Iraq war & income
Further to Lenin’s Tomb’s query…
Jeff Stonecash has an interesting paper at
income classes on Iraq, He’s at Syracuse and easy to find so I’m sure
he could give you more info. He also offers evidence countering the
standard line that the differences between the two parties have
narrowed; by his measures, they’ve never been so wide.
And there’s this:
http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p17187_index.html
Diefenbach, D. and West, M. Support for the War in Iraq: American
Casualties as a Survey Item Paper presented at the annual meeting of
the American Association For Public Opinion Association,
Fontainebleau Resort, Miami Beach, FL
from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p17187_index.html
Publication Type: Paper/Poster Proposal
Abstract: Support for the war in Iraq has proven difficult to
quantify, with respondents often reporting substantial ambivalence if
not confusion concerning their opinions re the further prosecution of
the war. In an effort to understand the characteristics of those who
support further prosecution of the war, and to understand better the
nature of their support, a regional random-digit dialed telephone
survey applying a willingness-to-pay question to Iraqi war costs was
conducted in the first two weeks of October in the Western counties
of North Carolina. The survey used a next-birthday method for within-
household respondent selection. A total of 493 complete interviews
were conducted, with an AAPOR cooperation rate 1 of .48 and a contact
rate 2 of .43. Seventy-eight percent of respondents said that they
would support no more deaths of U.S. soldiers in Iraq, even after the
explanatory introduction to the survey question. Fifteen percent of
respondents said they would support any number of deaths in order to
fulfill the U.S. mission in Iraq, while 7 % said they would support
some intermediate number of deaths, with a modal value of about 100
deaths. A nonlinear regression model was constructed using respondent
characteristics to predict the number of U.S. deaths the respondents
would find tolerable. Age, income, education, gender, race, newspaper
readership, television viewership, and party affiliation were all
found to be significant predictors of the number of deaths the
respondent would tolerate; the model R2 was .21, and the model was
significant at the .01 level. Respondents who were older, watched
less television, who were male, had higher income and educational
levels, and were white were significantly more likely to support
higher levels of U.S. casualties than were other respondents.