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DKos Polling Aggregate: Is This Why Republicans Hate Education?

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This summer, the DailyKos/SEIU/PPP polls started including a question about educational attainment. So how does education relate to political views? With a whole summer of data at hand (10,000 respondents, 6/14/12-8/23/12 - the September polls are not included, as they are Likely Voter polls, not Registered Voter polls), we can aggregate the data and narrow down the variables to try to get a handle on this question.

First we'll remove race as a variable, and only look at respondents who are white (I would have also looked at data for racial minorities but these data are compromised). Second, only respondents older than 30 will be included (they've more than likely completed their education). All demographic subgroups shown in this post will have N>100 and an incorrect geography response rate of <10%.

There is a strong and obvious relationship between educational attainment and voter preference. Maybe that's why Republicans hate education so much. (And may I just insert a gentle reminder here that educational attainment is not the same thing as intelligence.)

But perhaps the data are skewed by unequal representation in additional demographic categories? What about income, gender, and region? More below...


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