Tumbleweed
08-19-2007, 04:12 AM
American Muslim voters
I posted this on another board, but I thought I'd post it here to see what everyone thought about it
This is the results of a poll on American Muslim voters. I think our society could use a few tips from their lifestyle. The Democrats should like this poll.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations. (CAIR) Research Center did it's first scientific survey of American Muslim voters.A sample of 1,000 respondents was drawn through a randomization procedure from a database of nearly 400,000 American Muslim voters.
American Muslim voter sample characteristics:
• Young: About 47% are in the 35-54 age group; another 20% are in the 25-34 age group.
• Highly educated: 62% have obtained a bachelor degree or higher. This is double the comparable national figure for registered voters.
• Professional: About 50% are professionals.
• Middle class: 43% have a household income of $50,000 or higher.
• Family oriented: 78% are married. Of those, 83% have one or more children.
• Religiously diverse: Only 31% attend a mosque on a weekly basis; 16% attend once or twice a month; 27% said they seldom or never attend. The largest segment of the respondents said they consider themselves “just Muslims,” avoiding distinctions like Sunni or Shia. Another 36% said they are Sunni and 12% said they are Shia. Less than half of 1% said they are Salafi, while 2% said they are Sufi.
• Integrated in American society: 89% said they vote regularly; 86% said they celebrate the Fourth of July; 64% said they fly the U.S. flag; 42% said they volunteer for institutions serving the public (compared to 29% nationwide in 2005).
• Democratic or independent: There is no clear majority in party membership: 42% said they consider themselves members of the Democratic Party; 17% said they are Republican; 28% said they do not belong to any party.
Source (http://www.cair-net.org/pdf/American_Muslim_Voter_Survey_2006.pdf)
I posted this on another board, but I thought I'd post it here to see what everyone thought about it
This is the results of a poll on American Muslim voters. I think our society could use a few tips from their lifestyle. The Democrats should like this poll.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations. (CAIR) Research Center did it's first scientific survey of American Muslim voters.A sample of 1,000 respondents was drawn through a randomization procedure from a database of nearly 400,000 American Muslim voters.
American Muslim voter sample characteristics:
• Young: About 47% are in the 35-54 age group; another 20% are in the 25-34 age group.
• Highly educated: 62% have obtained a bachelor degree or higher. This is double the comparable national figure for registered voters.
• Professional: About 50% are professionals.
• Middle class: 43% have a household income of $50,000 or higher.
• Family oriented: 78% are married. Of those, 83% have one or more children.
• Religiously diverse: Only 31% attend a mosque on a weekly basis; 16% attend once or twice a month; 27% said they seldom or never attend. The largest segment of the respondents said they consider themselves “just Muslims,” avoiding distinctions like Sunni or Shia. Another 36% said they are Sunni and 12% said they are Shia. Less than half of 1% said they are Salafi, while 2% said they are Sufi.
• Integrated in American society: 89% said they vote regularly; 86% said they celebrate the Fourth of July; 64% said they fly the U.S. flag; 42% said they volunteer for institutions serving the public (compared to 29% nationwide in 2005).
• Democratic or independent: There is no clear majority in party membership: 42% said they consider themselves members of the Democratic Party; 17% said they are Republican; 28% said they do not belong to any party.
Source (http://www.cair-net.org/pdf/American_Muslim_Voter_Survey_2006.pdf)