2008-10-01T13:25:20","date_gmt":"2008-10-01T17:25:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/vvvv\/?p=245"},"modified":"2008-10-01T13:25:20","modified_gmt":"2008-10-01T17:25:20","slug":"survey-on-newlapsed-voters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vvvv\/2008\/10\/01\/survey-on-newlapsed-voters\/","title":{"rendered":"Survey on new\/lapsed voters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New survey out from the Wall Street Journal \/ NBC \/ MySpace. <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/public\/resources\/documents\/poll_findings100108.doc\">Full report.<\/a> The <a href=\"http:\/\/wsj.com\/article\/SB122282400242492827.html\">WSJ&#8217;s read<\/a> on this was that new voters were less likely than the poll of all voters to vote this November (&#8220;very interested&#8221; = 49% vs. 70%). However, what I find interesting is that this question is on a 10-pt scale, and that the 10,9,8 votes 78% for new voters vs. 87% for all voters. I wonder if new voters are simply less willing to pick the most extreme possibility.<\/p>\n<p>Other interesting data:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n28% of new\/lapsed voters have watched a homemade video about the election on YouTube, vs. 22% of all voters.<\/li>\n<li>25% have sent a text message, vs. 16%<\/li>\n<li>21% have joined an online social networking group for either campaign, vs. 8%<\/li>\n<li>The spread of confidence across internet media, MSM, fed gv&#8217;t and financial industry are interesting as well. New voters have little confidence in any of these, but have the most (least least?) confidence in Internet media.<\/li>\n<li>Despite this, they claim to get and trust the news from cable news channel above MSM and print\/online newspapers. Despite stereotypes they don&#8217;t rank late night shows, social networking, or blogs very highly. (However, I tend to distrust self-reporting on whom the respondents &#8220;trust.&#8221; Peer influence, e.g. through social networks and blogs, would be very hard for someone to recognize on themselves.)<\/li>\n<li>Despite a stereotype that young people don&#8217;t join (and these are mostly young voters, though there&#8217;s no cross-tab), 23% identify themselves as &#8220;strong Democrat,&#8221; the largest percentage of any of the other options (19% identify as &#8220;strictly independent&#8221;).<\/li>\n<li>65% of respondents use Internet network (MS, FB, etc.), and 35% have a cell phone but no landline.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New survey out from the Wall Street Journal \/ NBC \/ MySpace. Full report. The WSJ&#8217;s read on this was that new voters were less likely than the poll of all voters to vote this November (&#8220;very interested&#8221; = 49% vs. 70%). However, what I find interesting is that this question is on a 10-pt [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":271,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[651],"tags":[3176,406,3177,1581,113],"class_list":["post-245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet-society","tag-civic-engagement","tag-digital-natives","tag-political-participation","tag-social-networking","tag-voting"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vvvv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vvvv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vvvv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vvvv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/271"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vvvv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vvvv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vvvv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vvvv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vvvv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}