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What We Did
• IRB certification of all 34 students involved• Six individual groups involved• Analyzed every question in class• Promotion through social media, Daily
Nebraskan• Made survey available to all UNL students
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What we wanted to know:
• We sought to provide a snapshot of the political and campus landscape
• Campus attitudes• Nebraska issues• Political knowledge• Reaction to questions with different frames• Student stance on national issues• Elections
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What is the Husker Poll?
• Survey of 3352 UNL students to understand student stance on a number of issues on campus, state and national levels.
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What did we learn?
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Campus Survey Demographics
• 55% women, 45% men• 73% undergraduates, 27% graduate students• 70% born in Nebraska, 92% born in U.S.• 45% Republican, 42% Democrat, 13%
Independent• 37% liberal, 27% moderate, 36% conservative
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Campus issues
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Scale of 1 to 7, 7=strongly agree Student-Professor Relations
• Students, at undergraduate and graduate levels and regardless of political ideology, believe their professors are fair with them and provide an unbiased environment in which to learn.
• My professors try to make class a fair and unbiased place: mean score 5.79
• My professors grade students more harshly if they have different political beliefs: 1.18
• My professors don’t try to change students' political opinions to match their own: 5.54
• My professors treat students fairly: 6
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UNL Students on UNL to the Big 10 Conference
• 66% believe UNL joined due to a mix of academic and athletic reasons
• 82% strongly supported the move
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Student Involvement
• 38% of students study more than 10 hours a week. Only 1% say they never study
• 80% of students participate in at least 1 extra curricular activity, 28% do 3 or more.
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Student General Knowledge
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Which member of the House of Representativesrepresents UNL?(Jeff Fortenberry)# Answer Response %1 Mike Johanns 459 15%2 Jeff Fortenberry 1,475 50%3 Ben Nelson 614 21%4 Lee Terry 428 14%
Total 2,976 100%
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Who are Nebraska’s three members of the U.S. House of Representatives?(3)
# Answer Response %
1 Candice Miller, Ben Nelson, and Jeff Fortenberry
231 8%
2 Jeff Fortenberry, Lee Terry, and Mike Johanns
688 23%
3 Lee Terry, Jeff Fortenberry, and Adrian Smith
1,329 44%
4 Ben Nelson, Mike Johanns, and Lee Terry
716 24%
5 Bo Pelini, Tom Osborne, and Alex Henery
36 1%
Total 3,000 100%
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Who is UNL’s student body president?(Lane Carr)# Answer Response %1 Lane Carr 1,401 46%2 Matt Hilgenkamp 692 23%3 Jeff Lopez 430 14%4 Justin Solomon 498 16%
Total 3,021 100%
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Who is the Dean of Admissions at UNL? (Alan Cerveny)# Answer Response %1 Elbert Dickey 304 10%2 Alan Cerveny 1,848 61%3 Patrick Dussault 481 16%4 Joan Giesecke 388 13%
Total 3,021 100%
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Nebraska Issues
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Legal Drinking age
• Support for the legal drinking age to be loweredto 19 (38% of campus approved, but 44% of freshmen approved)
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Do you support Nebraska’s Fetal Pain Bill?
Do you support the defunding of Planned Parenthood?
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Experimental Questions
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UNL Rec Center
“Do you support the Campus Rec Renovations which will provide more exercise equipment for students to use?” 70% answered YES
• “Do you support Campus Rec renovations despite $20 million price tag?” 50% answered YES
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Wet Campus
• “Some people argue that if UNL became a wet campus, there would be more cases of alcohol poisoning because of the ease of availability of alcohol: do you support UNL becoming a ‘wet’ campus?” 50% YES
• “Some people argue that if UNL became a wet campus, there would be fewer cases of drunk driving because people could drink close to home: do you support UNL becoming a ‘wet’ campus?” 49% YES
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Health Care
• 40% support "Obamacare” • 40% support the Patient Protection and
Affordable Health Care Act
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National Issues, Leaders, & Group Favorability
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On a scale from 1-7 how do you approve of:(1=Strongly Disapprove/7=Strongly Approve)
Obama
Congress
Suprem
e Court
Harvey
Perlman
Bo Pelini
John Cook
Charlie
Shee
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Snooki
Michae
l Vick
Jon Stew
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Rush Lim
baugh
Lady G
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Wall
Stree
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Mike Jo
hanns
Ben Nels
on
Dave H
einem
an
Tea P
arty
Christian
s
Muslims
Atheists/
Agnosti
cs
Mitt Romney
Herman
Cain
Rick Perr
y1
2
3
4
5
6
7
Series1
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Occupy Wall Street Supporter’s Yearly Family Income
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Tea Party Supporters Yearly Family Income
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A Comparison of Group Makeup
• Tea Party Supporters • Occupy Wall Street Supporters
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National Issues
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Do you think that taxes should be raised on the wealthiest Americans?
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Do you think that taxes should be raised on the wealthiest Americans?
Tea Party Supporters Occupy Wall Street Supporters
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Who is most responsible for our economic situation (Conservative views)
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Who is most responsible for our economic situation (Moderate views)
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Who is most responsible for our current economic situation (Liberal views)
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2012 Elections
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2012 Presidential Election
• 37% Obama 26% Don't know 7% Romney 7% Paul 5% Cain 3% Gingrich 3% Perry
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Support of Ben Nelson Re-Election, Nebraska Voters Only
• 47% yes 25% no 29% don't know
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State GOP Senate Primary, Nebraska Voters Only
• 56% None of the above 25% Jon Bruning 7% Deb Fischer 6% Don Stenberg 3% Spencer Zimmerman 2% Pat Flynn
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Who do you prefer in the Republican senate primary in Nebraska?
• Tea Party Supporters • Occupy Wall Street Supporters
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Party Affiliation of Ben Nelson Supporters
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Voting over four years
• Did you vote in 2008?46% Yes 10 % No 44% Too Young
2010? 40% Yes 40% no 20% Too Young
83% plan to vote in 2012