{"id":14735,"date":"2022-10-26T08:11:04","date_gmt":"2022-10-26T08:11:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nftandcrypto-news.com\/crypto\/crypto-council-for-innovation-poll-sees-crypto-voters-as-a-force-to-be-reckoned-with\/"},"modified":"2022-10-26T08:11:06","modified_gmt":"2022-10-26T08:11:06","slug":"crypto-council-for-innovation-poll-sees-crypto-voters-as-a-force-to-be-reckoned-with","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nftandcrypto-news.com\/crypto\/crypto-council-for-innovation-poll-sees-crypto-voters-as-a-force-to-be-reckoned-with\/","title":{"rendered":"Crypto Council for Innovation poll sees crypto voters as a force to be reckoned with"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A poll conducted by the Crypto Council for Innovation (CCI) has shown that a candidate\u2019s position on crypto may impact the outcome of the United States midterm elections. Significant numbers of voters are well-disposed toward crypto and want to see it treated as a serious and valid part of the economy, and bipartisanship is strong in the crypto community.<\/p>\n
The CCI commissioned a poll of 1,208 people on Oct. 8-10 about their attitudes toward crypto and the upcoming elections. The poll found that 13% of respondents won cryptocurrency, which is in line with the 16% who owned stocks and 12% who owned mutual funds and ahead of the 5% of bondholders. <\/p>\n
CCI chief strategist of political affairs and former Colorado senator Cory Gardner said the numbers indicate a bloc that may exert influence over the coming elections. Gardner told Cointelegraph:<\/p>\n
\u201cA percentage here and a percentage there could change the outlook of an election [\u2026] especially when an election can be won by thousands of votes, not hundreds of thousands of votes.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Independents (17%), Hispanic Americans (18%), African Americans (18%) and young voters (20%) owned crypto at higher-than-average rates. The majority of Latino and African American respondents had a more favorable view of crypto\u00a0and credit unions than banks. CCI communications director Amanda Russo told Cointelegraph:<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s a new segment of the population that this is resonating with as a new onramp to financial access and freedom.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Another notable finding of the poll was that respondents showed a preference for social media (36%) over traditional news outlets (31%) as sources of financial information. \u201cRegulators have to understand where people get their information from\u201d to understand their mission, Gardner said. <\/p>\n
Related: Almost 50% of Gen Z and Millennials want crypto in retirement funds: Survey<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n
While 36% of respondents wanted to see crypto \u201ctreated as a mechanism for fraud and abuse,\u201d 45% \u201cwant legislators to treat crypto as a serious and valid part of the economy,\u201d and 52% think that crypto needs more regulation. The divide between proponents and opponents of crypto is not divided along party lines, however. Gardner said:<\/p>\n
\u201cThe partisanship of crypto is not left or right. [\u2026] The partisanship of crypto is crypto.\u201d <\/p><\/blockquote>\n
CCI intends to repeat the poll quarterly. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A poll conducted by the Crypto Council for Innovation (CCI) has shown that a candidate\u2019s position on crypto may impact the outcome of the United States midterm elections. Significant numbers of voters are well-disposed toward crypto and want to see it treated as a serious and valid part of the economy, and bipartisanship is strong […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14736,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crypto"],"yoast_head":"\n
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