The more degrees and collge education people recieve, the more likley they are to vote Democratic.\n\nEven teachers in secondary education are shown to be more democratic.\n\nWhy is this would YOU say?
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Teacher's are Union.\n\nDemocrat's = Union
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You are correct.  Many people are voting against someone rather than voting for someone.  IMHO, that is worse than not voting at all.  The "against" people are actually cancelling out the vote of someone believing in the issues.  In the last pres. election, I would ask people "who are you favoring and why?"  I didn't persuade to Dem or Rep.  But many people would say "Kerry, because I hate W. this or that, yadda, yadda."  Bill Clinton addressed a democratic convention of some sort and told them that the democratic party needs to be a party for something, not against something.  Unfortately, both parties have drifted even farther away from the center.  The right has gone too far right and the left has gone too far left.  The overall is still probably about center, but the standard devation is so huge that people spend more time arguing about something than acutally doing anything.
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Sorry. Have you ever had a history lesson? Has it ever occured to you that the reason the South votes Republican now is that it was almost exclusively run by Democrats, for Democrats for 120 years? During that period, we had corrupt, inefficient government, slow economic growth, terrible schools, racism, awful health care, regressive taxation, and cronyism to an unbelievable degree? Further, did you know that Southern states were far more statist economies than their northern counterparts, and far more in keeping with Democratic economic theory? With all that in mind, is it any wonder that Southerners reject the Democratic Party overwhelmingly? After all, if there was ever a laboratory for Democratic theories of governance, the South was it. \n\nNow that we have Republicans, we are actually have full employmment, less corruption, rapidly improving schools, and an economy that's rapidly outpacing the rest of the economy. \n\nSo rather than wonder why we're so stupid for voting Republican, consider for a moment that we do so out of experience.
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the major reason is the politics. they are using these issues and make those people to fight for them and all other things.. not only illeterate people all educated people and even graduates and post graduates.. and higher officials are in this .. who became BAKARA in these issues by politicians.
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First off, full disclosure:  I'm white, middle-aged (46), well-educated (2 bachelor's and a master's degree), and make a mid 6-figure income -- and almost always vote democratic, although NO party tells me what to do :)\n\nRace is the worst of the indicators you mention -- that used to be a better one, but it's changed much in the past 20 years.  Class is still a pretty good indicator:  poorer people vote more democratic, richer people vote more republican, and the middle-class is fairly well split.  However, religion trumps them all:  those who identify themselves as "fundamentalist" christian vote over 75% republican, as do mormons and a few other sects.  Catholics lean more heavily towards democratic (65%).  Most christians who do not identify as "fundamentalist" are pretty evenly split.  And those who say they have no religion are heavily democratic.\n\nWhy?  Because fundamentalist church leaders made huge contributions to the republicans, and "sold their souls" to that party -- at the same time, the republican party "sold their souls" to the fundamentalist christians, giving up many traditional republican ideals, in order to get as much of that block of people as possible.\nPower, that's why :(
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I believe people, Democrat or Republican, vote for a person on only ONE ISSUE, especially in recent elections around the country. A politician may state he will not vote for minimum wage, refuse to fix the Medicare disaster, and could care less about public schools, however, if that same person makes a stand against or for ONE ISSUE, then people will vote for that person.\n\nUnfortunately, that is how it is. Good luck with trying to change educational policies by going around him.
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They like power. They like being at the top of society. But, it also has to do with the fact that these nations have very limited histories in democracy. Democracy is a journey, NOT a destination.
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It shows that the system still works. When you look at the number of people that would have voted for Republicans under normal situations, they voted Democrat.\n\nIf roles were reverse (IE Democrats in control), we would see the same thing. Corruption is not acceptable in our government. We proved that!
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yeah i think it is. it was created in a time when the general masses were uneducated and therefore it was best to have some one who was educated to vote. The general public now has the opportunity to be educated about politics, even though many still choose not to be, the option still remains.
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They are two groups of people who have different ideas about how things should be done in the country, tell her that the idea of democracy is that the people get to decide which veiws they relate with. further explain to her that it is bad to become closedminded in ones following of a politcal party.
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It's a grand idea and I support the thought, but it will never happen. Politics is rooted in ideology. Even moderates are ideological in nature, they just do not follow the complete ideologies of the party structures. Those who are political enough to engage in the debate believe their position is the right one. Because we are rooted in ideology attacks against these beliefs will almost always produce visceral results and responses. In short, smear tactics work. The best you can hope for is that at least part of the electorate will be informed and make decisions based on facts rather than emotions. As for the rest, all I can say is voting is a right and while Democracy may not be perfect, it still beats the alternatives.
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B/c generally speaking the democrats try to publicly align themselves to the "poor" and "minors".  This is what they say in public avenues, whereas their personal opinions sometimes turn out to be quite the contrary.\n\nBut look at Hillary Clinton on MLK day, she made a speech comparing the republicans to "plantation owners".  The democrats specificially target the poor and what are considered to be "minorities" because they make a large % of voters and thus they hope to get their candidates into office by playing those cards.
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School boards are elected by the public. Politicians are elected by the public. I do agree with you to a degree but as the public we have the power to change things if it were important enough to us.
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>"African-Americans vote probably more democratic."\nUmmmm.....I'd say 85+% is more than "probably more Democrat"\n>"They vote for whoever they think is the best candidate. That's how it works."\nIf only that were true. most minority populations vote primarily as a block. that, unfortunately, is how it works.\nIf more poeple would vote for a candidate, and not for a party, candidates would have to do thier best to represent a set of ideals, rather than pander to special interests.
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No, because it's not right for teachers to influence students to believe what they believe.  Also, if a teacher was, say, Buddhist, and a student was say, Christian, or if the teacher was, say Democratic, and she talked about how she felt about the President, it might upset the student that the teacher is so different and that might be what they focus on instead of learning from the teacher.  We tend to look down on people who's religions are different, and if a student looks down at a teacher, how's he or she going to learn anything?  If the student is mad at what the teacher said to attack the President, wouldn't that take away from the concentration on the lesson?\n\nMy social studies teacher said that his goal was to not let anyone find out what he believes, if anything, or his political party, if he has one.That way, we will only judge him as an intelligent teacher instead of what he believes.
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I think the more interesting link is the link between conservative funding of education and social programs vs. those who vote conservative in the US...\n\nWhat I'm saying is... the south has the largest amount of poverty in the nation and has many states near the bottom in education... yet the states vote for Republicans, who don't support social programs to help those in poverty and the republicans don't support education programs, loans or grants...  \n\nI guess they are happy at the bottom?
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If the truth be told - there is no such thing as 'democracy' for all, and there never will be.\nSociety needs rules, the moment you have rules, you interfere with someones freedom - that is not democratic.