{"id":7537,"date":"2009-03-09T20:09:09","date_gmt":"2009-03-10T01:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=7537"},"modified":"2010-12-23T04:00:44","modified_gmt":"2010-12-23T09:00:44","slug":"income-and-2008-presidential-voting-patterns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2009\/03\/09\/income-and-2008-presidential-voting-patterns\/","title":{"rendered":"Income and 2008 Presidential Voting Patterns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew over at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fivethirtyeight.com\/2009\/03\/how-went-2008-election-looking-only-at.html\">FiveThirtyEight<\/a> posted three maps that show which candidate would have carried each state if only members of one social class voted (in case it&#8217;s not obvious, blue = Obama and red = McCain):<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7538 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2009\/03\/pewmaps.png\" alt=\"pewmaps\" width=\"400\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2009\/03\/pewmaps.png 400w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2009\/03\/pewmaps-133x300.png 133w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>For the purposes of the estimate, &#8220;rich&#8221; was defined as a household income of $150,000+, &#8220;middle-income&#8221; was $40,000-75,000, and &#8220;poor&#8221; was $0-20,000. [Note: for the point of illustration, he just made maps showing the lowest, middle, and upper 20% of households by income, which is why the groups between $20,000-39,000 and $76,000-150,000 don&#8217;t show up here&#8211;he just made the 3 maps to illustrate the point.]<\/p>\n<p>So what we seem to see here is that poor voters were more consistently partisan than rich voters, at least in the 2008 election. Whether this is a general pattern or something unique to 2008 I don&#8217;t know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew over at FiveThirtyEight posted three maps that show which candidate would have carried each state if only members of one social class voted (in case it&#8217;s not obvious, blue = Obama and red = McCain): For the purposes of the estimate, &#8220;rich&#8221; was defined as a household income of $150,000+, &#8220;middle-income&#8221; was $40,000-75,000, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[29,1826,85,238],"class_list":["post-7537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-class","tag-geographymaps","tag-politics","tag-election-2008"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7537"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31387,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7537\/revisions\/31387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}