Why the GOP lost highly educated voters
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Why the GOP lost highly educated voters
| Thu, 11-06-2008 - 8:36pm |
From what I have been hearing lately, Obama won the vote from highly educated people (graduate degrees) by a large margin. As a scientist, I can say that the damage done to the scientific community by the Bush administration has been incredibly detrimental. This article explains why the GOP lost the vote of EVERY scientist that I spoke with about this election (probably 30+).



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I agree.
I know McCain lost my father's vote (my dad's a research zoologist).
According to the U.S. Department of Education, No Child Left Behind was President Bush's idea.
"President Bush has made education his number one domestic priority. On January 23, 2001, he sent his No Child Left Behind plan for comprehensive education reform to Congress. At that time, he asked members of Congress to engage in an active bipartisan debate on how we can use the federal role in education to close the achievement gap between disadvantaged and minority students and their peers. The result, the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, embodies the four principles of President George W. Bush's education reform plan: stronger accountability for results, expanded flexibility and local control, expanded options for parents, and an emphasis on teaching methods that have been proven to work."
http://www.ed.gov/nclb/overview/intro/factsheet.html
You can argue that he wasn't the only one responsible for it, but the truth is that it was his idea, his platform and he is the one who ultimately signed it into law.
Oh, but NCLB is certainly Bush's doing.
Thank you!!
NCLB is his "baby", regardless of what others want to think.
Yep and he started working on it the day he got into office.
MikieMom
MikieMom
No, it wasn't.
Just want to re-iderate that NCLB is absolutley Bush's.
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