Unmarried, underemployed and unchurched

[Jolly]

Ah, the article hit a nerve. Good.

Regardless of the author's conclusions, what does the data say?

[Larry]

@LuFins-Dad said in Unmarried, underemployed and unchurched:

I’ll remind everybody that the majority of votes were mail in and didn’t participate in exit polls...

Hard to participate in exit polls when you've been dead for over a year...

[Larry]

@taiwan_girl said in Unmarried, underemployed and unchurched:

THe arthur has a good way of drawing conclusions from very minimal set of data.

You should certainly know about that one! Lol

[Doctor Phibes]

@Jolly said in Unmarried, underemployed and unchurched:

Ah, the article hit a nerve. Good.

Regardless of the author's conclusions, what does the data say?

Basically, old people tend to be more conservative. Big surprise.

[LuFins Dad]

It means nothing. All it means is that of the people that voted on Election Day, which is a vast minority of voters this year.

[Larry]

@Doctor-Phibes said in Unmarried, underemployed and unchurched:

@Jolly said in Unmarried, underemployed and unchurched:

Ah, the article hit a nerve. Good.

Regardless of the author's conclusions, what does the data say?

Basically, old people tend to be more conservative. Big surprise.

Also, people who cant or wont work and who lack a spiritual foundation tend to vote for free stuff.

[Doctor Phibes]

The author of the article was apparently research director for Patrick Buchanan's Republican primary campaign against President George H.W. Bush.

So, he should be used to losing elections.

[Jolly]

@Doctor-Phibes said in Unmarried, underemployed and unchurched:

The author of the article was apparently research director for Patrick Buchanan's Republican primary campaign against President George H.W. Bush.

So, he should be used to losing elections.

Think he made his stats up?

[Larry]

@Doctor-Phibes said in Unmarried, underemployed and unchurched:

The author of the article was apparently research director for Patrick Buchanan's Republican primary campaign against President George H.W. Bush.

So, he should be used to losing elections.

Yes, by all means let's dismiss him because he's not a democrat.

[Doctor Phibes]

@Jolly said in Unmarried, underemployed and unchurched:

@Doctor-Phibes said in Unmarried, underemployed and unchurched:

The author of the article was apparently research director for Patrick Buchanan's Republican primary campaign against President George H.W. Bush.

So, he should be used to losing elections.

Think he made his stats up?

Probably not. I'd guess he's got a lot of free time.

Basically, he's saying that if only all Americans were like him, his guys would win the election.

[Larry]

No, that's not what he's saying at all.

[Doctor Phibes]

@Larry said in Unmarried, underemployed and unchurched:

@Doctor-Phibes said in Unmarried, underemployed and unchurched:

The author of the article was apparently research director for Patrick Buchanan's Republican primary campaign against President George H.W. Bush.

So, he should be used to losing elections.

Yes, by all means let's dismiss him because he's not a democrat.

I didn't dismiss him. I found the article rather unpleasant. He's looking down his nose at a lot of people.

By all means dismiss his elitist snobbery because he's not a Democrat.

[Jolly]

As some folks like to say around here, data is data.

If the data is true, it means that people with more needs voted for Biden, at least on election day.

[Larry]

How is discussing the results of exit polls snobbery?

[taiwan_girl]

As @LuFins-Dad said, many many people would not have been asked, so the poll is “skew” already. I think our math people would would agree it is very in reliable.

If I go to a Chinese restaurant and stand outside the woman bathroom and count customers, my conclusion would be that only woman eat At this Chinese Restaurant.

[Jolly]

140,000 is a pretty good sample size.

[Doctor Phibes]

I've found that people are much more willing to accept the results of polls that confirm what they believe.

I mean, we're being asked by conservatives to believe that all the polls prior to the election were completely bogus, but this one is accurate. And presumably, the opposite goes for liberals.

The results don't surprise me, at any rate. Disadvantaged people tend to vote Democrat, they tend not to have as good jobs, they tend to live pay-check to pay-check.

All the stuff about going to church is nice. The majority of Americans don't go to church. I don't go to church. The idea that if everybody started going to church the Republicans would win is fascinating from a psychological perspective and all, but probably irrelevant since church numbers seem more likely to decline than increase in coming years.

[Larry]

It's not the act of going to church that's important. It's having the spiritual values one gains from it.

[taiwan_girl]

It would be an interesting poll to ask prisoners in jail if they were religious or not. My guess would be that the majority say that they are religious.

[Jolly]

@taiwan_girl said in Unmarried, underemployed and unchurched:

It would be an interesting poll to ask prisoners in jail if they were religious or not. My guess would be that the majority say that they are religious.

Depends if they are on death row.