[extropy-chat] Enlightenment and the election

[Brent Neal]

 (11/10/04 0:09) David Lubkin <extropy at unreasonable.com> wrote:

>Amply covered, perhaps, but apparently untrue. See the exit polls CNN 
>reports at http://tinyurl.com/57l72
>
>No high school (4%) -- Bush 49 % / Kerry 50%
>H. S. graduate (22%) -- Bush 52% / Kerry 47%
>Some college (32%) -- Bush 54% / Kerry 46%
>College graduate (26%) -- Bush 52% / Kerry 46%
>Postgrad study (16%) -- Bush 44% / Kerry 55%
>
>(It would be interesting to see a breakdown by field of study. Engineers 
>are notoriously conservative and scientists liberal.)


Reliability of exit polls not withstanding, I spent some quality time with the census data and found that the percentage of people in a state with a 4-yr degree or higher correlated pretty well with Kerry's performance in the state.  I didn't do anything formal, but apparently some researchers at the University of Maryland did, and found the same thing.




Brent
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