Posted on 11/24/2010 6:12:30 PM PST by dselig
Sarah Palin, the former Alaska governor, is among the more natural populist politicians of our time, frequently critiquing elites in the press, the Democratic Party, and the Republican establishment. It is one of the reasons — along with her working-class background and the sense of authenticity that she can often convey — that she is so popular with some voters.
One potential problem for Ms. Palin, however, is that plenty of well-to-do and well-educated voters — those whom we might think of as belonging to the elite — will be participating in the Republican primaries.
Three recent surveys of Republican primary voters suggest significant divides in support for Ms. Palin based on the educational attainment of the voter. A poll released this morning by Marist College show Ms. Palin as the first choice of 17 percent of Republicans who have not graduated from college, giving her a slight lead among that group. But her support is just 7 percent among Republican college graduates, which placed her fifth behind Mitt Romney, Mike Huckabee, Newt Gingirch and Chris Christie.
A Quinnipiac poll, likewise, finds Ms. Palin with the support of 22 percent of Republicans who have not graduated from college, but of 10 percent of those who have. A CNN poll, meanwhile — using a slightly different criterion that focuses on whether voters attended college, whether or not they graduated from it — finds Ms. Palin drawing 20 percent of Republican voters who haven’t attended college, but only 9 percent of those who have.
The candidate whose numbers move in an opposite direction from Ms. Palin is Mitt Romney. On average over the three surveys, he had the support of 15 percent of “no college” voters, but 25 percent of Republicans with higher levels of educational attainment.
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Tommie
They are thrashing for anything to get traction because they don’t know who we are. The folks at the slimes are like many other ‘block headed’ elites that think they are smarter than anyone around them when in most cases they are incredibly average.
Higher Education. It’s the new disability.
Wait just a minute there. According to the lamestream media, the only people that can possible be a Republican are those red-necked, beer guzzling, couldn’t graduate from high school, one-toothed wonders. So what is this college educated stuff?
Let’s just re-write this headline:
Support of Democrats limited among Palin voters, House Rats thrown out on their Asses all across the US
Results count. Elections count. Ha ha
University of Pittsburgh Class of 1999.
AND I support Gov. Sarah Palin.
So there. HA
LOL! Perfect response to the slimes.
Ditto, ditto, and ditto.
My guess is that wealthy, college-educated Republicans also preferred Bush41 over Reagan in 1978.
Are they polling graduates from real colleges or ivy league liberal turd factories?
Does this mean that we might depend on the 82% of voters with less than a HS education to support Palin as they did Obama, or are we stuck with the remaining 18% that made up the major support of Palin? Poor Sarah, the hatchet jobs will be all over the place for the next 2 years, she will be over whelmed with all sorts of dirty tricks from both parties,you can bet on it.
I believe the poll is accurate. The leading candidate among the college-educated crowd is the guy with a MBA and JD from Harvard.
In truth, they probably polled guys like Mikey Bloomberg: someone who calls himself a Republican, has a MBA from Harvard and is worth billions.
I predict that if Palin takes the nomination in ‘12, Bloomberg will start a independent or third party run to make sure she doesn’t win. The Harvard crowd cannot stomach the idea of losing control of the presidency to one of the “great unwashed” like Palin - a woman who has a degree from some little tumbleweed school west of the Hudson River, for cryin’ out loud!
I went to college and I have an officially recorded IQ of 155 and I like Sarah Palin. Of course, I took Electronic Engineering, not the easy junk studies that “elites” gravitate to. “Elite” usually means “1/10th as smart as you think you are”. Most “elites” I know have very limited intellects. They are good at memorizing other people’s ideas but never have an original thought of their own. If you could buy an elite for what he’s worth and sell him for what he thinks he’s worth you could retire.
Sounds like NYT is trying to help start some in fighting.
“College educated” has nothing to do with it. It’s establishment vs. the rest of us.
Huckabee could make it three.
like Palin - a woman who has a degree from some little tumbleweed school west of the Hudson River, for cryin’ out loud!..................................... Yeah, and to think the Professors there are probably using the same text books as those in Yale and Harvard. I guess you have to have the right geographic location to be considered educated?
I hopium this isn’t a sign that most freepers that support Sarah are nothing more then uneducated rednecks. < /sarcasm> :-)
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