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Originally posted by: dude1394
It was on betsy's page
It was this comment I believe.
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One of the highest WPE rates came in the data collected by those interviewers with post-graduate degrees. This is a group that leans to the left on average. (According to Gallup, Bush won among those with college degrees and among those with some college, but lost among those with high school diplomas or less and among those with post graduate degrees; the most highly-educated tend to be Democrats, but the average Republican is more educated than the average Democrat.) Many interviewers got the job through recommendations from their college professors (speaking of left-leaning demographic groups); others found the job via listings on craigslist.com, a site heavily frequented by urban hipsters. Even assuming there was no deliberate fudging of the numbers going on -- something I'm perfectly willing to assume -- there's little doubt that many of these interviewers had a demeanor that absolutely screamed liberal. Small wonder that Kerry voters would be more likely to talk to them.
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This is taken almost verbatim from an American Spectator article on why the polling data of the 2004 election was all over the place.
It does not however support any conclusions about the education levels of voters for a candidate. First, as votes (and those who cast them) are kept secret it is impossible to use census data for this research. Census data is the only reliable demographic database in the US. Second, the research must then come from exit polling which is not scientific and also is not verifiable. Third, it is incorrect to make the assumption that a person who identifies with a particular political party in a general sense will always vote for that party's presidential candidate.
Consequently one can make broad general comments about education levels and politics yet the comments are not based on credible information, just assumptions.