pres polls

Michael Perelman michael at ecst.csuchico.edu
Wed Jul 19 17:21:59 PDT 2000


Actually, I was thinking of grad student union organizers when I posted my note.

nathan.newman at yale.edu wrote:


> I would also bet that
> given the education skew of Nader's vote overall that the lower-income
> votes he gets are disproportionately highly-educated groups in those
> lower-income range (say academic types :) Given some of the Teamster
> and UAW verbal support for Nader, the less-educated part of his support
> could actually be coming from his higher-income range.
>
> As has been true all year - whether with Bradley, McCain or Nader - the
> so-called "protest vote" (except for Buchanan) has come
> disproportionately from the most educated wing of the electorate, in
> Nader's case overwhelmingly from the graduate school crowd.
>
> As is also true every election, the Dem vote increases as incomes drop.
>
> --- Nathan Newman

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