(B) The Jewish Republican will say: "The trouble with my people is precisely that they don't know is what is best for the country. Add this to their stubborn refusal to encourage GOP advances of the kind we hold dear to our hearts, like civil rights and equal rights and firm pro-Israel policies, and you get this ... embarrassing stick-in-the-mud uniformity which is -- and we don't say that either -- very dumb because it minimizes our influence. If the Dems can always count on us, what do they have to lose by offending us?"
On the question of education and political wisdom, the breakdown is once again interesting and paradoxical. The voters who graduated from college went more for the GOP (51) than for the Democrats (45; 3 went to Nader). Republican spinmasters don't mind at all the implications of that: Get a college education and learn enough to prefer the GOP!
What irritates is that those who go on to postgraduate education head out in the wrong direction (52 Democratic, 44 Republican). It is a strange circular voyage, because voters who didn't even graduate from high school are stoutly (59-39) Democratic. If we institute post-postgraduate training, voters who undertook it might find themselves as smart politically as those who didn't go on beyond grammar school.
The comfortable thesis that the rich go automatically to the GOP is once again shot full of holes. It is safe to say that there is a tendency in that direction, but they are, unlike blacks and Jews, in relatively level waters. Even among those who earn less than $15,000, there are GOP voters (37). When you reach incomes over $50,000, the Republicans are strong (52) but not overwhelming. And that margin of 52 climbs a mere 2 points for voters who make over $100,000. Forty-three percent of the very affluent voted Democratic, which raises the question, If you're so rich, why aren't you smart?