In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ronald Bloom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>In sci.stat.edu Herman Rubin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>> Paul Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>At this point, I have been shocked at the unprofessional, bias, and cluelessly
>>>partisan comments that have been made on this thread. Comments like "Bush vote
>> rs
>>>being more educated" do not reflect the educated mind, but rather the lawyerly
>>>temperament that Any argument is equally valid.
>> I suggest you look at the breakdowns made by the various
>> opinion polls. They all agreed on this.
> Your original comment was that "Bush voters are more likely
>to be literate". Now you may have *meant* "more likely
>to be MORE literate" You may have *meant* "...more educated".
>I am not accustomed to using "literate" and (by extension)
>"illiterate" as synonyms for "more educated" and "less educated".
>Are you?
With the estimates of functional illiteracy (this is the
exact term used) of high school graduates being fairly
high, and the type of literacy needed to know what one
is doing in casting a ballot being of this type, my
comment stands.
I do not remember the name of the county, but a heavily
Democratic county avoided the "butterfly" effect by
using two pages, and instructing those who had voted
on the first page to skip the next. Several thousand
did not, and the county went for Bush.
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