Academic Voters Could Push Obama to Victory in Key Swing States
Although the group is solidly Democratic, McCain isn't giving up on them without a fight
Although Obama should count most faculty in his camp, Kathleen Hall Jamieson, an expert in political communication at the University of Pennsylvania, cautions against painting professors with too broad a brush. Some colleges feature liberals and conservatives cheek by jowl; others, many of them religious schools, are staunchly conservative. Meantime, less is known about teachers at community colleges and technical and trade schools.
To presidential campaigns, students represent more than potential votes. They are young, energetic, and tech-savvy and often have free time, so many are recruited as foot soldiers. "Who else is going to put in 16-hour days for very low pay?" asks Dante Scala, a political scientist at the University of New Hampshire. He says his school on its own is unlikely to make a difference in his battleground state. But if the race remains close, and if one adds campuses such as Dartmouth College and Keene State College to the mix, then voting by the so-called academics could be critical to the outcome of the election in the Granite State and other contested states across the country.
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Are these the educated comments????
If these are the comments from educated Democrats then maybe there are different standards of education across our country. McCain is a piece of garbage? Put Hillary on the ticket to appeal to the uneducated? I am in the healthcare field and you are mad at Sen Obama about not having a single payer health system? check out Medicare and Medicaid, the big goverment answer is not for this problem. Check out the voters that put Sen Obama over the top to beat Hillary Clinton and they were not a very educated bunch but I am sure the lemmings who follow Sen Obama would never admit that. If these are the opinions of the Obama followers than maybe I just might have to push the McCain button just to watch all of you whine four more years.
wife cheating McCain
Funny, the media turns a blind eye on the wife cheating McCain and concentrates on Edwards. Is Edwards running for president? McCain says all americans are behind Georgians... I beg to differ. After making those bold statements to Georgia and having a campaign staff who lobby's for an invading country make false promises, no one seems to follow such blunders up. So much for the foreign expert McCain. I wonder if the 'Shrub' in the white house has any thing to say. May be, we are abiding to the "New Jersey Plan." President ...and president McCain. I forgot, we have big guns and can kill the rest of the world that questions our motives and we can make all states democratic nations. The Bush/McCain ticket has the nerve to invoke invation of another country in the 21st century. Are we as a country so out of it to sense the hypocratic verse of such accusations of Russia? When you invade a Russian speaking territory, sorry you will pay the prize. It is time for the media to speak the truth and stop misleading the public. I am not advocating the move of Russia as the correct answer. Rather if we are to place blame, we as a people should hold our press and public officials to the same standards. Guess what might have happened, if Obama had make those remard by McCain to Georgia. I rest my case.
right on target
Evangelicals are no better than Muslim fanatics. In fact, although both religions boast peace and love via their prophets word, they are both war mongers and love the military. Where i live i am surrounded by those morons and it is simply impossible to have an intelligent rational conversation with them. When their backs are to the wall they close the conversations with "youll be going to hell young man if youre not careful" "never mind what you say it is written therefore it must be so" and finally, the coupe de grace "god wrote the bible how can he be wrong?"
well the earth isnt the center of the world but that doesnt seem to matter much.
Next step folks, dont miss the "Torquema returns" opening to box offices in South Carolina and Mecca.
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