[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Two groups who vote overwhelmingly Democrat: PhDs and unemployed. Get someone to take on a mountain of student debt to get a PhD and then make sure he never gets a job and you’ll have a Democrat for life.

Mission accomplished.

[Wonder Warthog]

"Two groups who vote overwhelmingly Democrat: PhDs and unemployed."

I think that may be true of non-science academic PhD's, and possibly some academic science PhD's. Most of the science and "working for businesses" PhD's I know are conservative.

[PapaBear3625]

Two groups who vote overwhelmingly Democrat: PhDs and unemployed.

You have to distinguish between academic PhDs and private-industry PhDs. The PhD who depends on government grant money is naturally going to favor the expansion of government, because a bigger government will have more money to spend on an increasingly large number of topics.

[Reily]

Usually PhD’s in science and engineering worked toward the degree as research or teaching assistants. They get paid (not a lot but enough to live on as a student!) and get tuition wavers. So they usually don't accumulate the debt as do the liberal arts majors.

The article was typical liberal SOP take one case where there is a science jobs problem then extrapolate it to all science career tracks.