statistics I'm quite happy with

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Most educated does not mean smart.

Also, most of them are northeast states which are generally democrat anyway. Also most of them are around 60-40 which means a large amount still voted for romney. There might be a slight correlation between education and political party preference but this is nothing telling and not even close to something that can be called statistics.
 

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Most educated does not mean smart.

Fuzzy agrees. But educated people know when politicians are lying; when the math doesn't add up; when laws oppress them; that some news sources are better than others; that they can question authority; that they can think critically; that there are many alternative views; that dogma can do more harm that good; that representatives don't always represent.
 

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Fuzzy agrees. But educated people know when politicians are lying; when the math doesn't add up; when laws oppress them; that some news sources are better than others; that they can question authority; that they can think critically; that there are many alternative views; that dogma can do more harm that good; that representatives don't always represent.
This I can agree with.
 

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Fuzzy agrees. But educated people know when politicians are lying; when the math doesn't add up; when laws oppress them; that some news sources are better than others; that they can question authority; that they can think critically; that there are many alternative views; that dogma can do more harm that good; that representatives don't always represent.

While I'll agree with you to a point if a person doesn't have good common sense, all their "book smarts" are useless.

Well educated doesn't = know it all.

I've always said I'd take comon sense over book smarts any day.
 

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Your kidding right? Nearly half of americans are too stupid to understand the earth is millions of years old, not thousands....and almost all of them vote republican.

Gotta love these sweeping statements.

I suppose you believe everyone that voted democrat belongs to Mensa?
 

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Your kidding right? Nearly half of americans are too stupid to understand the earth is millions of years old, not thousands....and almost all of them vote republican.
Ahem, it's billions--about 4.5 of them--not millions. But, of course, for a large part of the Republican base, all such figures are "lies straight from the pit of hell," in the phrase of Rep. Paul Broun (R-GA), a member of the US House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology.
 

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dumbphone typo. sorry.

i firmly believe the ability for nearly half the nation to understand the earth is NOT younger than the history of K9 domestication is the biggest issue keeping US from moving forward into this next century.

how can an electorate be informed if half of US are so utterly out of touch with reality?
 

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Ask the religious right, how old they think the Earth is.


Do you have a source for this claim that half of americans believe that the earth is a mere few thousand years old? Do you have a source for this claim that all of these people voted for Romney?
 

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did I say they all voted for romney? when you follow "all" with "most", it no longer means 100%.
the fact is the crazy fundamentalists vote predominantly GOP, they have for years. no need for a link there..

but heres one tracking how clueless to reality nearly half the US is,

In U.S., 46% Hold Creationist View of Human Origins

we can never have an informed electorate until fundamentalists can learn see outside their tiny little bubble.
 

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did I say they all voted for romney? when you follow "all" with "most", it no longer means 100%.
the fact is the crazy fundamentalists vote predominantly GOP, they have for years. no need for a link there..

but heres one tracking how clueless to reality nearly half the US is,

In U.S., 46% Hold Creationist View of Human Origins

we can never have an informed electorate until fundamentalists can learn see outside their tiny little bubble.
That article shows a creationist view of humans, not earth. That has nothing to do with how old earth is. In addition, that article shows that a large number of democrats hold the same belief in regards to humans (58% to 41%).

Also, "almost all" means nearly all, not just most. Even "most" is probably inaccurate.