Undereducated voters are democrat!

The daily iowan ^ | 8/23/04 | Anthony Harris

[The Raven]

The title says it all

[Conspiracy Guy]

Didn't read the story but the headline is true! Every other lib I know is a short buser. The other half are overeducated and cannot assemble a simple thought.

Very few libs in the nonunion blue collar or white collar middle class. I know 5 millionaires all conservative because they didn't inherit it they made it. They will not pass much of it to their heirs because old money creates stupid.

[The Raven]

Equally good is

Demcrats are Undereducated Voters

[cmsgop]

And people who cannot read, vote in Florida.

Yes, but my eyes have opened to the theory about snowbirds voting twice in 2000. I think we are talking about many thousands opposed to a few thousand. I hope that is investigated.

[NHResident]

When I was in college, we used to say the first semester of 'Physics for Education Majors' involved:
1) Learning how to insert a plug in a socket
2) Learning how to turn a switch to 'on'
3) Learning you can't push with a rope

[T. Jefferson]

Republicans have much higher IQ's than democrats, as proven simply by voter demographics.

[SCALEMAN]

Some Education Degrees are easy to get, but it depends on your emphasis, or minor.

I have a degree in Secondary Education, minor in Biology and graduate work in Micro Biology and know a lot of very smart people with Education Degrees, but they tend to be in the 'hard sciences'

[Soundman4x4]

Actually this is wrong, because those with postgraduate education are more likely to vote Democratic.

http://usconservatives.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2000/epolls/US/P000.html

I suppose you could say that those who are "overeducated" also vote Democratic. There is a sex difference too. College educated women are overwhelmingly Democrat, non college men are overwhelmingly Republican. More:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A56905-2001Mar25?language=printer

The changes have not produced a full-scale reversal of the two parties' traditional constituencies. In the bottom half of the income levels, the Democratic Party remains strong among African Americans, Hispanics and white union members, while GOP support has swelled among nonunion whites. In the top half, there has been a realignment of white, well-educated professionals (lawyers, doctors, scientists, academics), now one of the most reliably Democratic constituencies. But Republican loyalties have strengthened among small-business men, managers and corporate executives.

These changes pose challenges as Republicans and Democrats prepare for the 2002 and 2004 elections.

For advocates of a revived populism in the Democratic Party, the steady erosion of support among lower-income whites is a growing threat. A poll by Democrat Stanley Greenberg for the Institute for America's Future showed that whites without college degrees had significantly more positive feelings toward the Republican Party than toward the Democratic Party.

Asked whether their views were "warm" or "cool" toward the two parties, white women without college degrees were decisively favorable to the GOP, 49 percent "warm" and 27 percent "cool," while their assessment of the Democratic Party was less positive, 46 percent warm to 34 percent cool. For non-college white men, the differences were more dramatic: Their positive view of the Republican Party was 54 percent to 27 percent, and their assessment of the Democratic Party was negative: 38 percent to 41 percent.

[Publius6961]

Undereducated voters are democrat!

D'OH!

Ya think?

Just lsiten to Bevis and Butthead Radio for a couple of days.

[Paleo Conservative]

I have a degree in Secondary Education, minor in Biology and graduate work in Micro Biology and know a lot of very smart people with Education Degrees, but they tend to be in the 'hard sciences'

But is the education degree really useful for being able to teach? Would the time spent getting the education degree be better spent taking courses in the academic subject that will be taught?

[duckbutt]

And now you know why the NEA and DNC are so tight with each other. The uneducated masses are easy to control.....

You owe it to yourselves to get children out of public school...

[Paleo Conservative]

Actually this is wrong, because those with postgraduate education are more likely to vote Democratic.

Does anyone have a breakdown of politcal affiliation of people with graduate degrees by academic discipline and the kind of job that one holds? I have met a number of economics professor who are fairly conservative or libertarian. I bet if you look closer, a lot of those with graduate degrees who are affiliated with the DemocRATS are lawyers, or teachers, or college professors.

[Nam Vet]

"Actually this is wrong, because those with postgraduate education are more likely to vote Democratic. "

When I was just a tad Frosh or Soph in H.S. I asked my parents how some very educated teachers etc could not logically assemble three known facts and come to an intelligent conclusion. Their non-college educated reason? ...

"Son, many people are educated far beyond their native intelligence."

Nam Vet