Gallup surveyed more than 25,000 voters over the past calendar year and found that the president remains well-liked among those with multiple degrees.
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"The findings feed into the stereotypical political narrative that those with an advanced education are decidedly liberal."
http://www.gallup.com/poll/125423/Americans-Postgraduate-Education-Back-Obama.aspx?CSTS=tagrss
http://news.yahoo.com/s/huffpost/20100128/cm_huffpost/440998
El Tecolote, that doesn’t make any sense. Sounds like you want an uneducated leader.
Vinney: I’ll concede your point if you concede mine. Deal?
I love the answers that say "it’s all a conspiracy! They teach what they want you to think!!"
-Translation: I don’t trust people smarter than me.
I attempted to track down the "Survey" data for the types of questions asked in the Poll. Could not. Therefore, I have no means to determine the validity or unbiased nature of the questions asked. These Polls are valid ONLY if the questions are not slanted or prejudiced.
Secondly, I see no purpose in such a Poll, as other than useful to Demographic needs for businesses. Other than that, this type of misinformation only "fractures" and divides the country more. Useless information.
February 18, 2010
Horaayy..there are 31 comment(s) for me so far ;)
My comment is that over-thinking things can be dangerous. There can be such a thing as too much education, and it can lead to life with blinders on.
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Our survey says "Uh-uh!!"
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Family Fortunes
It’s not my fault that colleges and universities are chalked full of left wing nut job professors who never held a real job in their lives.
Actually, it’s my belief that these left wing loons are STILL in college in teaching positions because they could never make it in the real world.
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which makes a great case for the libs lacking common sense!!!!
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You have to find the marriage of philosophical ideology and real world solutions.
How’s Obama’s education working out for you?
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So if youre using Gallup as a source for credible data then you also agree that Obamacare is NOT wanted by the majority of the American people, correct?
http://www.gallup.com/Home.aspx
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It’s also true the higher the intellectual level you attain the more likely you are to be a democrat as well.
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I think that is because younger people in college are indoctrinated by their liberal professors. As you grow older and go back to school you can see through the teachers political rants. I am college educated and my wife is pursuing her PHD in Mathematics currently. We are both conservative.
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That is just not true. Every poll ever conducted shows that the more money one makes, the more likely they vote Republican. Its also true about education.
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50 years of research
Not that hard to figure out.
The more time you spend around liberal professors with your very future depending on your agreeing with their ideas, at least long enough to parrot them for the exam to get a passing grade, the more completely some of their ideas will stick, indoctrinating you to their beliefs regardless of how poorly their ideas work in the real world.
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Actually I find that the most educated of people tend to be Libertarians or Independents.
If you take out the soft, easy majors like English, Art, Communications and so on and include the real Science Degrees most of us lean in the Independent/Libertarian direction.
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He is only narrowly ahead in that one category and in every other category is below 50%. Don’t worry it won’t be long before every category will fall below 50%.
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Bull$h1t!!!!
Brown/Palin 2012.
2 point’s.
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We already knew this from the posts here on the YA board, but thanks for the poll results.
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The fact is colleges teach what to think and not how to think.
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Are you talking book educated or street - real life - educated? Remember what Churchill said - roughly: "if you are not a liberal when you are 18 you have no heart, if you are not a conservative by the time you are 30, you have no head".
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Not true for me, although I don’t consider myself as a modern Republican.
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It’s completely unsurprising.
I don’t know how an informed, intelligent human-being would support Bush.
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and that goes to show you, who are the rich elitists the educated they feel they know whats right and feel they should choose and make decisions for the rest of us undereducated people.but i tell them no thanks
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And at the same time, they seems to lack common sense. Have you seen how they preach about how "businesses are evil, tax cuts for them will ruin us and tax hikes will always increase revenue."
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Only proves that there is a difference between education and wisdom. Liberals are proof that there are lots of fools who are educated beyond their ability to comprehend.
