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Political Split on Iraqi War

According to many analysts, there is a measurable and increasing political split in the United States based on the biological sex of adult Americans (Jacobson, 2003). This political split is referred popularly as the ôgender gapö, which Jacobson (2003) says approximates nine-percent, with women being somewhat less conservative politically and less likely to favor war than men. Bumiller (2004) writing in the New York Times notes, however, that many American women support the action of President Bush in striking Iraq in the absence of any precipitating action by Iraq against the United States.

The purpose of this study is to examine the support for and opposition to the policies and actions of President Bush with respect to the war on Iraq with an objective of assessing the credibility of a gender gap on this issue. Two hypotheses are tested in this study, as follows:

Support for or opposition to the policies and action of President Bush in relation to the war on Iraq does not vary to a statistically significant extent in relation to the gender of adult Americans.

Support for or opposition to the policies and action of President Bush in relation to the war on Iraq does vary to a statistically significant extent in relation to the level of formal educational attainment of adult Americans; however, these variations lose their significance when gender is factored into the equation.

The data required to test the hypotheses were obtained from the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press (2003). The data were collected in April 2003 as a part of an ongoing research project. The study involved 924 adult Americans 18 years old or older. The survey was conducted by telephone, and was administered to the first qualifying adult who answered the telephone when random calls were made.

The survey included 27 questions of topical relevance, some of which were multiple part questions. The survey also included 18 questions...

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