The Education Gap
I, for one, am getting pretty damn tired of the punditry slicing, dicing, and inventing (NASCAR Dads, security Moms, etc) every possible demographic this time of year. After all, with the Electoral College system, it doesn't mean a damn thing what surveys polling the national population reflect. But, being an intellectual elitist, I found this "strategy memo" by Carville's Democracy Corps interesting.
An excerpt:
"In 2000, there was only a 2-point education gap, with Gore and Bush running dead even among college graduates and Bush winning by just 2 points among the non-college educated voters. The result was a 2-point education gap. But not so in 2004. Today, there is now a 12-point education gap. Kerry is winning college educated voters by 10 points but losing the non-college graduates by 2 points."
...of course, there's a lot more people who haven't attended college (58%) versus those who have (42%).
An excerpt:
"In 2000, there was only a 2-point education gap, with Gore and Bush running dead even among college graduates and Bush winning by just 2 points among the non-college educated voters. The result was a 2-point education gap. But not so in 2004. Today, there is now a 12-point education gap. Kerry is winning college educated voters by 10 points but losing the non-college graduates by 2 points."
...of course, there's a lot more people who haven't attended college (58%) versus those who have (42%).
posted by Neckface at 5:29 PM
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