Nadene Goldfoot
It's amazing that there are political differences relating to protecting oneself against the newly found virus that's killing so many, that of COVID 19. Trump wasn't backing the vaccine whole heartedly when the virus was found and facts about it were released to the populus. He didn't follow the guidelines about not meeting in groups or the wearing of masks that our scientists were relating to us.
California has had the most cases with 56,952 deaths. Worldwide, 2.68 million have died from it. 121 million cases have been recorded.
Mutations of the virus have been developing that are stronger. So far our vaccine is still a good protection against them.
Now it's being reported that there is an actual difference between the two political groups in accepting the vaccine as it has been shown to wearing masks in public. How can that be? Does this mean that the difference in viewing what a political party stands for also covers trust in vaccines or the need for them as well? As the deaths multiply, we're told to wear two masks at once.
Ages 65 and older are hit the hardest. Retirement homes are hit the most. I was 85 last year in 2020 when we were first aware of such a danger. Yesterday I had my 2nd vaccine follow-up. COVID 19 is hitting the whole world. This virus is attacking EARTH, and the deaths are happening in great numbers . It makes the flu epidemic of 1917 look like peanuts, but of course those earlier people had nothing to fight the virus with, and we are more advanced.
About 1,500 people in the U.S. are still dying every day. Old people have the worst immune system, and we have plenty of things wrong with us now, like many of us take pills for our heart. We are all on Medicare. Most of us are not putting money back into the system; we're finally receiving it and using that money. As for our value to the USA now as seniors, our value peaks at US$12.3 million for people aged 20 to 44 and declines until it reaches $5.3 million for those 65 and up.
A survey in 2018 found : that the only group voting Republican by a majority are those 65 and older.
The survey by AP Votecast, reported by The Wall Street Journal, found that 49 percent of voters 65 and older voted Republican this election cycle, compared to 48 percent who voted Democrat. Those 65 and older accounted for 26 percent of total voters in the survey. So it's almost even in the 65 and older group of being Republican or Democrat.
Fifty-one percent of voters ages 40 to 49 voted Democrat, while 43 percent voted Republican; 56 percent of those 30–39 went Democrat, while 37 percent backed Republicans; and 58 percent of people 25–29 years old went for Democrats, while 34 percent voted Republican.
Sixty-three percent of those ages 18 to 24 voted Democrat, compared to 30 percent who voted Republican. Those young voters accounted for 6 percent of voters surveyed in the poll. The younger they got, they were voting Democrat.
Voters over the age of 60 accounted for 39.4 percent of all voters during the 2014 midterm elections, while those ages 45 to 49 made up 30.3 percent of the total.
26% of Jews are Republicans . 64% are Democrats, but Jews only make up 2% of the USA population. 9% have no preference.
70% of Mormons are Republicans. 19% are Democrats.
44% of mainline Protestants are Republicans, 40% are Democrats.
10% of Black Protestants are Republicans, 80% of Black Protestants are Democrats, 10% neither
56% of Evangelical Protestants are Republicans, 28% of Democrats, 16% neither. Evangelical leaders in the US have helped sow distrust in public health professionals — and COVID-19 vaccines. But some church leaders within the ranks are confronting the resistance amid the coronavirus pandemic. Many evangelical Christians — a loosely defined group of mostly doctrinally conservative Protestants — have been fractured by myths about the COVID-19 vaccine and the pandemic. Critics have accused right-wing fundamentalist pastors of perpetuating baseless theories that encourage their flock to ignore public health data and experts fighting the coronavirus. Some unfounded claims include the assertion that the vaccine is the mark of the beast, or will cause sterilization in women. "There is a suspicion that it (the coronavirus) is not real. They are stepping further and further away from reality," says Mark Labberton, president of the Fuller Seminary, an evangelical Christian seminary in California. With global leaders and governments starting to approve and distribute vaccines, that misinformation could complicate the efforts of public health professionals urging people to get vaccinated. Followers of Billy Graham are a good example, though what party he belongs to is not known. Many presidents held him in high esteem.
