1. Quaker Voting Poll 2008 www.gatheringinlight.com

2. How Quakers Voted in 2008 181 Reporting Poll ran November 6-10, 2008 Visit initial post at http://tinyurl.com/5q5re6 Some analysis in The Friend Nov. 13, 2008 3. Purpose The purpose of the poll was to see if Quakers voted similarly to national trends, how the various branches voted, what the top issues were, and if their faith orientation (Christian, Universalist, Non-theist) played a role in how they voted. 4. A List of the Questions 5. Questions What is your Friends association? * Evangelical Friends (Gurneyite) Liberal Friends (Hicksite) Conservative Friends (Wilburite) Beanite Friends Independent Friends Other: 6. Questions Who did you vote for? McCain-Palin Obama-Biden Third Party Didn't vote for faith reasons Didn't vote for personal reasons 7. Questions Please select four issues Healthcare that went into your nal decision. Character War Faith Economics Party Afliation Energy/Environment Race Abortion Experience Equal Rights Foreign Policy Immigration Individual Liberty Education Transparency Other: 8. Questions Do you consider yourself a convergent Friend? Not required to answer Yes No A What? 9. Questions Basis of Your Faith Christian Post-Christian Universalist Non-Theist Other: 10. Summary Who Turned Out to VoteTop 5 Voting Issues Liberal - 46% War - 26% Evangelical - 26% Energy/Environment - 22% Beanite - 10% Economics - 20% Conservative - 7% Healthcare - 19% Independent - 6% Character - 14% Other - 5%Basis of Faith for Voters Who Quakers Voted For Christian - 132 Obama/Biden - 83% Universalist - 23 McCain-Palin - 9% Post-Christian - 12 Third-Party - 3%Convergent Friends? No Vote b/c Faith - 3% Yes - 40% No Vote b/c personal - 2% No - 16% A What? - 31% 11. Polls 12. Compare SojournersElection Issues Poll(11.04) 13. For more go to http://tinyurl.com/64v6gk 14. Compare NY TimesExit Polls 15. For more go to http://tinyurl.com/6hl23z 16. Graphs Relating to How Quakers Voted in 2008 17. Who Voted? EvangelicalLiberal Conservative Independent BeaniteOther5% 10% 26%6%7%46% 18. How They Voted ObamaMcCain Third PartyDidnt Vote For Faith Reasons Didnt Vote for Personal Reasons 2% 3%3%9%83% 19. Who Did the Groups Vote For? Obama McCain Third Party Didnt Vote For Faith Reasons Didnt Vote for Personal Reasons.00.25.50.75 0 EvangelicalLiberalConservative Independent BeaniteOther 20. Who Did the Groups Vote For?Evangelical Liberal Conservative IndependentBeanite Other No Vote - PersonalNo Vote - FaithThird Party McCainObama 0 37.575.0 112.5 150.0 21. Key Voting Issues to Quakers14%26%19%22% 20% War Energy/Environment Economics Healthcare Character 22. The 15 Issues Important to Quakers 150.0112.5 75.0 37.5 02008 WarEnergy/Environment Economics Healthcare CharacterForeign Policy Equal rights EducationFaith Transparency Abortion Party Affiliation Experience Individual Liberty Immigration 23. Top 10 Voting Issues to Quakers3% 3% 4% 19% 4%6% 6% 16%10% 14% 14%War Energy/EnvironmentEconomics HealthcareCharacter Foreign Policy Equal rightsEducation Abortion Faith Party Affiliation*Healthcare and Education were tied for the tenth spot 24. Basis of Voters Faith Christian Unversalist Post-Christian Non-Theists 150.0112.5 75.0 37.5 0Quakers Voting 2008 25. Convergent Friends? Yes NoA What? No Answer13%40% 31%16% 26. WarEnergy/Environment Economics Healthcare CharacterAbortion Foreign Policy Equal Rights Education ImmigrationParty AffiliationExperience FaithIndv. LibertyTransparency Hope 55.0041.2527.5013.75 0 Evangelicals (54)Conservatives (10) Liberals (71) Independent (10) Beanite (16) 27. Evangeical (54)Liberal (71) 80 60 40 200War Energy/Env EconHealth Character F.Policy Abortion Eq.Rights Party EduVote percentages out of 100% 28. Conservatives (10) Independent (10) Beanite (16) 85.0063.7542.5021.25 0 War Econ HealthEnergy/Env Char Edu F.Policy Eq.Rights Faith Abortion Immig.Vote percentages out of 100% 29. WarEnergy/Environment EconomicsHealthcare CharacterAbortionForeign Policy Equal Rights EducationImmigrationParty AffiliationExperienceFaithIndv. LibertyTransparencyHope 30.022.515.0 7.50 Evangelicals (54) 30. Top 10 Evangelical Voting Issues War Energy/EnvironmentEconomics HealthcareCharacter Abortion Foreign PolicyEducation Experience Transparency4% 4% 15%5%6%15% 9%14% 16% 13% 31. Energy/Environment CharacterWarEconomicsForeign Policy FaithHealthcare Abortion HopeEqual Rights EducationImmigrationParty AffiliationExperience Indv. LibertyTransparency 5.003.752.501.250 Conservatives (10) 32. Top 9 Conservative Voting Issues Energy/Environment CharacterWar Economics Foreign Policy FaithHealthcareAbortion Hope4% 4% 7% 18% 11% 18% 11%14%14%There were only nine that received votes 33. War Energy/Environment Economics HealthcareCharacterForeign Policy Equal RightsParty AffiliationEducation Indv. Liberty Transparency Abortion Faith Hope Immigration Experience 55.0041.2527.5013.75 0 Liberals (71) 34. Top 10 Liberal Voting Issues WarEnergy/Environment Economics Healthcare CharacterForeign Policy Equal Rights Party AffiliationEducation Indv. Liberty3% 3%4% 23% 6%8%10% 16%14% 14% 35. War Energy/Environment Economics HealthcareEqual Rights Education Character Foreign Policy Faith TransparencyAbortion Immigration Party Affiliation Experience Indv. Liberty Hope 86420 Independent (10) 36. Top 10 Independent Voting Issues War Energy/Environment Economics HealthcareEqual Rights Education Character Foreign Policy Faith Transparency5% 2%5% 19%7% 10%17% 10% 12% 14% 37. Economics Healthcare War Energy/EnvironmentCharacterEducation Immigration Foreign Policy Equal Rights Party Affiliation FaithTransparency AbortionExperience Indv. Liberty Hope 15.0011.25 7.50 3.75 0Beanite (16) 38. Top 9 Beanite Voting Issues EconomicsHealthcare War Energy/Environment CharacterEducation ImmigrationForeign Policy Equal Rights Party AffiliationFaithTransparency2% 2%2% 5%5%21%6% 6% 6%18%11%16% Party Afliation, Faith and Transparency all received one vote