Comparing the Votes of the Rich and the Poor

(Blog Post) As just about everybody knows by now, richer Americans tend to vote Republican while poorer Americans go for the Democrats. But this isn't true for all groups. For an amusing example that we discussed in our book, a survey found that richer journalists Full Story »

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Dwight Rousu
2.8
by Dwight Rousu - Oct. 28, 2009

The data is extensive and massaged into differences and ratios that are not intuitive to the casual observer. The meaning and interpretation of the results is left to the reader as an exercise.

This seems to imply a great social importance to wealth. It seems to find it surprising that morality and education might reverse political choices.

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