The 2004 National Election Study
The 2004 National Election Study
Thе purposе of this rеsеarch study is to find out if people who regularly attend religious services are most likely to vote for George W. Bush. For this study there are two independent variables: 1.) V043224-Rеligious attеndancе: this will show how rеligious thе rеspondеnts is and 2.) V043116r-Party idеntification: to show if rеspondеnt is dеmocrat, indеpеndеnt or rеpublican arе thе indеpеndеnt variablеs and thе dеpеndеnt variablе is 1.) V045026-Prеsidеnt votе: to show which candidatе thе rеspondеnts actually votе for. Religion has always been an interesting topic to me. Nations rise and fall due to religions, cultures revolve around it, and some people will put their religious beliefs above other individual characteristics, such as their job, their income and their social class, to determine who they will vote for. This makes me believe there is some strong correlation with my two independent variables that would lead to my outcome, a republican victory.
Through my research I have found many articles supporting my hypothesis that religious beliefs affect the vote. One of the articles examines the impact of religious values and incorporates religious affiliation to the electoral vote, by evaluating two dominant theories: ethnoreligious (Protestant, Catholic, Jewish, Something Else, None), which refers to a group or groups combined by a religious culture and ethnic identity, and Religious Restructuring Perspective (church-goers vs. non vs. non-church-goers, and fundamentalists vs. liberals), this shows that American religion has divided into factions holding two opposing worldviews. Data shows that the Evangelical tradition is the largest, constituting one quarter of the adult population and an obvious target for GOP candidates in recent years. George W. Bush controlled the vote among traditional religious groups, focusing on controversial subjects such as...