Saturday, March 03, 2007

Gallup Poll on Mormonism

Gallup has a new opinion poll out on Mormonism that delves into the statistics showing that more than a quarter of Americans will vote for an otherwise well-qualified presidential candidate who is a Mormon. The key findings are:
  • Americans who are more religious (as measured by frequency of church attendance) and those who are Protestant have highly negative views of the Mormon religion. The differences in views of Mormons among groups defined by their church attendance are significant. There is a net negative view of -21 points among Americans who attend church weekly, contrasted with a net positive view of +10 among those who seldom or never attend church.

  • Protestants are significantly more negative in their views than Catholics, who are the most positive group by religion.

  • There are minor partisan differences. Republicans are slightly more negative in their views of Mormons than are either independents or Democrats.

  • There is a major difference by ideological group. Liberals are extremely negative in their views on a relative basis; 28% have favorable opinions and 61% unfavorable opinions. By contrast, conservatives are essentially evenly divided in their views, while moderates break to the positive side, with 48% favorable and 40% unfavorable opinions.

  • Opinions of Mormons are better formed in the West, where the preponderance of Mormons live, and are slightly more positive than negative. Only 3% of those living in the West have no opinion whatever of Mormons.

Opinion of the Mormon Religion by Subgroup



Total
favor-
able

Total
unfavor-
able

Net
Favor-
able

Don't
know/
No
opinion



%

%

pct. pts.

%

Total sample


42

46

-4

11







Region

East

41

49

-8

11


Midwest

40

43

-3

18


South

40

46

-6

14


West

50

47

+3

3







Party

Republican

42

52

-10

5


Independent

43

40

+3

18


Democrat

43

47

-4

11







Ideology

Conservative

44

45

-1

10


Moderate

48

40

+8

13


Liberal

28

61

-33

11







Church attendance

Weekly

34

55

-21

11


Nearly weekly/
Monthly

41

47

-6

12


Seldom/
Never

49

39

+10

11







Religion

Total Christian

43

45

-2

11


Protestant

36

52

-16

13


Catholic

56

31

+25

12


Non-Christian

39

46

-7

15


None

39

46

-7

14

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