Alex Palazzo examines why so many scientists are voting for Obama — or, in more cases, voting against conservatives. Bottom line: they attack scientists with “inconvenient truths” as pushy society-tinkering elitists, and trot out their own pet “think tanks” to provide rhetorical cover for their preferences.
What scientists see in the GOP is a culture that neglects professional opinions when constructing national policy, a political operation that seeks to poison our national discourse and an unbridled self-serving ideology that has led to economic turmoil and an uncertain future.
From free-markets, to health care policy, to education, to the war in Iraq, to global warming, Scientists look at the GOP and see a commitment to an idea, right-wing ideology, despite reality itself might be telling us. And this is why almost all scientists are voting against the GOP ticket this election cycle.
Interestingly, that ties into the Jeffrey Hart article in terms of ideology trumping knowledge.
Electoral-vote.com notes a correlation in swing states between the general education level of the populace, and the lead Obama has.
Draw your own conclusions who the least educated vote for.