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Jeremy Castle on Religion and Voting Behavior

Tags: 2016 election, Democrats, Donald Trump, evangelicals, Jerry Falwell Jr., Millennials, minimal effect, party affiliation, polarization, political campaigns, public opinion, religion and politics, Republicans, secularism, survey experiments, The Lego Movie

How does religious messaging affect voter attitudes towards a candidate? Prof. Jeremy Castle (Central Michigan University) discusses some experimental research he conducted on this topic with a number of colleagues and shares observations on a wide range of factors that affect how individuals vote. We discuss the political and social attitudes of Millennial evangelicals, and how religious rhetoric played out during the 2016 presidential election. Jeremy also chats about his work on whether or not political messages in movies have an impact on individuals.

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Frank Newport on Survey Research and American Religiosity (Encore Presentation)

Tags: AAPOR, dog tag religion, fertility, Gallup Poll, immigration, Millennials, non-denominationalism, opinion polls, public opinion, religious marketing, religious nones, response rates, sample size, sampling frame, secularism, survey research

Encore Presentation: Dr. Frank Newport, the Editor-in-Chief at Gallup, discusses the process of public opinion research and what it tells us about America’s changing religious landscape. We spend a significant amount of time discussing how polls are conducted, what their limitations are, and how survey companies like Gallup try to overcome these problems. This is a fantastic primer for those who are unfamiliar with survey research. We spend the second half of the interview discussing Dr. Newport’s book, “God Is Alive & Well,” which argues that America is still a vibrantly spiritual nation.

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Frank Newport on Survey Research and America’s Religiosity

Dr. Frank Newport, the Editor-in-Chief at Gallup, discusses the process of public opinion research and what it tells us about America’s changing religious landscape. We spend a significant amount of time discussing how polls are conducted, what their limitations are, and how survey companies like Gallup try to overcome these problems. This is a fantastic primer for those who are unfamiliar with survey research. We spend the second half of the interview discussing Dr. Newport’s book, “God Is Alive & Well,” which argues that America is still a vibrantly spiritual nation.

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Louis Bolce on the Media and Anti-Fundamentalism

Tags: 1972 Democratic convention, Christian Right, Democrats, elite opinion, Fundamentalism, fundamentalists, God gap, media bias, New York Times, public opinion, religion and politics, Republicans, seculars, Seigal Report

Prof. Louis Bolce reveals how the news media view Christian fundamentalists and how that media image translates into elite opinion. Based upon extensive use of survey research, Prof. Bolce notes that even though there has been a growing “religious gap” in the American electorate (larger than the “gender gap”), media outlets did not pick up on this trend in a serious way until the 2004 presidential election. The coverage of fundamentalists and evangelicals at that time tended to reinforce stereotypes about this group among individuals who are most attentive to the news.

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