Just on the face of it, I would think there must be something wrong about the "military = conservative and warlike" stereotype. 1, a lot come from disadvantaged backgrounds. 2, in the case of any armed conflict, it's they who have to fight.
--- On Tue, 7/22/08, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
> From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
> Subject: [lbo-talk] troops not so conservative
> To: "lbo-talk" <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org>
> Date: Tuesday, July 22, 2008, 11:52 AM
> From: "Craighill, Peyton M"
> <Peyton.M.Craighill at abc.com>
> Date: July 22, 2008 11:29:49 AM EDT
> Subject: ABC News Blog: Taking Aim at the Military Vote
>
> Barack Obama is playing to a variety of audiences while he
> travels
> abroad this week, with stops in Iraq and Afghanistan as
> well as
> Europe. One of them is an interesting voting group that
> could pack
> some surprises: Active-duty U.S. military.
>
> Conventional wisdom holds that U.S. service members –
> including the
> 500,000 currently serving overseas – are a
> disproportionately
> Republican and conservative group. But that assumption is
> challenged
> by a unique survey of the U.S. Army done in 2004 by Maj.
> Jason
> Dempsey, then of West Point, and Prof. Robert Shapiro of
> Columbia
> University, via Columbia’s Institute for Social and
> Economic Research
> and Policy.
>
> Read the latest ABC News blog here
> http://blogs.abcnews.com/thenumbers/
>
>
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