Top Question Tuesday, 5/29/09
Welcome to this week’s edition of Top Question Tuesday. Last week’s winning question asked about whether you believe your political ideology has become more liberal, has become more conservative, or has not changed over your lifetime. We’ll put this question on an upcoming interactive survey and blog about the results soon.
This week’s user-submitted survey questions are below. The questions are shortened to save space on our blog post, but these are the basic ideas. Take a look though and then vote for which question you’d most like to see on the next Zogby Interactive survey. As a reminder, if you’d like to submit a question to be considered for a Zogby survey, use the “contact us” box on the right of the page. And if you’d like to join Zogby’s interactive panel to answer questions similar to these, click here.
1. In general, which do you think is a better predictor of people’s ideology and voting habits: the ideology of their parents and immediate family, or encounters with other people and ideas outside of their immediate family?
2. How concerned would you be if funding decreased for your local public library?
3. Where do you get most of your information and news about national and government issues – print newspapers, online newspapers, television, radio, magazines, other internet news sites, blogs, or someplace else?
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I’d have to say one’s initial views come from family, teachers, etc. When younger, these will certainly be the most dominant ideas.
Hopefully the individuals have a certain amount of intellectual curiosity and honesty and are willing to learn more about the issues and challenges facing us now, so that they become informed voters instead of an automatic republican or democratic lever-puller.
Blue – Your statement is correct, unfortunately I’ve met too many people in my lifetime who votes or expouses a political philosophy at age 30+ because that is what Dad believed.