The 2011 American Values Survey: The Mormon Question, Economic Inequality, and the 2012 Presidential Campaign
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Move beyond the rhetoric and find out where Americans really stand at the intersection of religion and politics. The Public Religion Research Institute's 2011 American Values Survey takes America's temperature on the 2012 presidential campaign, the country's comfort with a Mormon serving as president, and the general public's stance on economic and social inequality.
Robert P. Jones
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The 2011 American Values Survey - Robert P. Jones
The 2011 American Values Survey:
The Mormon Question, Economic Inequality, and the 2012 Presidential Campaign
Analysis by Robert P. Jones, Ph.D., and Daniel Cox
Copyright 2011 Public Religion Research Institute, Inc.
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Acknowledgements
Public Religion Research Institute is deeply grateful to the Ford Foundation and the Nathan Cummings Foundation for their generous support of the 2011 American Values Survey. The findings and analysis in this report are the responsibility of the authors alone and do not necessarily represent the views of the Ford Foundation or the Nathan Cummings Foundation. The authors would also like to thank PRRI Research Assistant Samantha Holquist for research assistance, Online Communications and Projects Associate Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux for editorial assistance, Camden Richards for graphic design, and PRRI Press Secretary Shannon Craig Straw for providing meticulous proofreading of the final document.
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Table of Contents
Executive Summary
Religion, Values and the 2012 Election
The Obama Presidency
American Values and the Economy
Appendix 1. Survey Methodology
Appendix 2. Selected Sample Sizes for American Values Survey
About Public Religion Research Institute
Executive Summary
Two-thirds of voters say that it is very important (39%) or somewhat important (28%) for a presidential candidate to have strong religious beliefs. However, roughly 1-in-5 (19%) voters say they would be less likely to vote for a candidate who had strong religious beliefs if those beliefs were very different from their own.
A majority of voters (53%) report that they would be somewhat or very comfortable with a Mormon serving as President, although more than 4-in-10 (42%) say that a Mormon president would make them somewhat or very uncomfortable.
Significantly more Democratic voters (50%) report feeling at least somewhat uncomfortable with a Mormon serving as president than Republican voters (36%) or Independent voters (38%).
Millennial voters (age 18-29) are less comfortable than senior voters (age 65 and over) with a Mormon serving as president. A majority (54%) of Millennial voters say they would be at least somewhat uncomfortable with a Mormon serving as president, compared to less than 4-in-10 (39%) of senior voters.
A List Experiment included