Do you think Education has anything to do with which party Americans vote for?

Question

My theory is the Democrats Main numbers are uneducated,poverty stricken good Americans who just take the word of the Leaders in their party.Is that the reason Leaders of the Democrat party want to keep the poor uneducated?

I base my theory on growing up uneducated inthe inner city where everyone hates a Republican but can not give you one reason why except they are greaseballs and the rob from the rich and give to the poor.This is bullshit but this is what uneducated people beleive.

Correction The poor think the Republicans Rob the poor to give to the rich.I told you i was uneducated.

Answer 1

I have looked at the statistical correlations and although there are some definite trends, you'll find that the lowest educated voters are fairly split. The major significant relationship is that people with professional degrees (MBA, accountants, engineers) tend to be Republican while people with academic degrees tend to be Democratic (lawyers, professors).

Until you're looking at graduate school degrees, there really isn't much difference. Location and family political traditions are usually stronger influences until you get to the high paying fields that politicians directly pander to.

Answer 2

The following percentages based on educational attainment are the 2004 Presidential Elections results for, in order, Bush, Kerry, and Nader (the first percentage, in parentheses, is the percentage of the electorate represented by that educational level):

No High School (4%) 49% 50% 0%

H.S. Graduate (22%) 52% 47% 0%

Some College (32%) 54% 46% 0%

College Graduate (26%) 52% 46% 1%

Postgrad Study (16%) 44% 55% 1%

I think you're wrong about why the Democrat Party wants to keep the poor uneducated. It's 'cause they don't really care about them. Hardly any of them vote, so to the Democrats they're simply non-people. When Democrats say how much they care about the poor what they're really doing is telling their very well-educated voters that they care about the poor. The very well-educated are usually also very well-off and they tend to feel guilty about that. So the Dems tell 'em what they want to hear and they, in turn, vote for the Dems. It works pretty well. And it makes me sick.

Answer 3

What are you basing that theory on? It seems more like a chance for you to take a shot at Democrats... Why do you think that the Democratic Party wants to keep the poor uneducated?

I don't think that education directly has a connection to a person's party affiliations, but I think that people who are less educated are more easily swayed into one or another party and are more easily influenced in their beliefs. If I saw a breakdown that showed that educated people were more likely to vote Republican or more likely to vote Democrat, I'd be a bit surprised. Wealth definitely seems to correlate with a lot of voter leanings.

Answer 4

I don’t know where you got your theory at, but most of the uneducated, and poor so happen to live in the mid west and the southern parts of the US. What party has historically dominated the mid west and southern states? That would be the Republican Party. What does that say about our country? Look at what we have elected the last two elections, a president with a 26% approval rating. Do the research, the facts don’t lie.

Answer 5

I think it's more about where you are in the education process and also where you are in life. The fact of the matter is that most people are "Democrat" when they're in college, if they even go. If they don't go, then they probably either work service sector jobs and don't have the luxury of thinking about politics (that whole survival thing gets it the way) OR they go to trade school and end up in a union job with a tradition of voting democrat.

It has been my experience that once someone gets to graduate school then it breaks down more by academic pursuit, with "liberal arts" folks being more "democrat" and business/law/medicine folks being much more conservative.

It's also a fact that the older people get, and consequently the more "stuff" they have and want to proctect, the more conservative they become.

Of course all of this pertains to the people who vote, and that's usually no more than 1/3 of the people who are elligible.

Answer 6

I can understand why you feel that way....I once worked for an elected official who admitted she ran on the Democratic ticket because she knew she would get the poor and uneducated vote....welfare recipients were her main voters, guess what, she is still in office. Saddest part of all, is that she thought she was brilliant for using the lowest aspect of society and laughed at the fact that she was out-smarting her opponents by using this tactic....wonder how many Dem's out there are using the same strategy?

Answer 7

You nailed it. That's why they're against free speech, too.

Until people realize that information is a commodity that you're purchasing with either your time (as a child) or your money (as an adult), and you have to analyze it as carefully as a used car, they'll continue to be misled.

I don't know that Democrats actually go about this consciously. Those in power can become so used to (and adept at) putting "spin" on events, that they begin to forget that delivering information that's been changed, colored, modified or selectively chosen out of context is almost the exact same thing as lying.

Most people recognize this as soon as they see it, and so many people become disgruntled with what they see as a "universal" political tactic that they shut down altogether in terms of gathering information, and just start going with their "gut instincts". (Democrats win again, with the "think with your stomach, not your brain" attitude.)

Answer 8

Actually if you take the 2004 election as an example. The states with the higher average IQ tended to vote democratic.....

Answer 9

There have been studies done that show that the higher the level of education you achieve, the more likely you are to vote Republican. I think it has to do with income more than intelligence, but, you never know.

Answer 10

No, but close. They don't want to keep them uneducated, they just don't bother to get an education. Many democrates are the minority, which are blacks and poor whites. They just want free money, free food..they don't want to work. Ect. mexican's do work..and I have found many are republican.