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Only for those who have not been able to throw off the liberal brainwashing you now receive in universities.
Polls also show this in that younger people tend to be more liberal but become much more conservative as they get older. This comes from freeing yourself from the liberal indoctrination as the real world impinges on your life.
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Look at the people polled they are full time students, over educated and indoctrinated by socialist professors that teach because they can’t do!!
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I attempted to track down the "Survey" data for the types of questions asked in the Poll. Could not. Therefore, I have no means to determine the validity or unbiased nature of the questions asked. These Polls are valid ONLY if the questions are not slanted or prejudiced.
Secondly, I see no purpose in such a Poll, as other than useful to Demographic needs for businesses. Other than that, this type of misinformation only "fractures" and divides the country more. Useless information.
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The farther one is away from directly creating product the less one has to ask, does the idea actually work. The more time one spends in academia the more time they have to brain wash the individual, while the more time one spends in the real world the more conservative one becomes.
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Surveys can be made to say anything based upon how you phrase the question and who you ask. This survey is nonsense. It was created by liberals to promote a liberal agenda.
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PhD in Electrical Engineering / Patent Attorney
Proud Republican since 1960
Andrew Carnegie believed that to be successful, you only need to be right 51% of the time. Yet, how many truly successful people have such a dismal success rate? Certainly not the current resident of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
If by voting for 0bama, the liberals proved their point, I wonder if there’s a correlation between advanced education and the ability to shoot straight. Certainly the next revolution will side advanced education liberals against patriots who wish to take back their country.
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Surveys can be found to support almost anything.
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First of all, a ’survey’ is not a scientific study, so right off the bat it has no credibility with me. How were those who were sampled selected? Who did the surveys? How do we know that those being surveyed were honest in reporting their level of education? How do we know the credibility of those who conducted the survey? How do we know proper steps were taken to elimnate any confimation biases? There is also research out there that shows conservatives are usually more education than liberals. Hollywood is the epicenter of liberalism and many actors and actresses are high school, (and in many cases), elementary school dropouts. I really couldn’t care less about a survey. I’d only be interested in a scientific study conducted by an independent organization that followed scientific methods in doing research. Now, these people who were surveyed, did they earn their degrees from brick & mortar universities? Or did they get mail-order degrees from some diploma mill, or one of these so-called ‘on-line’ universities set up in the corner of some bank building where they give life experience credit and open-book, multiple choice exams? I’m a conservative and I fly jets. I also have two bachlor’s degrees and I’m only a year away from finishing dual master’s; one a MBA and the other a MEC from an AACSB accredited university. All of my degrees are REAL and were earned the old fashioned way; sitting in a brick & mortar classroom. With all these on-line universities out there, (most of them not even accredited and the few that are accredited are done so by phony organizations), I’m skeptical when someone tells me they have a college degree because very few people actually have REAL degrees. By the way, gallup is one of the most inaccurate polsters around, if that’s where it came from….The way you presented the survey results, you are making a personal inference about the education levels. Was this poll just to see if there was a corelation between education level and liking Obama, or comparing education levels with ideologies? Of the 25,000 who were polled, how many were democrats? Did they make sure they polled 12,500 democrats and 12,500 republicans? I’m a political scientist and have been trained in conducting surveys and research and I see a lot of possible problems with this so-called survey that could significantly skew the results.
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Its true, those with graduate degrees are more likely to be liberal.
But that’s such a small percentage of people, as to be meaningless.
But those with college educations, are more likely to be republican.
Face it, with a PhD in english, social sciences, history, etc
Where are you gonna get a job, other than the government or a university ?
So they need more liberal spending to keep employed.
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Why would you ask for Republican comment to such a question? Oh wait … I get it … satire!
Fortunately the Repubs are a dying breed. Good riddance to their tyranny and double entendres.
The trick is not to learn what they teach but to learn how to discover the truth.
I AM
Dartagnon
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