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The 2011 American Values Survey: The Mormon Question, Economic Inequality, and the 2012 Presidential Campaign
The 2011 American Values Survey: The Mormon Question, Economic Inequality, and the 2012 Presidential Campaign
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.

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Release dateJun 18, 2012
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The 2011 American Values Survey: The Mormon Question, Economic Inequality, and the 2012 Presidential Campaign
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Robert P. Jones

Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization dedicated to research at the intersection of religion, values, and public life. PRRI’s mission is to help journalists, opinion leaders, scholars, clergy, and the general public better understand debates on public policy issues and the role of religion and values in American public life by conducting high quality public opinion surveys and qualitative research. As members of the American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR), the American Political Science Association (APSA), and the American Academy of Religion (AAR), our research team follows the highest research standards of independence and academic excellence. PRRI is a member organization of the National Council on Public Polls, an association of polling organizations established in 1969, which sets the highest professional standards for public opinion researchers. PRRI is also a supporting organization of the Transparency Initiative at AAPOR, an initiative to place the value of openness at the center of the public opinion research profession. As a research organization, PRRI does not take positions on, nor do we advocate for, particular policies. Research supported by its funders reflects PRRI’s commitment to independent inquiry and academic rigor. Research findings and conclusions are never altered to accommodate other interests, including those of funders, other organizations, or government bodies and officials.

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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.

    copyright Public Religion Research Institute, Inc.

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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

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