{"id":308,"date":"2012-09-10T13:09:01","date_gmt":"2012-09-10T20:09:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.reed.edu\/politika\/?p=308"},"modified":"2014-03-18T10:10:21","modified_gmt":"2014-03-18T17:10:21","slug":"mitt-barack-and-osama-a-modern-take-on-non-attitudes-with-hat-tip-to-bartels-and-converse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/politika\/2012\/09\/10\/mitt-barack-and-osama-a-modern-take-on-non-attitudes-with-hat-tip-to-bartels-and-converse\/","title":{"rendered":"Mitt, Barack, and Osama: A modern take on non-attitudes (with hat tip to Bartels and Converse)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/politika\/2012\/09\/10\/mitt-barack-and-osama-a-modern-take-on-non-attitudes-with-hat-tip-to-bartels-and-converse\/screen-shot-2012-09-10-at-1-10-02-pm\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-309\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-309 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/politika\/files\/2012\/09\/Screen-shot-2012-09-10-at-1.10.02-PM-300x222.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"222\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/politika\/files\/2012\/09\/Screen-shot-2012-09-10-at-1.10.02-PM-300x222.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/politika\/files\/2012\/09\/Screen-shot-2012-09-10-at-1.10.02-PM.png 438w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tip of the hat to <a href=\"http:\/\/themonkeycage.org\/blog\/2012\/09\/10\/math-is-hard\/\">Larry Bartels at The Monkey Cage<\/a> blog who provides a brief reference to this story by Dylan Matthews, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/ezra-klein\/wp\/2012\/09\/10\/do-15-of-ohio-republicans-think-romney-killed-bin-laden-probably-not\/\">&#8220;Do 15% of Ohio Republicans think Romney killed Osama bin Laden? Probably not.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Matthews asks:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Public Policy Polling has a new poll (pdf) out of Ohio showing Obama with his biggest lead since May. Given how hard it would be for Mitt Romney to win the White House without winning Ohio, that\u2019s a big deal.<br \/>\nBut a secondary finding in the poll has gotten a lot of attention. PPP asked voters who they thought deserved more credit for the killing of Osama bin Laden: Obama or Romney. 63 percent said Obama, 31 percent weren\u2019t sure, and 6 percent said Romney.<br \/>\nThe results for Republican voters were even more astonishing. 38 percent said Obama, 47 percent weren\u2019t sure, and 15 percent said Romney. What the heck is going on?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8230; and then goes on to give a nice summary of political science and social psychological work on the topic, including links back to articles by, guess who, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/political-science\/bio\/larry-bartels\">Larry Bartels<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>The timing for me is perfect, because we are reading <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Public-Opinion-Carroll-J-Glynn\/dp\/0813329175\">Glynn, Herbst, Shapiro, and Keefe&#8217;s<\/a> wonderful chapters (4-7) on different disciplinary conceptions of individual cognition and opinion change, followed by four chapters from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Origins-Opinion-Cambridge-Political-Psychology\/dp\/0521407869\">Zaller<\/a> (also linked from the Matthews&#8217;s story), then Converse&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/abs\/10.1080\/08913810608443650#preview\">seminal piece on mass belief systems<\/a> (the foundation on which Zaller&#8217;s book was built).<\/p>\n<p>Nice timing Dylan and Larry!<\/p>\n<p>P.S. I hear through the rumor mill that there is a new edition of Glynn et al. being completed. \u00a0I like that book and look forward to the third edition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tip of the hat to Larry Bartels at The Monkey Cage blog who provides a brief reference to this story by Dylan Matthews, &#8220;Do 15% of Ohio Republicans think Romney killed Osama bin Laden? Probably not.&#8221; Matthews asks: Public Policy &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/politika\/2012\/09\/10\/mitt-barack-and-osama-a-modern-take-on-non-attitudes-with-hat-tip-to-bartels-and-converse\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,9,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faculty","category-paul-gronke","category-voting-and-elections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/politika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/politika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/politika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/politika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/politika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/politika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":562,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/politika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308\/revisions\/562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/politika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/politika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/politika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}