Gruber Studied Church Attendance’s Impact On Voting

The Daily Caller ^ | 11/12/14 | Patrick Howley

[Nachum]

MIT professor and Obamacare consultant Jonathan Gruber conducted a government study to determine whether or not church attendance impacts voter turnout, and whether repealing state laws banning retail commerce on Sundays could diminish voter turnout.

Gruber drew fire after The Daily Caller published a video Monday in which he revealed that certain aspects of Obamacare’s design were concealed from the public because the “stupidity of the American voter” would have killed the law’s chances at passage. (RELATED: Gruber: Lack of Transparency Was Key For Obamacare)

A second video then emerged in which Gruber credited Obamacare’s passage to the American people being “too stupid” to understand it.

Before working for the Obama administration, Gruber focused some of his professional efforts on proving whether or not church-goers vote more.

Gruber authored a 2008 National Bureau of Economic Research working paper with two other professors entitled: “Does Church Attendance Cause People To Vote? Using Blue Laws’ Repeal To Estimate the Effect of Religiosity on Voter Turnout.”

“Regular church attendance is strongly associated with a higher probability of voting. It is an open question as to whether this association, which has been confirmed in numerous surveys, is causal,” according to the paper’s abstract.

[Nachum]

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[BenLurkin]

The guy is creepy, IMO.

[Army Air Corps]

The guy is creepy, IMO.

Most fascists are.

[healy61]

This guy is Jonathan Shicklegruber.

[BenLurkin]

Hmmmm...

Wasn’t there an infamous Austrian named Shicklegruber....

[ari-freedom]

[harwood]

You’re gonna maybe make in a minute vat you make mit dis Kemtone crap in your whole life

[acapesket]

Like Rahm’s brother Creepy Zeekie!

[Alex Murphy]

Gruber authored a 2008 National Bureau of Economic Research working paper with two other professors entitled: “Does Church Attendance Cause People To Vote? Using Blue Laws’ Repeal To Estimate the Effect of Religiosity on Voter Turnout.” “Regular church attendance is strongly associated with a higher probability of voting. It is an open question as to whether this association, which has been confirmed in numerous surveys, is causal,” according to the paper’s abstract.

PFL

[DB]

And wasn’t this guy Mitt Romney’s go to guy for Romney care?

[Unam Sanctam]

Yup, we idjit bitter clingers always vote. We’re too stupid to know any better.

[tbpiper]

I guess we church goers are too stupid to know we can’t govern ourselves.

[Ann Archy]

Hey Daily Caller....there are THREE videos of Gruber the Goober saying voters are STUPID!!! And he was an ARCHITECT, not just an advisor on Obamacare AND Romneycare!!

[Fresh Wind]

What about bath house attendance impact on voting? Did you study that, Mr. Gruber?

[Tucker39]

Hey! This meme about certain people’s stupidity being played in order to pass Obolacare goes farther than just the voters in flyover country. The SCOTUS swallowed it, too.

[Lake Living]

I’m sure someone has already posted this over the last few days but to me this certainly gives credence to Rush’s “low-information-voter” idea (not that he needed it). Obviously, even the Dem’s believe it.

[liberalh8ter]

and I'm sure there's no correlation between this guy's study and the Catholic Church's support of amnesty. /s

[huldah1776]

Yup, hence the fight to shut the mouths of pastors and to read their sermons.

Truth must be stopped like it has been in the education system. Talk radio must go, internet control, tweet control. Hey, building servers for the NSA creates jobs.

[Prophet2520]

“MIT professor ...Jonathan Gruber “

1 Corinthians 1:27 But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty;

There are actually several things interesting in the study he conducted.

1. Blue law repeal definitely cause decline in church attendance
2. Decline in church attendance cause decline in voter turnout.

I even found the simple list of statewide Blue law repeals and dates interesting.

Table 1: Blue Laws Information and Summary
Panel A: State and Year of Repeal
Florida 1969
Iowa 1955
Indiana 1977
Kansas 1965
Minnesota 1985
North Dakota 1991
Ohio 1973
Pennsylvania 1978
South Carolina 1985
South Dakota 1977
Tennessee 1981
Texas 1985
Utah 1973
Vermont 1982
Virginia 1975
Washington 1966
See text for reasons why various states were not included. Eight other states which never had Blue Laws
are also included in the regressions: Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon,
and Wyoming