Higher educated voters go mainly Democrat. Look it up. Please, I'm busy now. But here are two I remember from 2000.
Gore won voters who graduated from college and those with post-graduate degrees, but Bush won among high school only graduates.
Those with some college education were split evenly between Bush and Gore.
* This is one of the reasons the right-wing is trying to nail liberal professors at colleges. The thought is education causes liberal thinking. This is true to a degree. It's been true for a long time though today's young generation don't seem to have a clear political direction. My feeling is they will go democrat more and mroe as they come out of school to find few jobs waiting for them, and this Iraq War does not go down well at most colleges. If there a draft it would go down even worse. However 9-11 has made all people generally less critical of the military. Or more pro-military.
College tends to create more liberals because college-educated people are generally more worldly, more aware of what's going on in the world, more artistic, more apt to explore different lifestyles, to travel, to become more tolerant of others by being exposed to diversity, and I feel, the more you know about the world in general the kless judgemental you are about Them versus Us, as the right-wing likes to preach.
Listening to right-wing radio you'd think liberals were wacky fornicating drug-taking bums and traitors. Liberals are actually usually highly educated, serious, moral people. Many of them are very religious. They're just not right-wing religious. |
