Are republican voters better educated than Democratic voters?

[Redneck Socialist]

OK, so before the flames start, here's what I'm thinking.

A common right wing talking point of late has been how terrible it will be if Pelosi becomes Speaker of the House, Conyers to head the Judiciary Committee and so on. Usually tacked on to this is the tired old, Dem's will appoint "activist judges," scare tactic.

My question is this: Is this an effective campaign tactic? If not why do the pubs pull it out so often? I rarely hear the reverse argument being made by Democrats. Some talk of right wing judges but not so much about the necessity of chairing the committees. Why is this? My feeling is that most folks have no idea who Conyers is and the idea of him chairing a House Committee isn't terribly motivating in terms of voting. Am I wrong in this? Is the average republican voter so much more aware of how government works that the thought of Dems ascending to chair various committees becomes an effective campaign tactic?

[Bethany Rockafella]

1. When a Republican says that Pelosi will make a bad house speaker,

I come back with "well she can't be any worse than that Newt Gingrich right?". It shuts them up everytime. :)

[Totallybushed]

11. You mean they don't just say,

"Well, yeah, Duh!"

That's the response that I got when I tried that line about 2 other politicians. What we consider good, they consider bad, and vice-versa. AT least that has been my experience.

You must have been talking to some moderates or independents.

[spag68]

2. IMHO

Voters in both party's probably span the spectrum of education levels. However since the rethugs refer to the dems. as intellectuals, maybe we are.

[Sammy Pepys]

3. Political tag linges

Tag lines tend to be used past their effective date. The "activist judge" line still works in some circles, but is pretty dated. However, because it worked in the past folks ad-types are still willing to give it a shot.

One thing I learned working on some campaigns is never to underestimate what you think the public knows or doesn't know.

[Jed Dilligan]

4. Because they are racist and misogynist,

they are much more aware of women and minorities in positions of power. "Activist judge" is also code for blacks and women.

[WoodrowFan]

5. it depends

polls I've seen show college-educated voters tend to be Republican, but those with advanced degress tend to be even more Democratic.

[NavyDavy]

6. hell no!!!

[mrcheerful]

7. Nope your talking about voters that are greedy self seeking self centered egotistical

assholes. They have spent their lives worrying about #1, their religious beliefs show that, they found an easy way into a better after life, just send Robertson, Farwel and the rest of those idiots cash, then they can get on with their mean little lives of greed corruption and dreaming of screwing the neighbors wife, in secret though, unlike those evil democrats who actually do it in the open for all to see. Their blind faith and unwillingness to change for the better is reflected in their voting. Which also allows them to disconnect from reality and seek to blame rather then find solutions to problems.

[sallyseven]

8. Obviously not look who they vote for

the scum of the earth.

[liberal N proud]

9. Republican voters only vote for the candidate they are told to vote for by the GOP

They don't check out the candidate for themselves.

[razors edge]

10. Maybe they just spend more time before a judge,

pleading their god given right to blow up shit, and the thought of a liberal judge throwing away the key for such harmless fun, scares the shit out of them.

[Tesha]

12. True Republicans probably are. The "willing fools" aren't.

True, patrician Republicans probably are better educated than
a representative cross-rection of Democrats. That is, if you
drew some sort of probability distribution with Ivy League
PhD'ers at the right and GEDs at the left, you'd probably find
that the curve for the patrician Republicans is shifted right
of the curve for Democrats as a whole.

But patrician Republicans are just a very small fraction of
who actually votes these assholes into office. A far larger
cohort are the "willing fools", the not-so-bright who vote
Republican because their pastor told 'em to, or 'cause the
Republicans will cut their death taxes (from $0 to $0), or
'cause the Republicans will keep Adam and Steve from getting
hitched.

I'm pretty sure you'd find the educational probability distribution
of the "willing fools" is *WAY* to the left of the Democrats
as a whole.

So yes, and no.

Tesha

[Redneck Socialist]

13. Well, this is what I get for using an attention getting subject line.

My question is not are republicans better educated, but why they use who chairs committees as a campaign tactic and if this is effective?

Democrats (as far as I know) don't use this in campaigns.

[RaleighNCDUer]

14. They're just pulling out the boogeyman.

It's not as if their followers believe that Pelosi or Conyers would be so bad, but if their spoksmen SAY they will be bad they must know what they're talking about because, after all, they're there and they know what they're talking about.

It's like the WMDs - I don't know how many I heard saying "the government knows more that we do, so we have to trust them on this. We don't get the intelligence - they do."

Authoritarian personalities automatically believing what they are told because they are told to.

[sutz12]

15. Better indoctrinated, maybe...

;)

[Coaster City]

16. Well Hannity says Pelosi would be the worst thing for this country

In what world is a Hasert, Delay, or Gingrich any better?