Why the GOP lost highly educated voters

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Registered: 07-23-2008
Why the GOP lost highly educated voters
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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+).

http://www.newsweek.com/id/167618





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Registered: 12-20-2006
Thu, 11-06-2008 - 9:26pm

I agree.

 


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Registered: 10-08-2008
Fri, 11-07-2008 - 6:49am

I know McCain lost my father's vote (my dad's a research zoologist).


 

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Registered: 03-27-2003
Tue, 11-11-2008 - 9:27pm
no child left behind was NOT bush's idea. it was ted kennedy's baby. bush passed it in order to "reach across the aisle" so to speak. It cracks me up how much people blame GW for everything wrong in the last 8 years.
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Registered: 03-23-2008
Tue, 11-11-2008 - 9:49pm

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.


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Registered: 12-20-2006
Tue, 11-11-2008 - 10:52pm

Oh, but NCLB is certainly Bush's doing.

 


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Registered: 12-20-2006
Tue, 11-11-2008 - 10:57pm

Thank you!!


NCLB is his "baby", regardless of what others want to think.

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Registered: 03-23-2008
Tue, 11-11-2008 - 11:16pm

Yep and he started working on it the day he got into office.


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Registered: 07-19-2007
Wed, 11-12-2008 - 2:10pm
I know in my circle of highly educated professional friends (most have graduate degrees or above) Obama did very well. In Northern Virginia many highly educated people have had to move their children to private school thanks to the no-child-left-behind act. The talk amongst the parents at my son's school is that the act promotes mediocrity. Our economy is spiraling down at record pace and we counter that with ensuring that our children will not be able to compete on a global scale by watering down our education system. That is why the GOP lost the votes in my area amongst my peer group.

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Registered: 09-25-2008
Wed, 11-12-2008 - 3:08pm

No, it wasn't.

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Registered: 08-26-2007
Wed, 11-12-2008 - 3:23pm

Just want to re-iderate that NCLB is absolutley Bush's.

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