On 07 Nov, 2004, at 17:37, Dubin, Elisabeth wrote:
This is quite funny. Ok, I'll bite. What non-partisan political analysts would those be?
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of William H. Magill BTW, while neither has released the actual numbers, quite a number of actually non-partisan political analysts (yes they do exist) have indicated that Bush probably has a higher IQ than Kerry.
There are a number of Blog sites that have covered the topic.
The original "story" was broken by Steve Sailer http://www.vdare.com/sailer/kerry_iq_lower.htm
and then picked up by other entities like the New York Times and NBC Nightly News, as well as a host of other bloggers.
Sailor's original post is quite verbose (it makes me sound abrupt), but the gist of it is that Kerry scored in the 50th percentile in the AFQT (Armed Forces Qualifying test) as posted on Kerry's website, and Bush scored in the 75th.
This blog discusses the collection of blogs discussing the topic.
http://thrasymachus.typepad.com/thras/2004/10/kerrys_iq.html
If I remember correctly, it was Tim Russert of NBC who made the comment on several occasions to the effect that, "throughout his political career, Bush has been considered "dumb" by his opponents, to their ultimate consternation; his "folksy" ways are simply not understood in the Urban centers, and are interpreted as the "dumb hillbilly" stereotype."
Interviewed by Brokaw, Kerry had this to say...
"Brokaw: Do you think he's [Bush's] a smart man? Kerry: I do. Yes, I do think he's a smart man.
�Brokaw: Do you think too many people in your party underestimate?
Kerry: I think people have always underestimated President Bush. But I'm proud that in those debates, I didn't underestimate him."
http://www.isteve.com/04OctB.htm#brokaw
These threads make fascinating reading ... but as one blogger put it "Who cares!"
[All of the assorted complaints about "standardized testing" are enumerated somewhere in at least one of the threads.]
[If you want more reading, just "Google" "bush kerry IQ" -- there are at least 100 entries out of 92,000 that are appropriate!]
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