Nearly Half of Gen Z Is Lying About Their Vote: Poll
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As many members of Gen Z are voting for the first time, nearly half claim to have lied about who they voted for. Why is this?
From The Christian Post. Nearly half of Gen Z voters in the United States, the youngest voting demographic, have lied about who they supported in the presidential election, according to a recent survey.
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A report released Wednesday on the latest Axios Vibes survey by The Harris Poll found that 48% of voters aged 18-27 admitted to lying to people about who they voted for, with Gen Zers being the generation most likely to admit this.
Millennials, the term referring to voters between the ages of 28-43, were the second-most likely to say they lied to people about who they voted for. Thirty-eight percent of millennials told Axios and Harris that they did so. By contrast, 17% of Gen Xers and 6% of baby boomers and older said the same.
Overall, 23% of respondents said they lied to someone about who they voted for, while 58% said that they considered who they voted for to be a private matter, and 22% said they were open to lying about who they voted for.
Researchers attributed this trend among young people to Gen Z voters being raised “during the hyper-polarized Trump era,” thus making them “the most sensitive to perceived pressure and judgment from friends or loved ones.”
“The findings raise big questions about the limits and future of polling, which relies on voters giving responses reflecting their real-life political behavior,” noted the publication.
The report drew from a survey of 2,129 U.S. adults conducted online Oct. 22-24, of whom 1,858 respondents were registered voters. The survey reports a margin of error of +/- 2.4 percentage points at the 95% confidence level for the overall sample and a margin of error of +/- 2.6 percentage points for the registered voter sample.
Reflecting the polarized political environment, Axios and Harris also found that 33% of respondents said they are not close to some family members due to “differing political beliefs.” This number includes 44% of Gen Z respondents and 47% of millennial respondents.
The survey comes less than a week before Americans go to the polls on Election Day to decide who will be the next president of the United States, with many having voted early, either in-person or via mail-in ballot.
Democrat Vice President Kamala Harris and Republican former President Donald Trump continually poll close to one another, with Harris beating Trump by 0.8 percentage points as of Thursday afternoon in an average of polls compiled by The Hill/Decision Desk HQ. On the other hand, the RealClearPolitics average of polls asking voters which candidate they prefer shows Trump beating Harris by 0.5 percentage points as of Thursday afternoon.
The RealClearPolitics “no toss-up” map, which predicts the outcome of the presidential election based on polling in individual states, shows Trump beating Harris by securing 287 electoral votes to his opponent’s 251.
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This article was originally published at The Christian Post. Used with permission. Photo Credit: Casey Robertson on Unsplash.
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Father, heal our divisions in our country. Help us to come to a point where we can have discussions and learn rather than fight with each other, closed off anyone else’s opinion. May we walk in truth, Father, rather than fear.
I think it is good that this truth if coming out. The media have been following these polls with the expectations that they will get the latest and most accurate poll results but it’s a joke and a waste of time to follow them with any thought of it being real news.
There clearly is reluctance among many in our country to divulge their vote, for fear of the disrespect and pushback they will receive in their social circles if their vote does not match the expectations of their peers. As Christians this should serve as an admonition to us that our responsibility is to love in spite of our differences, and to pray all the more for the healing of our divided country.
You’re sounding like this is something new? How naive of you. Yeah it’s a bit more dramatic this time but people have been lying about their voting as long as there has been ballot box stuffing. Soooo? this isn’t my real email either:))), christian or whatever I don’t want anyone one to have easy access to me.