{"id":5579,"date":"2016-02-29T16:01:13","date_gmt":"2016-02-29T23:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/americanbuddhist\/?p=5579"},"modified":"2016-02-29T16:01:13","modified_gmt":"2016-02-29T23:01:13","slug":"buddhist-political-leanings-in-the-american-presidential-race-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/americanbuddhist\/2016\/02\/buddhist-political-leanings-in-the-american-presidential-race-2016.html","title":{"rendered":"Buddhist political leanings in the American Presidential Race 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Last Thursday I created a short survey to gauge Buddhist<\/a> political leanings in this year\u2019s US Presidential race. As of today at noon MST the poll has closed and the results are in.<\/p>\n

First, a couple caveats about the poll and data collected.<\/p>\n

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  1. The poll is non-scientific. It is a voluntary online survey. It is entirely in English. It was posted on this site and promoted through facebook and twitter. So those who filled it out are likely to be followers\/readers of this blog and its associated social media. While I\u2019ve made efforts to broaden the\u00a0perspectives<\/em> represented here, we should not be surprised that the data reflects a largely white, male, middle class readership.<\/li>\n
  2. The poll was initially created on SurveyMonkey, which is an excellent site. However, it allows only 100 responses and very little export-access to the data, so the poll was quickly moved over to google forms, where an additional 269 submissions were gathered. The poll questions were identical, but certain breakdowns in data cannot be made as one would have desired (e.g. isolating for all female respondents or all responses from persons making under $50,000\/year).<\/li>\n
  3. The questions followed SurveyMonkey\u2019s suggestions for demographic information. I only included currently running Republican and Democratic candidates on the poll, with an option for other. Any question could be skipped.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    On to the data. <\/strong><\/p>\n

    First a summary of categories that were easily combined.<\/strong><\/p>\n

    Age.<\/strong> With 350 responses:<\/p>\n