McCain-Palin winning over "Maxed-Out Moms"

[symbiosis 0]

Yep, McCain-Palin win over super-rich, religious zealots and stupid people. In the era of wedge politics that's at least 51%

Your facts don't match your argument. One table compares level of education between states to show more educated people vote Dem. Unfortunately that would only applied (maybe) to the electoral college and not demographic profiles of voters.

Bush won more votes than Kerry among:

People who make over $50,000 and lost by 1% among those who make $30,000-$49,999. If that's super rich to you must enjoy dumpster diving.

Nope. Those are the idiots, voting against their own self-interest.

High school and college grads. Kerry barely won the the high school dropouts and small number of people with advanced degrees.

People over 30. Kerry won with kiddie crowd don't know much about politics and don't bother to vote much.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States..._election,_2004

It would fair to say the Dems win votes with anti-religious nuts, the uneducated or PhDs isolated in college campuses and the poor.

By the way, the Dems have a few "zombie" voter blocks that vote over 70% for Dems- blacks, Jews, gays and maybe atheists. The Republicans don't have 70% of the vote in any non-ideological categories.

well, there you have it. there's a strong correlation between atheism and education. By the way, many non-practicing Jews are also atheists:

http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/stor...=402381&c=2

[alienlovechild 75]

well, there you have it. there's a strong correlation between atheism and education. By the way, many non-practicing Jews are also atheists:

You could try use an impact statement to state a conclusion. I really hate having to think for other lazy azz posters.

Your conclusion is probably more educated people are atheists and vote Dem as a result.

That may explain why the Democratic Party has become more alienated and isolated from mainstream American voters and values. The idea of slamming those who are religious as sport (see the Colorado thread) without provokation is now deeply engrained in the the very veins of liberals. They expect they can win over converts with insults which is a break from winning Dem coalitions in the past. Pretty dumb tactic but hey it's your party.

Anyway, Republicans do better with educated voters expect for PhDs and only the poor go Dem in big way. It's funny how the Dems used to pride themselves on being for the poor now they despise them as white trash. You guys have no idea who's voting for your candidates so it's little wonder Obama can't broaden his base.

[Imua 0]

In my experience librarians(who have a master's degree in library and information science - academic librarians usually have a subject master's as well) overwhelmingly vote Democratic, FWIW. Religious nutjobs who favor book burning kinda tend to rub us the wrong way.

[PlatyPius 5]

people still think obama is a muslim?

Speak American. You mean, "terr-ist".

The one thing you can consistently say is great about America is there's no shortage of stupid people to make you feel better about yourself.

That's why I still hang out on VJ!

people still think obama is a muslim?

Yep, McCain-Palin win over super-rich, religious zealots and stupid people. In the era of wedge politics that's at least 51%

Stats would be great !!

http://people-press.org/commentary/?analysisid=103

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/10/2...ome-and-voting/

http://www2.hawaii.edu/~bergen/bush.html

Sym, you're living up to your model sterotype image by such posts......

and i didnt see anything in those links speaking about religious zealots and stupid people....

You have to click on them

ROFLMFAO!!!!! I think I may have even snorted on that one....

[symbiosis 0]

well, there you have it. there's a strong correlation between atheism and education. By the way, many non-practicing Jews are also atheists:

You could try use an impact statement to state a conclusion. I really hate having to think for other lazy azz posters.

Your conclusion is probably more educated people are atheists and vote Dem as a result.

That may explain why the Democratic Party has become more alienated and isolated from mainstream American voters and values. The idea of slamming those who are religious as sport (see the Colorado thread) without provokation is now deeply engrained in the the very veins of liberals. They expect they can win over converts with insults which is a break from winning Dem coalitions in the past. Pretty dumb tactic but hey it's your party.

Anyway, Republicans do better with educated voters expect for PhDs and only the poor go Dem in big way. It's funny how the Dems used to pride themselves on being for the poor now they despise them as white trash. You guys have no idea who's voting for your candidates so it's little wonder Obama can't broaden his base.

Yes, we're all elitists. Note italics: it's actually the opposite: http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2006/pages/res...0/epolls.0.html

(Cliff Notes: Democrats have a 17% lead over GOP among Phdsl)

In my experience librarians(who have a master's degree in library and information science - academic librarians usually have a subject master's as well) overwhelmingly vote Democratic, FWIW. Religious nutjobs who favor book burning kinda tend to rub us the wrong way.

[Heracles 417]

The one thing you can consistently say is great about America is there's no shortage of stupid people to make you feel better about yourself.

Tell me about it. You should just look in the mirror SRVT..

[alienlovechild 75]

Yes, we're all elitists. Note italics: it's actually the opposite: http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2006/pages/res...0/epolls.0.html

(Cliff Notes: Democrats have a 17% lead over GOP among Phdsl)

Off year elections are less representive of the electorate because the turnout is lower. It's also a well-known pattern that the party in power usually loses congressional seats in off years. Since the Dems won the Congress in 2006, your numbers aren't that valid compared to those from the general election that I cited.

http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0781453.html

The lead in PhDs just adds ammunition that college profs are notoriously liberal, thanks.

[symbiosis 0]

Yes, we're all elitists. Note italics: it's actually the opposite: http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2006/pages/res...0/epolls.0.html

(Cliff Notes: Democrats have a 17% lead over GOP among Phdsl)

Off year elections are less representive of the electorate because the turnout is lower. It's also a well-known pattern that the party in power usually loses congressional seats in off years. Since the Dems won the Congress in 2006, your numbers aren't that valid compared to those from the general election that I cited.

http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0781453.html

The lead in PhDs just adds ammunition that college profs are notoriously liberal, thanks.

The link you point to says nothing to your claim. Please cite the correct source.

[IAMX 3,055]

Your conclusion is probably more educated people are atheists and vote Dem as a result.

That may explain why the Democratic Party has become more alienated and isolated from mainstream American voters and values. The idea of slamming those who are religious as sport (see the Colorado thread) without provokation is now deeply engrained in the the very veins of liberals. They expect they can win over converts with insults which is a break from winning Dem coalitions in the past. Pretty dumb tactic but hey it's your party.

Actually, you'd be surprised at how many atheists are Republican in California. Mostly because Democrats represent the PC crowd who is, just like Republicans, afraid to bank away from their political beliefs.

Atheists and Agnostics I'd trust far more with an educated vote, and are more likely go open up their options to third party because they understand questioning things, including yourself, opens one up to make a more educated decision.

And about slamming religion as a sport, it's just fun handing people their own hypocrisy when they want to push the morals they can't even follow themselves upon others, and especially when they only read the parts of their bible (for the Christian bunch) they want to follow, and ignore or excuse not following the others. Of course, the latter part is relevant because their expectation is that others like gays, should follow their beliefs of what is "sanctity of marriage". So thats why people are wise enough to slam them for their stupidity, because wise religious people live and let live, and understand these beliefs are subjective, and they can never follow it to-the-word anyways, so don't expect others to either.

Anyway, Republicans do better with educated voters expect for PhDs and only the poor go Dem in big way. It's funny how the Dems used to pride themselves on being for the poor now they despise them as white trash. You guys have no idea who's voting for your candidates so it's little wonder Obama can't broaden his base.

If this were the case about the educated going Republican the whole Bay Area would have gone Republican. It's more like the opposite, where the midwest states go Republican, and highly dense areas where business flourishes with the population goes Democrat. So given the masses still collectively grab at the first two political parties says something about the nation as a whole.