The Dems seem to be in big trouble,

if you believe the polls, and I'm sure they are, BUT, probably not nearly so bad as pollsters would have you believe. Their predictions are based on questions asked 'over the phone' by people who will actually listen to them, and put up with the inconvenience, which is primarily the older, stay at home crowd, who hasn't gotten rid of their land line altogether. The younger, more educated voters, who don't get their news from FOX, and fall for their lies, overwhelmingly vote w/the Dems, aren't being heard from, in the same %. I know my folks talk w/everyone huckster who calls them, (even when they have company), cuz they are too polite to just hang up, SO, that part of the population is being over represented. Not saying the Dems aren't in trouble, BUT, I doubt if it's as bad as the pollsters would have us believe from their phone polling.

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Anonymous said…
So your saying educated people vote Democratic and vice versa?
11:34 AM
Fam Guy said…
Here's a fact for you anon. The top ten education/income states are ALL blue. The bottom ten are ALL red. Coincidence? I don't think so.
11:50 AM
Fam Guy said…
As a person becomes better educated, it is harder to fool them or have them believe FOXNews type lies. Fox preys on the uneducated and uninformed, playing on their fears.
11:54 AM
ladyj said…
And you are going to find, especially in the south, more and more political practice from the pulpit. Your minister is telling YOU who to for for and who to vote against based on SCRIPTURE.
For example: was watching John Hagee the other day, a pastor out of Texas who is anti-Obama to the nth degree and pro Republican, speaking on Obama's "New World Order" agenda. My my, my and another OH MY! I heard those same words coming out the the mouth of President George H.W. Bush during his administration, but he is a Republican. Well, hush my mouth, but never did I hear a word from Pastor Hagee about the Senior Bush! Where was he then? Probably eating dinner at the Whitehouse with the prez and Babs....ya think?
6:49 PM
Anonymous said…
Sweeping generalizations like Blue states have the top 10 income/education ratios don't stand up to the data. West Virginia (according to the U.S. Census bureau), which is generally blue, has the lowest income and education percentages, while Wyoming and Alaska show up in the top 10. Besides, states can change. In the last four Presidential elections, Colorado voted Republican in three of those. Does that make Colorado a red state. Not really.

Also, you state that only older, stay at home folks answer surveys. The younger, more educated, don't participate. This is not true. Any valid survey would take age into account. In fact, Gallup does this, and includes a minimum number of cell phone only users.

Besides, the statement "younger, more educated voters" is nonsense. What makes them "more educated?"

So your stereotyping is based on what your parents do? Or, maybe you get your news from MSNBC.
6:02 AM
ladyj said…
My husband is 8 years younger than I, refuses telephone polls regardless the subject, while I, age 62, will answer these polls/surveys. Both my husband & I are educated beyond high school in specialized fields. He was born and raised in Ohio & I Oklahoma born, raised in Kansas. I have lived in 7 states besides the aforementioned. What does that make me - a blue or a red? I also tend to vote for the man, not the party, although I am a registered Republican, I've not voted the party since Reagan.
7:09 AM
Anonymous said…
You sound like an independent to me.
8:40 AM
Fam Guy said…
W Virginia a blue state? McCain carried it in 2008. The only exception was Alaska, which is a truly unusual state with a disproportionate population/income. If you consider just education, it's all blue state top ten, red state bottom ten. Pretty obvious distinction.
9:41 AM
Fam Guy said…
You're saying the 'younger, more educated voter', falls in the Red camp? Not even close. I've NEVER gotten a poll call on my cell phone, nor has anyone I've talked to, about it. I know MANY, young, well educated folks who don't have a land line, but NONE in the older generation. Speaking of Red/Blue, just check out where the heart of the Repub party lies. MS, LA, AL, TX, West Virginia, etc, the home of obesity, high school dropouts, fried food and Fox News. The centers of business/income/education are the Northeast and Northwest, solidly blue, no matter what you'd LIKE to believe, the facts aren't there for you, Mr Anon.
10:20 AM
Anonymous said…
Of the five senators and representatives to the u.s. congress from west virginia, four are democrat. The governor is a democraft. Their speaker of the house is a democrat. In the last 10 presidential elections, democrats carried W.V. five times.

So, yea, I'd say W.V. is blue.

Gallup requires, in a poll of 1,000 likely voters, that a minimum of 150 are cell phones. Sorry you weren't included.
12:50 PM
Fam Guy said…
I, like most, judge a state as red/blue on how they voted in the latest prez election, BUT, if we bend the criteria to fit your definition, you may get one red state in the top ten income, (not education) with Alaska (cuz they got oil), and the blues would have to take WV, even though they went for McCain. Congratulations, even bending definitions for red/blue states on income/education, you got one red in the top ten (sorta) and we got got one blue in the bottom ten (sorta). Thanks for helping me prove my point. More education=higher income=blue state. Less education=lower income=red state. Pretty obvious to anyone that really looks at it.
1:40 PM
ladyj said…
There's alot of folks in West Virginia still using outhouses!! I'd say their asses are blue in the winter and red in the summer, wouldn't ya'll? Sometimes a splinter are two.
3:02 PM
ladyj said…
As I recall, one of my parents was a Republican and the other a Democrat. My mother being from Tennessee and my father being from Oklahoma; Dad having an 8th grade education, he's 92 now and Mother was high school educationed and a Beautican by trade, prior to marriage. So, when they voted, they would cancel each other out. It was quite a joke at our home. I cannot recall who was red and who was blue, but now that he is old & quite Baptist he is MOST Conservative, to the point that he squeaks when he walks, he's so damn uptight.
3:11 PM
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