NPR : a quick search through the responses

[thumbto]

6:52 CST searched 3,247 posts for instances of the following words in the whole page.

Take it for what it's worth... I was curious.. this is NOT scientific! in fact, it's one step up from reading tea leaves.


republican = 1,028
democrat = 462
independent = 160
libertarian = 341
mother = 215
father = 365
female = 267
male = 851
man = 1,425
woman = 78
military = 146
marine/marines = 57
army = 66
air force = 39
navy = 63
veteran = 124
black = 29
african =2
hispanic = 16
white = 118
asian = 16
hillary = 28
Clinton = 82
revolution = 182
guiliani = 6
romney = 20
huckabee = 15
tancredo = 0
obama = 31
christian = 185
agnostic = 22
atheist = 36
muslim = 12
buddhist = 8
student = 447
college = 419
artist = 51
professional = 76
business owner = 115
entrepreneur = 24
phd = 16
constitution = 997
texas = 121
neocon/neo-conservative = 22
irs = 663
"federal reserve" = 75
9/11 = 51
"patriot act" = 51
"children's future" = 8

apathy = 78
apathetic = 43
"never voted" = 138
disillusioned = 18

My reading is this:
watch out for the 50% of people who never vote!

[thumbto]

I posted this last night. The most interesting part to me is occurances of "never voted"

[Ethek]

There are more than a few insights to this.. thanks!

[Energy]

Nice analysis. What software did you use?

[steve005]

what about ron paul?

[thumbto]

Not really analysis. Just words that I thought would be meaningful.

I used very advanced statistical software: MS Word Find and Replace!

[lynnf]

6:52 CST searched 3,247 posts for instances of the following words in the whole page.

Take it for what it's worth... I was curious.. this is NOT scientific! in fact, it's one step up from reading tea leaves.


republican = 1,028
democrat = 462
independent = 160
libertarian = 341
mother = 215
father = 365
female = 267
male = 851
man = 1,425
woman = 78
military = 146
marine/marines = 57
army = 66
air force = 39
navy = 63
veteran = 124
black = 29
african =2
hispanic = 16
white = 118
asian = 16
hillary = 28
Clinton = 82
revolution = 182
guiliani = 6
romney = 20
huckabee = 15
tancredo = 0
obama = 31
christian = 185
agnostic = 22
atheist = 36
muslim = 12
buddhist = 8
student = 447
college = 419
artist = 51
professional = 76
business owner = 115
entrepreneur = 24
phd = 16
constitution = 997
texas = 121
neocon/neo-conservative = 22
irs = 663
"federal reserve" = 75
9/11 = 51
"patriot act" = 51
"children's future" = 8

apathy = 78
apathetic = 43
"never voted" = 138
disillusioned = 18

My reading is this:
watch out for the 50% of people who never vote!


ooh - that gave me a thought, maybe a "Marines for Ron Paul" site could be started. anybody able to host it?

lynn

[thumbto]

You can do your own interesting searches by copying the entire page into a word documents and then Find and Replace with the exact same word -->

Find "Patriot act"
Replace with "Patriot act"


it will tell you the number of times it replaced the string.

To find out how many posts there are, select something unique to the divider between posts. I used "2007" which should not occur too many times in people's responses.

[Voluntaryist]

I used very advanced statistical software: MS Word Find and Replace!

LOLZ

[tomveil]

Help the NPR article spawn a new site!

http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?t=62386

www.WeAreRonPaul.com will be up and ready to go soon! Submit your ideas now!

[FreedomWon]

republican = 1,028
democrat = 462
independent = 160
libertarian = 341
Wow! Does this mean that over 2000 entries (50%) are first time voters?
This is why it is critically important to canvas and get people commited to voting in the primaries.
I suggest that we don't even pay the slightest attention to the polls as the Old Media is totally rigged or they just don't have a clue.
Fifty percent of people who have never voted is huge as the opposition has no credible message to give the American people.
Be encouraged as this is only because of the grassroots efforts.
Right now they are shaking in their boots and are getting ready to attack like the dogs from hell.

[amy31416]

If you're looking for ideas, perhaps there could be an "all supporters" link or a categorized option of teachers, military, self-employed, healthcare workers, students, arts, businesspeople, homeschoolers, academics, .... etc.

[Dave Pedersen]

constitution = 997 wowser !!

[tomveil]

If you're looking for ideas, perhaps there could be an "all supporters" link or a categorized option of teachers, military, self-employed, healthcare workers, students, arts, businesspeople, homeschoolers, academics, .... etc.

Yes, that's a certainty. Being able to hear teachers talk about eduction, or troops talk about foriegn policy....pretty powerful stuff when it's personal!

[literatim]

Search for "Christian".

[thumbto]

Search for "Christian".


Christian = 173
Baptist = 11
Protestant = 7
God = 97
Jesus = 14


Remember, since this is free form input and not everyone answered questions like "what is your religion" this data can really only be used as a sign of relative usage, which doesn't amount to much scientifically, but I think it gives a very general idea of what is prevalent in people's minds.