Anonymous wrote:I have a hunch that the Democrats get a huge majority of the welfare recipient high school drop out vote - no particular study in mind here, but my sense is that the highly educated DEMS (and there are some to be sure) aren't the ones accounting for the 100% DEM voting blocks in major cities. Jessie Jackson Jr. won in a landslide despite being under a well deserved cloud.

High school dropout vote was dead even in the 2012 Presidential election. Voters with postgraduate degrees skewed 55% toward Obama nationally, however.
http://elections.nytimes.com/2012/results/president/exit-polls

Lehigh University

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Anonymous wrote:I think OP has a good question. My British husband came to the US for ugrad and was amazed at how in-your-face the student Democrat groupies were. They couldn't answer basic questions on economic policy or civics but boy did they like to do political marketing.
He and the other foreign students also noticed the strong biasedness with the professors, a left-leaning one.

If you find a nonjudgmental, non brainwashed groupie school, do share! Otherwise go abroad!

Thank you! They are such idiots and will NOT SHUT UP!

Oh yay. A second poster who had *no* idea how lefty European university student bodies really are. You conservatives should get out more.

For those recent posters please start a new thread on the Politics forum. This is the College forum.

I have a hunch that the Democrats get a huge majority of the welfare recipient high school drop out vote - no particular study in mind here, but my sense is that the highly educated DEMS (and there are some to be sure) aren't the ones accounting for the 100% DEM voting blocks in major cities. Jessie Jackson Jr. won in a landslide despite being under a well deserved cloud.

Anonymous wrote:Look at Washington & Lee. First-rate education at a small liberal arts college -- and an easy drive from D.C. (a plus for any mom).

I hear chopper blades!

Anonymous wrote:Education, by definition, attracts Democrats, because Democrats value education. The GOP believes education is "elitist."

So, OP, if you're a true Republican, you shouldn't be sending your kid to college at all.

Yeah. White elitists in democratic party rule the masses of uneducated african american and hispanics. The party to be in for sure.

Va Tech is full of pro-gun "good old boys" from Virginia. You can't get more Republican than a southern-VA conservative Christian. I know, because that describes a lot of my family

Anonymous wrote:Maybe OP should let her son use college for what it's meant for: expanding your mind and your outlook. It might do him and her good.

Also, ever wonder why the most educated people skew liberal? There is a good reason for it.

The most educated people I know have learned to keep their politics to themselves.

Anonymous wrote:I think OP has a good question. My British husband came to the US for ugrad and was amazed at how in-your-face the student Democrat groupies were. They couldn't answer basic questions on economic policy or civics but boy did they like to do political marketing.
He and the other foreign students also noticed the strong biasedness with the professors, a left-leaning one.

If you find a nonjudgmental, non brainwashed groupie school, do share! Otherwise go abroad!

Thank you! They are such idiots and will NOT SHUT UP!

Langley

Anonymous wrote:Education, by definition, attracts Democrats, because Democrats value education. The GOP believes education is "elitist."

So, OP, if you're a true Republican, you shouldn't be sending your kid to college at all.

Seriously!!!
Then why are all those uneducated people part of the democratic party? Because they have the crowd mentality?
Makes sense looking at the voting pattern.

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Anonymous wrote:Amazing that all those Democratic/Republican numbers always add up to 100. Like professors can only be a Democrat or a Republican. I am not even counted. Makes me doubt the rigor of the research.

-one of many politically independent professors

My reading of the report suggests that they are only reporting on those professors who could be identified as Democrat or Republican and excluding those whose political affiliation couldn't be identified - so someone registered as independent (often "no affiliation") wouldn't be included. So, it makes sense that the numbers add up to 100% - though I suppose there could be people registered to the "Green Party" or "American Communist Party" - but if so they were probably excluded as well.

It would be helpful to know what percentage is included.

Don't feel bad I'm not counted either - but I don't necessarily doubt the rigor of the research - especially since the results do not seem surprising in the least.

I absolutely doubt the quality of this "research." The article is not peer-reviewed and the author, in his only nod to methodology, offers "I organized college students to investigate the voting registrations of university professors at more than a dozen institutions of higher learning." Well, that is not much rigor. I am sure that some professors are not registered to vote because they are only permanent residents. Other professors are not members of any political party. Some are registered as independent. I know personally know one who is not registered at all. Are we to believe that after examining the voting registration of every professor at 12 universities, the author did not did not find one person who was not registered, registered without a party, or registered independent?

The second big problem with this "research" is the author. He founded an organization to combat "leftist indoctrination" in higher education. That alone should give a critical thinker pause. But wait, there's more. This author now works for a partisan political organization. The Southern Poverty Law Center has accused him of racism with some good evidence. He has taken $4M from an organization that promotes research to find a link between ethnicity and intelligence. He has also accused the Muslim Students Association of being an arm of the Muslim Brotherhood. You might want to believe in his objectivity. But I am more suspicious. Oh, and the research is hardly fresh. It was done in 2001.

Anonymous wrote:Amazing that all those Democratic/Republican numbers always add up to 100. Like professors can only be a Democrat or a Republican. I am not even counted. Makes me doubt the rigor of the research.

-one of many politically independent professors

My reading of the report suggests that they are only reporting on those professors who could be identified as Democrat or Republican and excluding those whose political affiliation couldn't be identified - so someone registered as independent (often "no affiliation") wouldn't be included. So, it makes sense that the numbers add up to 100% - though I suppose there could be people registered to the "Green Party" or "American Communist Party" - but if so they were probably excluded as well.

It would be helpful to know what percentage is included.

Don't feel bad I'm not counted either - but I don't necessarily doubt the rigor of the research - especially since the results do not seem surprising in the least.

Amazing that all those Democratic/Republican numbers always add up to 100. Like professors can only be a Democrat or a Republican. I am not even counted. Makes me doubt the rigor of the research.

-one of many politically independent professors