37% of Catholics are Republicans, 44% are Democrats, 19% neither
A recent CBS News poll found 34% of Republicans say they will not be vaccinated against the coronavirus. Independents aren't too far behind, with 30% refusing the shots, while only 10% of Democrats say they'll abstain. Republicans are the least likely to say "yes," they will get the vaccine or "already did" — 42% — compared to 46% of independents and 70% of Democrats.
College is affecting whether or not a student comes out as Republican or Democrat with many professors leaning towards the Democratic side. A 2018 Pew Research Center survey took a deeper dive into the reasons for these shifting views. The survey first asked whether the higher education system in the U.S. is generally going in the right or wrong direction. A majority of Americans (61%) say it’s going in the wrong direction. Republicans and Republican leaners are significantly more likely to express this view than Democrats and Democratic leaners (73% vs. 52%).
AGES AND DEMOGRAPHICS
The Northeast had a higher percentage at the older ages, while the West had a higher percentage at the younger ages. In the four census regions, the region with the oldest median age was the Northeast (39.2), followed by the Midwest (37.7), the South (37.0), and the West (35.6).4 Table 3 shows the variation in the distribution of population across 4 The Northeast region includes Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Vermont. The Midwest includes Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, and Wisconsin. The South includes Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, the District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and West Virginia. The West includes Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming.
Republicans hold wide advantages in party identification among several groups of voters, including white men without a college degree, people living in rural communities in the South and those who frequently attend religious services. Republicans have leads among whites – particularly white men, those with less education and evangelical Protestants – as well as members of the Silent Generation. The Silent Generation is the demographic cohort following the Greatest Generation and preceding the baby boomers. The generation is generally defined as people born from 1928 to 1945. By this definition and U.S. Census data, there were 23 million Silents in the United States as of 2019; in other words, Seniors from 76 to 93 years old. I'm a part of the Silent Generation. Ha! I haven't been very silent.
Democrats hold formidable advantages among a contrasting set of voters, such as black women, residents of urban communities in the Northeast and people with no religious affiliation. Democrats hold advantages in party identification among blacks, Asians, Hispanics, well-educated adults and Millennials.
A new analysis by Pew Research Center of long-term trends in party affiliation – based on surveys conducted among more than 360,000 registered voters over the past 25 years, including more than 12,000 in 2018 and 2019 – finds only modest changes in recent years.
Overall, 34% of registered voters identify as independents, 33% as Democrats and 29% as Republicans. The share of voters identifying as Republicans is now the same as it was in 2016, after having ticked down in 2017; Democratic identification is unchanged. Slightly fewer voters identify as independents than in 2017 (34% vs. 37%). See detailed tables.
Most independents lean toward one of the major parties (leaners tend to vote and have similar views as those who identify with a party), and when the partisan leanings of independents are taken into account, 49% of registered voters identify as Democrats or lean Democratic, while 44% affiliate with the GOP or lean Republican.
Though the government would expect everyone to take the vaccine, many refuse. Title VII requires employers to provide exemptions and accommodations for employees who raise objections to receiving employer-mandated vaccines based on their sincerely held religious beliefs. They can use religion as the basis of their refusal.
Distrust of the Democratic Party includes distrust of the vaccine. More Democrats demand more from the government so are happy with the vaccine. I have a neighbor, a senior, born in a European country, little education, a Republican, affiliated with a small Christian religious group, who will not get the vaccination. She doesn't trust it. However, that's only one person out of many.
Being Our Earth is in a state of attack by mother nature with this virus, I believe the government is doing what they should be doing to protect us. It has taken all the scientists of the earth to fight this challenge to life. I used to be a Democrat, and for the past 12 years have been a Republican-but then I'm a member of the Silent Generation, too, and I'm more than a college graduate. We've seen a lot of history.
There are several differences between the Republicans and the Democrats involving religion, ages, place they live, education and sex. These Parties have evolved, too.
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