KS: Gravis: Republicans easily win

[eric82oslo]

Now I understand why all Gravis polls are so terribly skewed. It's due to their insane samples of the population. These 3 questions reveal that:


1. What is your political party affiliation?

54% Republican
25% Democrat
21% Independent


2. What is the highest level of education you have completed?

85% Post Graduate, Some College or Bachelor's Degree
15% High School Graduate or Some High School


3. How old are you?

67% Over 50
33% 18-49


I mean, come oooooooon. How can they even justify releasing polls with such horrible sampling? PPP would never, I repeat never do that, which their boss has stated publicly many, many times. Surely 85% of Kansans - that famously rural state, the very heartland of US agricultural production (although climate change/severe drought has taken a toll on over that the last five years or so, as a result production is down up to 90% in some parts of Colorado and Kansas from where it was just 5-6 years ago, according to a BBC documentary I saw tonight about the increase in worldwide food prices) - have studied at universities or college! The real figure is probably between 30% and 40%, although I wouldn't be surprised if it was below 30% either. It is Kansas after all. Not New Jersey, Massachusetts, New York or New Hampshire.

[eric82oslo]

Thanks for those stats Wulfric. I'm impressed that 75% of Kansas adults have attended college and that a majority even graduated from there. Maybe my less than 40% would be those who have attended universities alone. In any case, it's deeply impressive that the (vast) majority in such a mostly rural and relatively poor state. I guess the education numbers are above similar states like Oklahoma and Nebraska. It's probably closer to the corresponding Colorado numbers, would be my wild guess at least. At the same time I do realize that most professions do require some college education these days. Yet still, a whole lot do not. And for the baby boomer generation and the generation preceeding that, higher education wasn't yet as readily available and common as it is today. Although higher education became much more rapidly common in the US compared to almost every single European country or any other country in the world for that matter. And Kansas obviously benefits from not being a (Deep) South state as well. Its relatively homogenous population (although with a very rapidly growing Hispanic population these days) also probably contibutes to its very high overall education levels I imagine.