Why John McCain Continues to Trail Barack Obama in Pennsylvania
High-income, high-education voters in the suburbs of big metro areas, my hypothesis goes, are preoccupied with long-term wealth accumulation—and react sharply against the Republican Party when their wealth is suddenly sharply diminished when there is a Republican president. Modest-income, modest-education voters in less affluent surroundings, it seems judging from McCain's relatively good showing in Pennsylvania outside the heavily populated southeast, ... Full Story »
Posted by Chris Finnie
Barone fails to consider that the affluent may be voting against their economic interests, but that they are voting their cultural insistincts i.e. exactly how rural voters vote Republican. Since McCain has been running an anti-science, anti-intellectual, highly bigoted campaign, maybe educated voters are turned off?