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Sunday, November 07, 2004

Middle America
by Lee

The conventional wisdom among the left is that Bush was reelected by a bunch of toothless, ignorant, gun-waving, foreigner-fearing redneck morons.  Gallup has done some polling, however, and the truth is somewhat different.

An analysis of Gallup’s final pre-election poll shows that George W. Bush’s victory over John Kerry was led by strong support among groups that tend to be politically conservative—men, whites, Southerners, married voters, churchgoers, Protestants, gun owners, and veterans, as well as his natural Republican supporters. Bush did well in states he won in 2000, and his advantage in those states was larger than the advantage Kerry had in states that Al Gore won in 2000. Generally speaking, Bush’s support by subgroup rose slightly in nearly all groups, but this was probably because there were no significant third-party candidates attracting support this year as Ralph Nader did in 2000. But Bush improved on his 2000 performance among conservatives, urban residents, and regular churchgoers beyond what can be attributed to the lack of a significant third-party candidate, while he did less well among younger voters.

Scroll about halfway down the page and you’ll see how people of various education levels voted.  People with postgraduate degrees went for Kerry 47% to 53%.  However, those with undergraduate degrees went for Bush 58% for 42%, and those with some college went for the president 56% to 44%.  when we get to those with a high-school education or less, they went for Kerry 54% to 46%.

In other words, ivory tower elitists and uneducated dumbasses went for Kerry.  Most normal people in the middle went for Bush.  And the Democrats wonder why they lost.,

Posted by Lee on 11/07/04 at 05:08 PM in Election 2004  • (0) Trackbacks • Permalink • Discuss this in the forums
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