Pew’s eight political types
Pew has divided up US voters into eight types. You can do their quiz to see which type you are. The types are:
- Solid Liberals –
- Faith and Family Left
- Next Generation Left
- Hard-Pressed Skeptics
- Young Outsiders
- Business Conservatives
- Steadfast Conservatives
- Bystanders
When it comes to the mid-terms, the groups most likely to vote are the Business Conservatives, Steadfast Conservatives and Solid Liberals. Hence Republicans are likely to do better as the first two groups vote Republican 88% and the last one is 88% Democrat.
I’m classified as a business conservative:
Business Conservatives generally are traditional small-government Republicans. Overwhelming percentages think that government is almost always wasteful and it does too much better left to businesses and individuals. Business Conservatives differ from Steadfast Conservatives in their positive attitudes toward business and in their strong support for Wall Street in particular. Most think that immigrants strengthen the country and take a positive view of U.S. global involvement. As a group, they are less socially conservative than Steadfast Conservatives.
Would be interesting to be able to divide NZ into political types. You need a lot of data to be able to do it well.