IHSS Blog 2020-2021

  Overall, the biggest group of respondents were female Democrats. I believe this result can be explained fairly easily by looking at the methods of dissemination used and the demographics of our general area. Houston itself has always tended to vote Democratic, even when Texas itself does not. Those who responded that they identified with the Democratic party were not all female, though. The majority of men selected that option, albeit at a lesser rate than women. As for the main reasons why women tend to vote Democrat, that’s pretty straightforward. The Republican party’s platform doesn’t support women’s rights. For example, in 1980 Ronald Reagan endorsed bills that blocked women’s abortion rights. The Democratic party has capitalized on this flaw in the opposing platform by taking stances that are in staunch support of the progression of women’s rights. As for the survey itself, there are a few things we could have done to make it more fine-tuned. The punctuation and capitalizat...

after looking through the poll, there is some clear evidence of similarities in voting choices. as seen in the age section, most of the voters are within the 18-25 year range or the 46-55. from this, you can conclude that the younger ranges are most likely student's older siblings or friends and the other data is most likely parents. with the votes from the younger age group has primarily democratic values and votes, and is mostly in support of different things like the blm movement, free healthcare, and lgbtq+ activism. the older age group tends to be a bit more conservative, republican. as a whole, there is little to no opposition to the blm movement, but much of the "i support, but do not participate" i think this is because the older age group does not find the movement as vital to our society as the younger group does. another thing to notice is that the gender section is primarily female, which is definitely something to pay attention to. you can also see that the l...

This survey had a lot of interesting data that analyzes current issues in our government system and society. I find it interesting how 56% of the poll-takers identified as caucasian and a total of 64% of the poll-takers agree that President Donald Trump has responded to the protests was wrong. This shows a lot of progress America has made over the years especially in the white community. Also, 42.5% of poll takers believe in the Black Lives Matter movement. The caucasian poll-takers played a big role in that statistic since they are the majority of the poll-takers. The amount of people who believe in BLM but don’t take part in activism is quite large. The number is about 30%. I believe this is due to the fact that the BLM movement doesn’t have the interest of white people and Asian people since it only stands to make a difference for African Americans. This concerns me because if many people believe in this movement but only a few partake in activism, the movement won’t have much of a ...

       After reviewing the survey, something that stood out to me was that there were more women that took the survey than men (54% women). Also, more participants said they affiliate with the Democratic party than Republican or any other (59.5% Democrat). My theory is that gender and political party correlate with each other. According to the website  Gallup News , women from the ages of 18 to 85 are more likely to vote Democrat than men of the same age. Gallup News also says that this is regardless of all major racial and ethnic groups of society. This is according to an analysis and study of 150,000 interviews.       I also believe that there is a correlation between political party and LGBTQ rights. From what I have seen and heard, the Democratic party and parties that affiliate with the Democratic party are more invested in social issues and furthering equality. For example the Democratic Party Platform released a quote saying; " Democr...

With what party do you most affiliate? VS. Coronavirus-related Issues  One thing I found most interesting about the survey was the Party opinions versus opinions on Coronavirus. The majority of people that took this survey but still a big percentage of people were republican. Some were other parties such as Green or Libertarian but only a very small percentage. I think that there were lots of votes for agreeing with a mandated vaccine, lots of votes for increasing taxes for free vaccines, and lots of votes for government-mandated masks because there was a large percentage of democratic participants. More often than usual Democrats are more open to or push for fighting coronavirus. You can see how many more people who participated in this survey are inclined to want to stop the virus especially in the last question with many votes for strongly agreeing with government-mandated masks. I found it quite strange that for the questions about mandated vaccines and to impose taxes for a fr...

Charlie Brisch Mr. Roddy 11/16/20 Voting Survey Analysis     So I think that people's political party view effected their views on LGBTQ+ issues. If you look at the pie chart, around 64% chose left-wing views, then if you look at the section about LGBTQ+ issues, usually over 64% voted for a positive side for the choices. Even some of the remaining right-wing views obviously chose a positive position for the choices on LGBTQ+ issues. Some people did not have a view on this and they did not answer, meaning we cannot have the most accurate results. If we look at the results, you can see even if people had chosen a right-wing political party view, some still chose basic human rights. This still goes along with what my parents told me, most people are socially liberal, fiscally conservative. This means that they thing everyone should have equal rights but also want an even economy. This might be a unique to Houston area voters though. I think we could have improved this poll by mak...

  Emilio San Vicente HISS  Mr. Roddy Nov 16th Analyzing Voting Survey      I will like to start with which party do you like the most and also I want to touch a little bit the topic of vaccines. Well, the democrat party was about almost 60%, actually 59.5%. The Republican party had 19%. Now, about the vaccine I actually thought that democrats were actually the ones leading this voting survey but after analysing a little bit, I realized that I was almost right with this way of thinking and  this is because if you noticed this results: 26.2% strongly agreed, 29.4% agreed, 18.3% disagreed, 12.7% actually strongly disagread. With this being set, I personally think that no matter if you are a democrat or not, every decision that is put about the vaccine is different. For example some democrats agreed and some republicans also agreed about getting a vaccine. I think that this part of the analysis was important because people can notice that a specific party will ...