Brad Eckert wrote:
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(Charles Esson) wrote in message
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>> In the case of the US take a look at the map of the states that went
>> one way or the other and then think about which states are likely to
>> have people that have travelled outside the USA. It is very telling.
>
> You can view the correlation (by state) between mean IQ and election
> results here: http://chrisevans3d.com/files/iq.htm
There's a better, non-hoaxed correlation:
http://sq.4mg.com/stateIQ-income.htm
Note that the District of Columbia has an average IQ of only 95. That's
because the statistics were made during the last term, when Bush and
his gang lived in Wa****ngton DC, but they didn't vote there ;-).
To be serious: Bush isn't as dumb as he looks like. He is said to have
about the same IQ as John Kerry (124 vs. 122, Gore: 134), probably he
scores better on math or partying what he's worse on verbal stuff. The
biography of both - until they left university - is almost the same,
too: born on the east coast, part of the patrician class, bought their
way into elite university Yale. They are not in the 2% IQ elite.
Many Kerry voters are black, and with the US IQ tests, US blacks get an
average IQ of 85 (no matter where this comes from - they must have
problems with some tasks, motivation problems to solve a test like
that, or lack of training due to non-intellectual traditions). That's
also a likely reason why democratic voters have more problems with
butterfly ballots and things like that.
I honestly assume that most blacks would vote republican, if only the
republicans stopped being rassistic. It's like with the Turks in
Germany, and the German conservatives: they share exactly the same set
of "values" (anti-abortion, against women's rights, anti-homo***ual,
religious), and the only reason why German Turks won't vote them is
that the conservatives also are too xenophobic. Not that the Turks
weren't xenophobic themselves, but it's them who's the foreigner here.
Conservative politicians are not by nature more "stupid" than liberal
politicians. They may appeal more to stupid voters, since they usually
try to talk in simple words, but there's nothing wrong with clean and
short sentences as such. The funny thing is that they appeal to poorer
voters, despite they give to the rich. And they do that even though
there's a clear and very prominent bible passage that condemns the
rich, and praises the poor.
--
Bernd Paysan
"If you want it done right, you have to do it yourself"
http://www.jwdt.com/~paysan/
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