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At 05:42 PM 4/20/2010, brad bauerly wrote:
>SA wrote:
> >Not to beat a dead horse, but - once again - these income numbers are
>basically meaningless. Not only do the TP live more in the South. Not
>only do they live more in rural areas. They're also *much* more likely
>to be retired, which on average means lower current incomes (and lower
>mortgage payments).
>The only available data that give a reliable picture of overall SES are
>education. And when you look at real Tea Party supporters (people who
>say they follow news about the TP and strongly support it), their
>education profile as a group mirrors that of households around the 80+
>percentile.
>SA
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>Which data says that? One poll showed that TP 'activists' were more
>educated than the general public (big surprise), one showed TP supporters to
>be less educated than the general public (higher in some college, lower in
>college graduate and postgraduate degrees), and one showed supporters to
>be more educated. Same mix of results on retirement and age: some higher
>and some lower. You are kind of picking and choosing which results to
>highlight to make your point. Even then, if we take the results that show
>the highest education levels we only get a 12% increase in college grad and
>postgrad than the rest of the respondents. How does this put the whole
>group in the 80+ percentile?
>
>Brad
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