Reply #203: I don't believe it's that simple [View All]

[last_texas_dem]

Yes, more educated voters have been more likely to vote for Obama than Clinton in the primaries, but I expect that in the general election the trend of recent presidential elections will hold, with the Democratic candidate Obama winning the most and least educated voters (high school dropouts and voters with postgraduate degrees) and the Republican candidate McCain winning voters with Bachelors degrees, with the two almost splitting high school graduates. Does this indicate that a McCain voter with a college education has studied the issues and is voting more knowledgeably than an Obama-voting high school dropout? I don't think this is always the case. People vote the way they do for a variety of reasons; some "uneducated" voters vote quite knowledgeably and in line with their values and beliefs, while some voters with doctorates are essentially clueless when it comes to politics.