Why is it that the MOST educated people are more likely to vote liberal, politically?

Question

I'd like to thank a conservative that provided us this link that shows the most educated people(those with Post-Graduate Degrees), vote Liberal.

http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2000/epolls/US/P000.html

Why do the smartest people vote liberal?

I read the link(I'll even copy it for ya since you somehow missed it ...... Post-Graduate Degree 52 % Gore 44 % Bush

Andy, it's not spin, it's REALITY. Your neocon friend provided the link! You didn't read it all.

Answer 1

The most educated and the least educated vote liberal because they are voting for the rule of law and equal justice under it. They understand that the strength of America is found in human and civil rights for all.

Life=food+water+shelter+education
Liberty=rule of law+equal justice
Pursuit of Happiness=Life+Liberty

Even the least educated understand that their children need to have access to a decent education and equal justice or they have no hope of pursuing happiness.

The most educated understand that none of us is free unless the least among us have Life+Liberty.

It is also interesting to note that every minority tended to vote liberal.

Answer 2

I'm not saying that Liberals are more intelligent...there are intelligent Conservatives....but the thinking by Conservatives is narrow...Liberals might take the scatter gun approach to life and touch on many things and ideas....but the people who never leave the town they grow up in (unless they live in a large city filled with myriad thoughts and ideas floating around) are less likely to understand an opposing view...If you are never in a position of having to allow another view point...how could you ever be tolerant.

I was a Reagan Democrat up until George Bush Sr., but in that time I lived in 3 differnet regions of the country and learned to be tolerant....With my varied experience, how could I be anything but tolerant of others...being tolerant is not a bad thing.

Answer 3

I also found it interesting that the percent vote for Nader also rose up for the college educated; it should also be considered as part of the "liberal" vote.

The more knowledge you have about the world, the wider your world view, the more likely you will understand the complexities of the world, the more likely you consider opposing views, the more rational your thought, the more empathetic you become to your neighbors across the street and across the world. Understanding something is the first step to having compassion for it.

Answer 4

Wow this is a fun question... I think to consider it you have to figure out why less well educated people do not vote liberal as well...

Conservative policies do not benefit most of the people who actually vote conservative tickets, because most of those policies cut social spending and increase taxes disproportionately on the lower 2/3 of society. The less well educated people who do vote this way do not generally understand that they may save $1 on their taxes, but they will lose more than that in services. When people vote for more credentialism they vote to narrow their own opportunities, when they vote for lower property taxes they gut their childrens' education, and when they vote for law and order they are voting to criminalize their own children... They do not understand that they are supporting the concentration of wealth where their own children will not have even the access that they have had to wealth and opportunity.

Meanwhile people who are in the upper 1/3 of income and net worth are benefitting from most conservative policies: they need little social safety net, can afford health insurance... and when their teen gets arrested they can afford a decent lawyer (and most of the police are not in their nice neighborhoods). They can send their children either to private schools, or much better public schools than most children because their own property value/taxes cover better schools... Then they can send them to college and assure a reasonable opportunity for their children to join the upper 1/3 of society. Why should those people vote a liberal ticket or ideology? They do not benefit from it directly...

But the upper 1/3 of society is where most people with graduate degrees settle in our society. More of them end up there than at other strata, proportionately. They probably had the benefit of parents from that strata also, at least if they are under 35. WHY would they want to pay more taxes and erode the special priviledge of their own children, when they personally have so little to gain?

1. They have been exposed to social sciences, and are aware that people are not poor because they are inherently lazy, in fact many are as generously endowed with brains as they themselves are, and work so hard that their bodies break and they die young feeding their own children. Some of them will vote liberal out of a sense of societal justice or compassion.
2. If that is not enough, they have been exposed to *HISTORY*,which indicates in many repeating versions the truth of this: "If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich." John F. Kennedy

Answer 5

So they spent their time on a college campus getting a degree and a brainwash by the liberal profs and staff. Does that mean they are educated and know how to think? Or even know anything? The campuses are 99% liberal. That's what they are fed for 6-8 years.

Answer 6

i think that CNN is evil. I comprehend that it's not the terrific to drop out of highschool. Getting your severe college degree is fairly sturdy theory. some persons are basically not meant to sit down down in a college room. some human beings have an less complicated time studying palms on. this does not lead them to dumb. Who suggested vote casting for Bush became a sensible theory? CNN? in actuality, i think, that them not vote casting for Bush is a exceptionally intelligent element to do. regrettably, for the U. S., not sufficient "dumb" human beings ended up vote casting, or i assume knowledgeable human beings out populate the dumb ones...

Answer 7

Because education sharpens your critical thinking skills. The more critically one thinks, the more likely one is to vote liberal as they can see through the lies and slight of hand arguments that the right uses. Tactics like...when the argument fails, attack the arguer...that kind of stuff. Education teaches you to think for yourself and to question the dominant paradigm. It hones the skills necessary to evaluate arguments and policy and come to a more informed decision.

Answer 8

I know I would like to see a liberal candidate as president. Bottom line, who ever we vote in needs to represent the American people not just the intelligent people unfortunately.

Answer 9

Sorry. I took a statistics course in college. This poll show results for one election for only one office. In most of the state offices & for some Congressional seats, the Republicans won more offices In other words, a lot of people split their ticket that year. Hate to tell you this, but the charts do not measure what you think they do & they are inconclusive anyway because of lack of information from the rest of the races that year..

The truth is, the majority of all people, including the better educated, are middle of the road, politically. Sorry to burst your bubble.

Answer 10

"As people do better, they start voting like Republicans - unless they have too much education and vote Democratic, which proves there can be too much of a good thing."
- Karl Rove