I am putting together an article for The Friend reflecting on the presidential election for our British brothers and sisters. The point of the article is to reflect on the election from my standpoint as a Quaker, Evangelical and American. To that end I am interested in how other American Quakers (from all our groups) voted and am conducting a very informal poll on three questions: what Quaker group do you associate with, who you voted for, and what are four main issues that are important to you (see below for embedded form).
I would really appreciate all your involvement, but only Quakers please! Your names are not required, and will be kept completely confidential if you do post them. I will use the polling results for my article (and later post them here) to get a very crude estimate of where Quakers are at on the vote. The poll will end on the morning of has been extended to Monday evening November 10th. Thanks for helping out!
EDIT:
The poll has ended. Thank you to all who took the time and filled out the survey! We had 179 people respond. Watch the frontpage of gatheringinlight.com because I’ll be posting the data later this week.
EDIT #2:
The polling data is complete and has been posted here. Please pass it around to people who you know took the survey.
Related posts:
- How Quakers Voted in the 2008 Election
- Reader Poll: Sermon Texts on the Blog?
- About the Nuance of Voting Records
- Reader Poll: How Would Non-USA Voters Vote?
- Barclay Press: Convergent Friends and Quaker Renewal
Concerning “nuanced categories”
From the point of view of Friends in the eastcoast North American YM’s (NEYM, NYYM, PhYM, BYM, and CYM and Britain) equating “Liberal Friends” and “(Hicksite)” seems odd. A portion of the eastcoast MM’s are historically “Orthodox” from the nineteenth century and a portion are “Hicksite.” My MM (Germantown) split in the nineteenth century, keeping its Orthodox members, and a MM essentially across the street (Green St MM) absorbed its Hicksite members. Friend Anthony (above, here) is a member of a Meeting (Chestnut Hill MM) founded in the early twentieth century partly in an effort to allow the HIckites and Orthodox G’towners to join together in the same MM. (The history is a bit more complicated than described here.)
Anyway, it might be simpler to identify a broad category as “Liberal Friends” or “Unprogrammed Friends” and for now leave the nineteenth century terms “Hicksite” and “Orthodox” alone.
Just checking in to see if you’ve compiled the results yet and reading the great comments!
Hi Dave, thanks for checking back. I’m hoping that late tomorrow or Thursday I’ll have things up. I have all the information in a spreadsheet but I’m trying to boil it down into easily digestible nuggets of information, as well as some cool graphs. Both of those two things would be much easier if I actually knew how to use Excel to its fullest potential. Thus we’re stuck with me working in slow-motion.
[...] finally finished compiling the statistics from the poll we conducted here last week. When I initially posted the survey it hadn’t dawned on me that it would be me who had to [...]
For those of you waiting to see the outcome of the polls, I’ve posted them here http://tinyurl.com/5gf3ln