Reply #38: "Education" is a better indicator of "class" than income.. [View All]

[Smarmie Doofus]

Lots of educated people are not making lots of $$$ for a number of reasons . Mainly they're young, starting out or working part time; or working in poorly compensated fields ( like education; tee-hee.) This would account for the lack of a consistent correlation in both the Field and the CNN poll between YES/NO and income. It's all over the place.

But, if you accept that premise.... education level defines "class"... social "class" is closely correlated with YES/NO in both Field and the CNN survey. The better educated one is... the more one is likely to vote NO. The less educated one is, the more likely to vote YES. This is the only thing that can be said with certainty.

How AAs in Calif. fit is hard to say without more info re. race/education breakdown. What's worth noting is there's a *huge* discrepancy between the CNN poll and the Field poll re. the AA vote. Close to even in Field becomes 70-30 yes on CNN. That's quite a swing in a four days. Since it's not reflected in any other category ( i.e. a *seismic* shift of a comparable magnitude in the last week) one has to wonder about the accuracy of one or both polls where it pertains to this particular demographic.

But this much we can say for certain: the less one knows, the more likely one is to support Prop 8.