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Education and election
Actually, according to polls both before the election and exit polls, the more
educated you were, the more likely you were to vote for Bush. The gap was
greatest amongst those who did not complete high school. It's the biggest
demographic gap in the entire statistical set.
Ignoring ideology and the "nya nya" factor for a moment, I can think of one
excellent reason - you don't have to be in the "top one percent" of income to
benefit from Bush updating the tax laws, which still assume that $40K/year is
mad money, just like it was in the early Seventies when these tax laws were
originally passed. My wife and I would have saved $7500 last year ALONE had a
Bush tax code update been in place. (Just for reference, even my bosses' boss
is probably not in that top one percent.) Educated tend to have good jobs, and
be able to do the math on such things. I think you have to be a union
electrician in Hollywood with a hybrid electric vehicle to benefit from a Gore
plan. That, and Gore's drug plan for the elderly isn't means tested, which
means that poor thirtysomethings would be paying for expensive prescription
drugs of millionaires who happen to be over 65 - not smart, even by liberal
standards.
The electoral college gives a balance to the small states. The Senate has the
exact same function. We don't throw out our constitution every time we loose
like a banana republic. As it stands, you see a "NYC-DC axis" in the states
that went for Gore. It's a lot like living in Illinois, where the rest of the
state is fiscally strip mined to pay for the homes of Chicago politicians. Do
we really want the same thing on a national scale? More so than we have now,
that is.
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