(08-27-2014 09:12 AM)UofMstateU Wrote:  

(08-27-2014 09:07 AM)john01992 Wrote:  

(08-27-2014 07:00 AM)WKUApollo Wrote:  

(08-26-2014 10:42 PM)john01992 Wrote:  

(08-26-2014 03:00 PM)WKUApollo Wrote:  Sadly, truth and statistics, ratings, etc. are rarely in sync.

Here's some interesting data:

President Obama won the high school dropout vote in 2012 65-34 percent.
President Obama narrowly lost the college graduate vote to Romney in 2012.
Among current college students President Obama only won that vote 49-48 percent.

One of the great misperceptions about President Obama's electorate is that the young support him in huge numbers. In actuality, the high school dropout youth supported him by a wide margin. It's not that college students overwhelmingly support President Obama that was the real news story in the last few years, it was that President Obama gained among college students and pulled about even with the Republicans. That's telling. In 2004 President Bush won the current college student electorate 54-46 over the Democrat. If you hear the news media, you'd never know that. What you assume is that college students overwhelming favor the Democrat.......not the case at all.

this is what pisses me off about the cons on this forum. you guys intentionally misrepresent information or use selective information. it's proof that you guys have a mentality of "I don't want to argue the truth, I just want to argue that my party is correct"

sure obama won the "some college" category 49-48 and lost the "college graduate" category 51-47. but what you conveniently omit is that he won the "post graduate study" category 55-42

Lol Dude. Obvious to most people, save you evidently, I was merely trying to show that the the educated folks didn't overwhelmingly vote for Obama and the uneducated only vote for Republicans, as you imply with your Fox News data. Of course, I could break down the numbers into minute little subsets to demonstrate some point (i.e. post grads, ethnic studies majors, fashion design majors, etc.) but small subsets would make me appear to be stretching, scraping, desperate, etc.

I'll give you the post grad numbers. Yippee. My points are still valid. Obama was a huge winner with high school dropouts (typically low information voters). It's about even with voters in college (which defies the message libs want to portray) and Republicans won the overall college graduate voting block, minus the post grad group.....even then, they only won 55%.

your points are not valid, the whole conservative mantra is about being afraid of change & progress even in the face of logic. it is a political movement based off of fear and having corporate influenced into their talking points. I mean seriously you have evolution and climate change denial, plus half your party thinks obama is a socialist or a muslim, the other half thinks there is a "gay agenda" to take over this country. if I had a dollar for every conservative conspiracy theory that was introduced to this forum by a con I'd have a fat wallet.

And if you had to pay back $1 for each of those theories that proved to be true, you'd be flat broke, and the only thing left in your wallet would be the government issued condom you've had since high school.

wait, you mean there really is a liberal conspiracy to destroy this nation with gaydom????