Dayton Daily News (Free subscription) | yesterday
Forum to discuss race, age and religionBy William HersheyStaff WriterSunday, October 05, 2008 Voters in Ohio and across the country will make history on Nov. 4 when they choose either the nation's first black president or the country's first woman vice president.If they make Republican John McCain president, at 72 McCain will be the oldest person elected to a first term in that office.As was...
Weblogsky (Free subscription) | 10/02/2008
A bit of political anthropology via Beliefnet’s Steve Waldman and the University of Akron’s John Green at beliefnet: an analysis of “Twelve Tribes” and their positions on presidential candidates. This grouping, more nuanced than “Religious Right vs Everyone Else,” is “inspired by the twelve tribes of Biblical Israel, but formed around similarities in religious beliefs [...]
Between Two Worlds (Free subscription) | 10/02/2008
A fascinating survey out today from Beliefnet and John Green (of the Bliss Institute at University of Akron). Called The Twelve Tribes of American Politics (the first one was in 2004), it is based on the National Surveys of Religion and Politics . "The premise: most political reporting acted as if there were two groups – the Religious Right and Everyone Else." Their analysis divides the...
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 10/03/2008
RESTON, Va., Oct. 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- comScore, Inc. (Nasdaq: SCOR), will report financial results for the quarter ended September 30, 2008 in a live conference call on Thursday, October 30 at 4:30 p.m. ET. (Logo: ) Dr. Magid Abraham, President and Chief Executive Officer, and John Green, Chief Financial Officer, will provide commentary on the company's results at that time. ...
Marc Ambinder (Free subscription) | 10/02/2008
Beliefnet's Steve Waldman and the University of Akron's John Green are out with their 2008 version of the twelve tribes -- twelve different American political identities. The topline finding: the number of Americans who hold "values" issues paramount has been cut in half from 2004 ; the number citing the economy has doubled. (Cue the ruminations about theology and politics.) This is true...
kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 10/02/2008
John McCain came armed with a history book when he traveled to Ohio this week for his first rally since his initial debate with Barack Obama.
PewResearch.org | All Feeds (Free subscription) | 10/02/2008
A recently published national survey finds remarkable stability in the candidate preferences of major religious groups when compared with those at a similar stage in the 2004 campaign. The survey was conducted in the summer of 2008 by the Ray C. Bliss Institute of Applied Politics at the University of Akron and headed by John Green, a Pew Forum senior fellow and director of the Bliss...
The Crossed Pond (Free subscription) | 10/02/2008
The Twelve Tribes were introduced in 2004 as a collaboration between Beliefnet and John Green of the Bliss Institute at University of Akron, based on the National Surveys of Religion and Politics. The premise: most political reporting acted as if there were two groups – the Religious Right and Everyone Else. So we crafted a new set of groupings, inspired by the twelve tribes of Biblical...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 10/01/2008
... the Religious Rigth is that, according to the Twelve Tribes study (based on a survey conducted by John Green of University of Akron), even the most observant religious folks are focused more on the economy and less on moral issues such as abortion and gay rights. Overall, just 13% of voters now listed moral issues as their primary concern, half the percentage who did in 2004. Even...
ganching (Free subscription) | 09/29/2008
... English, thank goodness: 'Welcome on board this short flight to Amsterdam. This is your captain, John Green.....'. I immediately breathed a sigh of relief. I know I shouldn't admit to this but somehow I always feel happier when the pilot driving my plane is a man and is not called Pedro or Mohammed. Any woman would feel safe in the hands of a man with a good Anglo-Saxon name like...
PowerBlog! (Free subscription) | 09/29/2008
... has plummeted to 46.8%, according to the National Survey of Religion and Politics conducted by John Green at the University of Akron. (By “traditional,” Mr. Green means those who attend church more and hold theologically traditional views).Look, too, at gay marriage. In 2004, white observant evangelicals and Catholics were kindred spirits: 90% of these evangelicals supported...
