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Entries for the ‘Party Identification’ Category

The Military and the Coming Election

We are going to go out on a limb and predict that the military will vote Democrat over Republican this year by a ratio of about 1.2 to 1.  This prediction is based on demographics, historical military voter turnout, and the evident excitement about Barak Obama among black Americans.  If military blacks turnout to vote [...]

Enlisted Personnel and Politics

We are beginning to get a better picture of the politics of the American enlisted person.  Conventional wisdom would appear to paint them as more conservative and more likely to vote Republican than the average American citizen.  Such may not be true.  Early evidence from data beginning to come in seems to indicate that our [...]