Democrats tend to have more of an education than Republicans. Why is this? Are Democrats actually smarter?

http://www.eduinreview.com/blog/2008/09/are-democrats-more-educated-than-republicans/

http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2006/pages/results/states/US/H/00/epolls.0.html

I'd post some more, but I have to bottle some homebrew.

Discuss.

Knowledge and intelligence are two different aspects of a person...there are many uneducated people who are very intelligent, and there are educated people who aren't all that high on the IQ scale.

Generally speaking, people who have more education know more things, and it's been a pretty standard occurrence that the more you know, the more you tend to vote for Democrats...but it's not all that large of a difference, considering that the biggest blocs of people (some college and college graduates) are not more than a few percentage points off of each other.

It's the "no education whatsoever" crowd that really pulls for the Republicans...but that's not all that many voters, much to the chagrin of the RNC.

Perhaps that's the reason for the unwillingness of Republicans to invest in education of the nation's youth, they're looking to increase their voting base.

Fish on...

Todd

Washing and sanitizing 52 bottles vs. 1 keg. Intelligent?


Discuss.

Not from my perspective. It has everything to do with who protects the rich from paying more taxes. Period.

I'm bottling 22 oz. bottles. I would never waste my beer on 12 oz. bottles. I'm buying kegs in 1 month because I'm tired of bottling so much beer.

One thing at a time. I don't have the money a Republican does. My parent's weren't rich so I never got my trust fund .

What about the sciences? I would be willing to bet without looking at any statistics that people with a B.S. or M.S. tend to vote Democrat.

Once again with my avatar... Are you mad because I have a college education and you don't?

I always figured that more Dems went to college so that they could continue to sponge off of Mom/Dad and avoid having to get a job thus contributing to society. After their 6-8 years of college and Mom/Dad finally cut them off, they start looking for welfare. Thus they vote Democrat.

I have good intuition.

Stoopid iz az stoopid duzz.

You're absolutely right about this. It stands for Idaho.

Idaho does make me happy.

Well said Hankster! I think many of the "D's" get a philosophy of life before they get out in the real world. As they get on in life they see their life's blood get extracted by the liberal agenda and wonder what in the world are we paying for. Then the realization sets in and they turn from what their professors said in college to what they have learned first hand.

My oldest son graduated from medical school about 5 years ago and is living the dream. You should hear him bitch about taxes now. He simply is not the same guy he was when he first got out of school. (By the way, no college loans or government assistance.)

It is a milestone when your kids tell you that they don't think you are as dumb as they originally thought you were.

Be true!

Captain

So from what I can gather you're actually admitting that young people with a Democratic background are actually smarter than young Republicans because they're already thinking for themselves and about the world even before they go to college. Well said.

Is Rush the person who started this whole load of crap about college professors conspiring to corrupt the minds of young Americans? WTF do you think happens in a classroom? Also, how is attending school not the "real world?" Do you think that the real world only involves working a 9-5 job as soon as you graduate from high school?

This Republican/conservative contempt for education sickens me. No wonder America's young are so f-ing stupid and can't compare scholastically to other developed nations. Maybe Todd is right about conservatives trying to ruin our country's educational system so they can keep their voting base.

"It is a milestone when your kids tell you that they don't think you are as dumb as they originally thought you were."

Sounds like a set back in your case. He does realize taxes helped put him through school doesn't he?

I think the whole group think mentality is much more common with those that are college educated or more so those that lived the "college lifestyle". It is very common that many idealistic people assume that voting Democrat is a vote for saving children, stopping wars and some gateway to an enlightened society and they vote blindly under that assumption.

Voting partisan these days is a sign of lapping up every last drop of party propaganda they serve.

Real educated people vote based on facts and research, not washing out to one side or the other.

100% of Republicans think their party is fiscally conservative. Everyone else knows it's a crock of s**t.

The same guys who are "law and order" types claim they'd like to pay for it, too, but are the same "free market" types that don't want the regulations that would stop corporate "America" from sending billions of tax dollars into their own exec's pockets rather than into the treasury to pay for it...a perfect example of the utter disconnect between positions and interests...they claim certain interests, but hold positions that run directly counter to them...almost entirely due to partisan ballwashing.

If actual economic reform, especially corporate tax reform, took place, then we wouldn't have to have a discussion about how many pennies this program or that program costs, or how many pennies this individual or that individual takes from the government...we'd have a discussion about what to do with the trillions that are siphoned out of this country by those greedy pigs.

Fish on...

Todd

Simply buy any atlas and look at the demographic overlays between quality of life, quality of education, infant mortality, obesity rates, pollution levels, unemployment, and just about every socioeconomic factor possible, The Bible Belt glows like an angry hemmoroidal sphincter of all the Worst of the Worst of our country.

Matter of fact, the vast majority of the worst urban crime areas in America are located in the Southern half of the US.

Now why all this?

Can any of you kids tell us where The Red States are?

And I can back every bit of this up with solid fact.

It's a fact there are more welfare recipients that are registered Democrat, than Republican. Where do you file that, under unemployment or quality of life?

It appears that a lot of assumptions are being made about what was once the backbone of our nation and really most of it is on a physical and spiritual level.

Why don't you just say you don't like ugly fat Christians?

Blanket judgments are exactly what party politics want you to do.

Assuming the Dems are some sort of grassroots peoples party and the GOP is all old white money is about as useful as casting your 2012 vote for Jimmy Carter.