muon2
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« on: May 15, 2005, 04:40:12 PM » |
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Social issues are much more strongly correlated with voting patterns than education, as the Vorlon suggests. Even within an educational group, social issues detremine voting behavior.
There is no doubt IMO that the majority of my research and academic colleagues voted Democrat last year. This is a group of PhD physicists, so they would meet most any test for having the most years of education. My discussions with them tells me that their votes were almostly always apart from their own economic interests. They were voting on either the war/peace issue or on other social issues (gun control, pro-choice, etc.) Most surprisingly, support for science was not generally a factor.
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