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MyDD Survey Data, Part Two: Partisanship, Voting and General Ideology

by Chris Bowers, Mon Feb 05, 2007 at 06:07:58 PM EST

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It is time for part two of the MyDD reader survey. This section focuses on partisanship, voting, and general ideology.

Click here to take survey. I'll post the results tomorrow morning.

I will produce part three of the survey, which will focus on lifestyle questions, on Wednesday. Also, you can see the complete results of part one, the demographic survey, in the extended entry. You should seriously check it out--it is interesting stuff, and quite relevant to our conversations today.

MyDD Demographic Survey
1,456 self-selecting MyDD readers, 2/2-2/3

. Age
Mean: 41.4
Median: 41
Mode: 26

Under 20: 7.6%
21-28: 20.9%
29-36: 12.5%
37-44: 17.0%
45-52: 15.3%
53-60: 17.9%
Over 60: 8.8%

Gender
Male: 77.9%
Female: 22.1%

Race / Ethnicity (note: more than one answer possible)
White, Non-Hispanic: 90.1%
Asian-American: 3.0%
Mixed / Multiple: 3.0% Latino: 2.3%
African-American: 1.7%
Other: 1.7% (most of the answers here were jewish, white-ethnic, and asian)
Native-American: 0.8%

Married? (Note: I will rework this question in the future)
No: 53.2%
Yes: 46.8%

Children?
No: 61.3%
Yes: 38.7%

Education
Graduate Degree: 37.4%
Some Graduate School: 11.5%
College Graduate: 29.4%
Some College: 19.1%
High School Graduate: 1.2%
Some High School: 1.3%

2006 Household Income:
Under $20K: 8.9%
$20K-$40K: 13.1%
$40K-$60K: 16.0%
$60K-$80K: 15.3%
$80K-$100K: 13.3%
$100K-$120K: 11.4%
Over $120K: 22.0%

Religion
None: 46.5%

Protestant: 16.6%
Catholic: 12.5%
Other Christian: 3.6%

Jewish: 8.9%
Other: 11.8%

Military Service?
No: 91.1%
Yes: 8.9%

LGBT?
No: 86.2%
Yes: 13.8%

Union membership?
Current Union member: 9.5%
Current union household, but not union member: 5.9%
Former union member or household: 21.9%
Not union member or household, and never have been: 62.6%

Tags: Demographics, ideology, Democrats, meta (all tags)

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Re: MyDD Survey Data (none / 0)

Not sure if you've written many of these, but the questions could be a little more clear. Happy to help edit/write surveys in the future if you need a hand

by DemoCratic on Mon Feb 05, 2007 at 06:17:28 PM EST

Re: MyDD Survey Data (none / 0)

I have written public surveys before, but the problem with this one is that I brushed it off in only about an hour with no editor. I probably should have been working on it since Saturday.

by Chris Bowers on Mon Feb 05, 2007 at 06:19:44 PM EST
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Re: MyDD Survey Data, Part Two: Partisanship, Voti (none / 0)

Whoa... didn't realize this was such a sausage fest...

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by HellofaSandwich on Mon Feb 05, 2007 at 06:45:16 PM EST

Re: MyDD Survey Data, Part Two: Partisanship, Voti (none / 0)

So what's the proper response if my ideology happens to include voting for my party? :)

by Lucas O'Connor on Mon Feb 05, 2007 at 07:04:14 PM EST

Re: MyDD Survey Data, Part Two: Partisanship, Voti (none / 0)

Also, dayum, alright Whitey McMyDD Reader. I'll keep my "I'm down for runnin up on them crackas in they city halls" comments down to a dull roar.

by Lucas O'Connor on Mon Feb 05, 2007 at 07:06:41 PM EST

Re: MyDD Survey Data (none / 0)

A couple of pieces of feedback on the survey...

2. Ideological ID - I identify with both liberalism and progressivism, and I'm sure there are lots of people like me.

4. Voting regularity - It might help to make clearer that this is for federal offices.

5. As pointed out above, I vote my ideology and party, and largely (here in Madison, WI), they line up for federal offices.

9. I would venture a guess that many of us would say that the Democratic Party should be both more populist/inspirational AND more progressive/liberal

Help build a stronger and more progressive Democratic Party from the grassroots on up

by Peter from WI on Mon Feb 05, 2007 at 08:54:50 PM EST

Re: MyDD Survey Data, Part Two: Partisanship, Voti (none / 0)

Stoller wants to ask for me why pragmatism wasn't listed as an ideology.

by Jerome Armstrong on Mon Feb 05, 2007 at 09:03:48 PM EST

Re: MyDD Survey Data, Part Two: Partisanship, Voti (none / 0)

That would have been nice; I could have answered accurately!

by Mark Matson on Tue Feb 06, 2007 at 03:33:52 AM EST
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Re: MyDD Survey Data, Part Two: Partisanship, Voti (none / 0)

A nice addition to the survey, from my point of view, would have been participation in the political process as a partisan, e.g., have you ever run for, or held, a partisan political office on a local, state or federal level?

by MBW on Mon Feb 05, 2007 at 09:39:28 PM EST

Re: MyDD Survey Data, Part Two: Partisanship, Voti (none / 0)

My ideology requires that I vote third party when it's safe because third parties are doomed in a two-party system enforced by a winner-take-all, first-past-the-post geographical based electoral structure. When it's not safe I vote Democratic.

Jeff Wegerson - PrairieStateBlue

by wegerje on Mon Feb 05, 2007 at 09:51:25 PM EST
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Oops my comment was meant for Chris. n/t (none / 0)

Jeff Wegerson - PrairieStateBlue

by wegerje on Mon Feb 05, 2007 at 09:52:57 PM EST
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Rich, white, childless atheists.. (none / 0)

...well that explains the computer time ;)

by BrionLutz on Mon Feb 05, 2007 at 10:03:04 PM EST

Re: MyDD Survey Data, Part Two: Partisanship, Voti (none / 0)

The question:

2. How do you ideologically self-identify?

did not provide the option "Leftist", so I chose "Other".