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Offline thundley4

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Republicans Smarter than Democrats?
« on: February 09, 2010, 11:25:19 AM »
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A new Pew Research Center study provides evidence that Republican voters are smarter about current affairs, issues and news:
Republicans, on average, answered one more question correctly than Democrats (5.9 vs. 4.9 correct). These differences are partly a reflection of the demographics of the two groups; Republicans tend to be older, well educated and male, which are characteristics associated with political and economic knowledge. Still, even when these factors are held constant, Republicans do somewhat better than Democrats on the knowledge quiz.


Among the largest gaps comes over knowledge of who leads the U.S. Senate. About half (48%) of Republicans are able to identify Reid as the current majority leader, while only a third of Democrats can name their own party’s Senate leader. More Republicans can name Reid (48%) than Steele (37%), the RNC chairman.

The one question in the survey in which Democrats slightly outperform Republicans is about the number of women now serving on the U.S. Supreme Court. Close to six-in-ten Democrats (58%) know that more than one woman serves on the high court, compared with 50% of Republicans. Though the Democratic Party is made up of more women than men, this finding does not appear driven mostly by gender. Republican men and women are about equally likely to answer this question correctly (about half each), while solid majorities of both Democratic men (60%) and women (57%) get this question right.
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Re: Republicans Smarter than Democrats?
« Reply #1 on: February 09, 2010, 07:36:43 PM »
This MUST be on the DUmp somewhere... 
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Re: Republicans Smarter than Democrats?
« Reply #2 on: February 09, 2010, 08:50:13 PM »
This MUST be on the DUmp somewhere... 

LOL  Yeah, I'm sure it is....

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Re: Republicans Smarter than Democrats?
« Reply #3 on: February 09, 2010, 08:53:21 PM »
LOL  Yeah, I'm sure it is....

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Re: Republicans Smarter than Democrats?
« Reply #4 on: February 10, 2010, 10:07:41 AM »
Republicans need to be smarter because they vote on the issues.  Democrats vote on their feelings.