{"id":6144,"date":"2016-09-04T21:03:31","date_gmt":"2016-09-05T03:03:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/americanbuddhist\/?p=6144"},"modified":"2016-09-04T21:10:53","modified_gmt":"2016-09-05T03:10:53","slug":"buddhist-politics-a-reader-survey-september","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/americanbuddhist\/2016\/09\/buddhist-politics-a-reader-survey-september.html","title":{"rendered":"Buddhist Politics: A Reader Survey (September)"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>It\u2019s time once again for our monthly survey of <a href='https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/library\/buddhism' target='_blank'>Buddhist<\/a> political affiliations. It has been a\u2026 well\u2026 interesting month following the conventions \u2013 which I mostly missed as I was in China at the time. Clinton received a solid post-convention boost in most polls, getting into double-digit leads at times over the struggling Trump who was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2016\/07\/20\/politics\/ted-cruz-republican-convention-moment\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">snubbed by one of his own convention speakers<\/a>, former rival Ted Cruz. Since then, a number of Republicans have come out against Trump, so many, in fact, that it\u2019s hard to keep track. Luckily <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/archive\/2016\/09\/where-republicans-stand-on-donald-trump-a-cheat-sheet\/481449\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">the Atlantic has been doing their best to keep tabs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile Clinton\u2019s support has also been falling with various groups. Most recent among them, women (so many <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2016\/feb\/06\/madeleine-albright-campaigns-for-hillary-clinton\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">\u201cspecial places in Hell\u201d<\/a> I suppose). Albright soon after <a href=\"http:\/\/time.com\/4220323\/madeleine-albright-place-in-hell-remark-apology\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">apologized for that comment<\/a>, but it is one that lives on in the hearts of many of my liberal female friends. Picking up on a similar meme, one twitter commenter wrote:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Less than 1\/2 of American women now support <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HillaryClinton\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">@HillaryClinton<\/a>. Who knew so many women were secretly sexist BernieBros? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Qc7eC2ixcj\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/Qc7eC2ixcj<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jeff Faria (@PatriotsOfMars) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PatriotsOfMars\/status\/772605227581210628\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">September 5, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>And now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/09\/05\/us\/politics\/young-blacks-voice-skepticism-on-hillary-clinton-worrying-democrats.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">young black voters have this to say<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"196\" data-total-count=\"196\">When a handful of liberal advocacy organizations convened a series of focus groups with young black voters last month, the assessments of Donald J. Trump were predictably unsparing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"117\" data-total-count=\"313\">But when the participants were asked about Hillary Clinton, their appraisals were just as blunt and nearly as biting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"176\" data-total-count=\"489\">\u201cWhat am I supposed to do if I don\u2019t like him and I don\u2019t trust her?\u201d a millennial black woman in Ohio asked. \u201cChoose between being stabbed and being shot? No way!\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Meanwhile, Libertarian Gary Johnson has seen a noteworthy boost in the polls, from under 5% in mid-June to nearly 10% in recent weeks. Jill Stein, the Green Party candidate, has not been so successful, hovering around 3% through August according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/epolls\/2016\/president\/us\/general_election_trump_vs_clinton_vs_johnson_vs_stein-5952.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Real Clear Politics poll averages<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Readers here who showed much stronger support for Bernie Sanders (who is now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/nation\/politics\/trailguide\/la-na-trailguide-updates-sanders-to-campaign-for-clinton-hopes-1473012450-htmlstory.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">on the campaign trail for Clinton<\/a>) in earlier months\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/americanbuddhist\/2016\/08\/buddhist-political-preferences-reader-poll-july-aug-reporting.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\">have given much of their support to Stein and Clinton<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/americanbuddhist\/2016\/08\/buddhist-political-preferences-reader-poll-july-aug-reporting.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\">Last month<\/a>, Trump even trailed Gary Johnson among those who answered the survey.<\/p>\n<p>With that, we open our September survey:<br>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLSff6JNy9QM2e9t__krivyG1uiBvPIIGi60Jq4k8QbW0Gv26yw\/viewform?embedded=true\" width=\"600\" height=\"500\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\">Loading\u2026<\/iframe><br>\nIf you are having trouble seeing the form, click here: <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLSff6JNy9QM2e9t__krivyG1uiBvPIIGi60Jq4k8QbW0Gv26yw\/viewform\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLSff6JNy9QM2e9t__krivyG1uiBvPIIGi60Jq4k8QbW0Gv26yw\/viewform<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And from the International Campaign for Tibet, a petition to <a href=\"http:\/\/Tell%20whoever%20lives%20here%20next%20to%20make%20Tibet%20a%20priority!\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">\u201ctell whoever lives [in the White House] next to make Tibet a priority<\/a>.\u201d Poll will remain open until Sept 10; results to be posted Sept 12.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s time once again for our monthly survey of Buddhist political affiliations. It has been a\u2026 well\u2026 interesting month following the conventions \u2013 which I mostly missed as I was in China at the time. 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