Post by thunderhawk on Apr 24, 2015 12:07:41 GMT -6
But there is in Fucking Dipshit Americans
www.salon.com/2015/04/16/lying_cheating_stealing_winning_the_shocking_motivations_of_american_voters_revealed_in_new_study/
www.salon.com/2015/04/16/lying_cheating_stealing_winning_the_shocking_motivations_of_american_voters_revealed_in_new_study/
A new study out of the University of Kansas demonstrates that the individuals most likely to vote in elections aren’t worried about policy so much as they are invested in their “team” winning.
In “Red and Blue States of Mind: Partisan Hostility and Voting in the United States,” University of Kansas assistant professor of political science Patrick Miller and Pamela Johnston Conover, a distinguished professor of political science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, argue that in the current polarized political climate, voters behave more like obsessed sports fans than informed citizens.
“For too many of them,” Miller told the University of Kansas News Service, “it’s not high-minded, good-government, issue-based goals. It’s, ‘I hate the other party. I’m going to go out, and we’re going to beat them.’ That’s troubling.”
Analyzing data from the 2010 Cooperative Congressional Election Study, Miller and Conover found that, contrary to earlier research, party loyalty was the driving factor in voter behavior — much more so than fundamental disagreements over ideological issues.
Forty-one percent of voters who identified with either the Democratic or Republican party stated that they were more heavily invested in winning elections than achieving policy goals, whereas only 35 percent of respondents felt that ideology trumped party victory. Moreover, 38 percent of self-described Democrats and Republicans believed that politics is a zero-sum game in which electoral victory must be achieved at all cost, using any tactic necessary.
According to the researchers, such tactics included “voter suppression, stealing or cheating in elections, physical violence and threats against the other party, lying, personal attacks on opponents, not allowing the other party to speak and using the filibuster to gridlock Congress.”
Miller said that this is the first research to demonstrate that strong political partisans are motivated primarily by their affiliations, and that their commitment to their “team” is so strong that they are more than willing to endorse illegal or merely unethical voting behavior in order to achieve a victory.
In “Red and Blue States of Mind: Partisan Hostility and Voting in the United States,” University of Kansas assistant professor of political science Patrick Miller and Pamela Johnston Conover, a distinguished professor of political science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, argue that in the current polarized political climate, voters behave more like obsessed sports fans than informed citizens.
“For too many of them,” Miller told the University of Kansas News Service, “it’s not high-minded, good-government, issue-based goals. It’s, ‘I hate the other party. I’m going to go out, and we’re going to beat them.’ That’s troubling.”
Analyzing data from the 2010 Cooperative Congressional Election Study, Miller and Conover found that, contrary to earlier research, party loyalty was the driving factor in voter behavior — much more so than fundamental disagreements over ideological issues.
Forty-one percent of voters who identified with either the Democratic or Republican party stated that they were more heavily invested in winning elections than achieving policy goals, whereas only 35 percent of respondents felt that ideology trumped party victory. Moreover, 38 percent of self-described Democrats and Republicans believed that politics is a zero-sum game in which electoral victory must be achieved at all cost, using any tactic necessary.
According to the researchers, such tactics included “voter suppression, stealing or cheating in elections, physical violence and threats against the other party, lying, personal attacks on opponents, not allowing the other party to speak and using the filibuster to gridlock Congress.”
Miller said that this is the first research to demonstrate that strong political partisans are motivated primarily by their affiliations, and that their commitment to their “team” is so strong that they are more than willing to endorse illegal or merely unethical voting behavior in order to achieve a victory.
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