Queer[y]ing the Vote

4 December, 2007 in Identity, Identity Politics, Philosophy, Politics, Queer by irobyn | No comments

For those of you interested in the Queer vote, here is something that a friend of mine forwarded to me last week. After some thought, I felt it was important to post both the link and some of the text that the poll revealed!The link from where I retrieved this data: http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/news/#hunterpoll

Hunter Poll Finds Clinton Has Support of 63% of LGB Likely Voters

In the first public, political survey ever conducted by a university-based team of scholars with a nationally representative sample of lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGBs) Americans, results released today show that Senator Hillary Clinton has the support of 63 percent of LGB likely voters in the Democratic primaries, followed by Senator Barack Obama with 22 percent and John Edwards with 7 percent. The Hunter College Poll also finds that during the process of “coming out,” LGBs become more liberal and more engaged in the political process than the general population.

“We found a stunning transformation in political views in the LGB community of a magnitude that is virtually unparalleled among social groupings in the U.S. population,” said political science professor Kenneth Sherrill of Hunter College, one of the study’s investigators. The Hunter College Poll was conducted with 768 respondents by Knowledge Networks, Inc. from November 15th through November 26th, 2007.

Other findings include:

•	Nine in 10 LGB likely voters will vote in the Democratic primaries and 21 percent say that lesbian and gay rights will be the most important issue influencing their vote in 2008.

	goal	% saying goal is “extremely important”
	enacting employment non-discrimination laws	59%
	protections from bias crimes	59%
	securing spousal benefits	58%
	AIDS funding	53%
	legalizing same-sex marriage	50%
	rights of transgendered people	36%
	ending the military’s ban on being openly gay	36%

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***POLL DATA BELOW***

THE 2007 HUNTER COLLEGE POLL

NATIONAL SURVEY OF LESBIANS, GAYS AND BISEXUALS

NOVEMBER 15-26, 2007

N = 768

Demographics

		% of LGBs			% of LGBs

SEXUAL ORIENTATION			PARTY IDENTIFICATION
	Gay, lesbian, homosexual	51.1		Strong Democrat	33.3
	Bisexual	48.9		Not strong Democrat	22.1
				Lean Democrat	28.0
GENDER				Independent/Undecided/Other	3.0
	Female	51.2		Lean Republican	5.7
	Male	48.8		Not strong Republican	5.7
				Strong Republican	2.2
AGE
	18-29	30.2	POLITICAL VIEWS
	30-44	32.2		Extremely liberal	15.3
	45-59	28.6		Liberal	32.1
	60+	8.9		Slightly liberal	13.9
				Moderate	27.9
EDUCATION				Slightly conservative	3.9
	Less than high school	10.2		Conservative	2.3
	High school	23.7		Extremely conservative	2.0
	Some college	32.4		DK/refused	2.6
	Bachelor’s degree or higher	33.7

HOUSEHOLD INCOME
	less than $10,000	14.0
	$10,000-$24,999	19.1
	$25,000-$49,999	29.8
	$50,000-$74,999	17.5
	$75,000 or more	19.6

RACE/ETHNICITY
	White, not Hispanic	68.7
	Black, not Hispanic	9.8
	Other, not Hispanic	1.8
	Hispanic	15.6
	2 or more races indicated	4.1

Campaign 2008

(includes only those respondents saying they would

“definitely” or “probably” vote in the 2008 primaries/caucuses) (N = 579)

VOTE IN DEMOCRATIC OR REPUBLICAN PRIMARY


	plan to vote in…	% of LGB likely voters
	Democratic primary/caucus	86.9
	Republican primary/caucus	13.1

INTENDED VOTE IN PRIMARY/CAUCUS

Democratic Primary Preference		% of LGB Democratic likely voters	Republican Primary Preference		% of LGB Republican likely voters

	Hillary Clinton	62.8		Rudy Giuliani	50.0
	Barack Obama	22.3		John McCain	23.0
	John Edwards	6.5		Mitt Romney	11.3
	Dennis Kucinich	4.5		Fred Thompson	10.0
	Bill Richardson	1.2		Mike Huckabee	3.8
	Chris Dodd	1.1		Ron Paul	1.0
	Joe Biden	1.0		Tom Tancredo	0.6
	Refused	0.6		Refused	0.3
		(N = 501)			(N = 78)

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