[MikefromOhio]

Check this out....hit the weblink for the actual table...

There was a discussion about the average IQ of a Kerry or a Bush supporter a few days ago. I was skimming along an Urban Legend site and found this little tidbit....

[onyx]

Hey Mike!
I see you're a short timer now.
Stay safe!

[Rain-maker]

Learning html is a good thing, do it!

Description:  Net hoax Circulating since:  Nov. 2004 (this version) Status:  False Analysis:  See below

IQ and Voter Preference

	State	Average IQ	2004
1	Connecticut	113	Kerry
2	Massachusetts	111	Kerry
3	New Jersey	111	Kerry
4	New York	109	Kerry
5	Rhode Island	107	Kerry
6	Hawaii	106	Kerry
7	Maryland	105	Kerry
8	New Hampshire	105	Kerry
9	Illinois	104	Kerry
10	Delaware	103	Kerry
11	Minnesota	102	Kerry
12	Vermont	102	Kerry
13	Washington	102	Kerry
14	California	101	Kerry
15	Pennsylvania	101	Kerry
16	Maine	100	Kerry
17	Virginia	100	Bush
18	Wisconsin	100	Kerry
19	Colorado	99	Bush
20	Iowa	99	Bush
21	Michigan	99	Kerry
22	Nevada	99	Bush
23	Ohio	99	Bush
24	Oregon	99	Kerry
25	Alaska	98	Bush
26	Florida	98	Bush
27	Missouri	98	Bush
28	Kansas	96	Bush
29	Nebraska	95	Bush
30	Arizona	94	Bush
31	Indiana	94	Bush
32	Tennessee	94	Bush
33	North Carolina	93	Bush
34	West Virginia	93	Bush
35	Arkansas	92	Bush
36	Georgia	92	Bush
37	Kentucky	92	Bush
38	New Mexico	92	Bush
39	North Dakota	92	Bush
40	Texas	92	Bush
41	Alabama	90	Bush
42	Louisiana	90	Bush
43	Montana	90	Bush
44	Oklahoma	90	Bush
45	South Dakota	90	Bush
46	South Carolina	89	Bush
47	Wyoming	89	Bush
48	Idaho	87	Bush
49	Utah	87	Bush
50	Mississippi	85	Bush

[trebb]

Heck - when compared to Kerry's military records, my records indicate I have a much higher IQ than he does. I'm a retired Air Force NCO and have settled in Mississippi and voted for Bush. I challenge Kerry to publicly prove me wrong.

[Paradox]

There is demographic evidence that would seem to indicate, by inference, that the average Kerry voter has a lower IQ than the average Bush voter. That's all I am gonna say.

[LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget]

Mike, all you have to do to post a table like that is to right click on the page in question. Select view source. Look for the < table> tag (no space between < and t), and start copying there. Look for the < /table> (no space) and stop copying there.

Then just paste it in a post. Easy as pie.

And to Rain-maker: In telling someone to go fish, vs. teaching them to fish, the teaching wins every time.

[Dutch Boy]

I wish someone would create a map of the blue counties and overlay a similar map. Since urban area heavily voted for Kerry, and urban areas are also the home of very poor performing schools it should be interesting.

A quick listen to Hannity's man in the street interviews easliy proven that New York City blue voters were dumb as a stump. Just before the election a huge number didn't even know Kerry's running mate they were going to vote for. My youngest daught knew that and could recite the major policies of both sides.

Just remember, there are lies, damn lies and statistics.

[tkathy]

I would think the red counties vs. the blue counties would show idiots living in the blue counties.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

It cannot be said enough. Nationwide, as people's education level increases, they are more likely to vote Republican, through the master's degree level. People with Ph.D's make a sharp turn to the left, however. I suspect that Ph.D's are statists who want to preserve the status quo which favors paper crendentials over experience and results. (Teachers should make less than truck drivers.)

[sgtbono2002]

Masachusetts gave us a Murderer and drunk (Kennedy), a war criminal and liar (Kerry) and a Queer(Barney Frank) and they are smarter?? I would rather be stupid.

What Mass. Genius figured the cost of the Big Dig?

My state Maryland came out good on the chart, has anyone ever visited the Counties where Kerry won?/ Believe me they are filed with affirmative action employees that got work thru lowered standards.

[-=Wing_0_Walker=-]

A psychiatrist evaluated BUSH and KERRY as far as their IQ. Bush is in the 95th Percentile of Intelligence, while Kerry is in the 91st percentile. (I believe FR may have had the article, so search if you wish). The shrink used various public data, which of course included military records (as available.) A TV talking head I watched asked Kerry about this and Kerry's only comments was (in effect), "I didn't release those records."

Campaign expenditures, hundreds of millions; Kerry's shock, priceless.

[sergeantdave]

Okay, let's try this one on the liberals - If IQ were measured in cents, Kerry supporters wouldn't have two pennies to rub together.

[hinckley buzzard]

The 'rat-libs have long flattered themselves on their intelligence. It is based, as far as I can tell, aside from general self-aggrandizement, on the observation that university faculties, with all their higher degrees, tend to be overwhelmingly liberal.

Of course the fact remains that the campus is a tightly isolated hothouse where all manner of strange and exotic intellectual mutants thrive, while their more rubust cousins who live and work in the real world take a very different voiew of the world. Overall, the higher the education, the more conservative the politics.

[Holden Magroin]

Liberals are imbeciles. Sixty million Americans agree!

[Lady Jag]

Don't hang your hat on those stats. The smartest people in those blue states voted for Bush.

[muir_redwoods]

I refuse to believe that there is a measurable difference in IQ on a state-by-state basis. Any US State has a high enough population to yield a normal distribution of IQ. Anyone who thinks that my state of Connecticut has an average IQ 28 points higher than the average IQ in Mississippi is dragging down the IQ in his state.

Not measurably though.

[MissouriConservative]

Here is the real IQ list by states and who they voted for

STATE

Avg. IQ	2004
New Hampshire	104	Kerry
Massachusetts	103	Kerry
Oregon	103	Kerry
Wisconsin	103	Kerry
Colorado	102	Bush
Connecticut	102	Kerry
Illinois	102	Kerry
Iowa	102	Bush
Kansas	102	Bush
Minnesota	102	Kerry
Montana	102	Bush
Nebraska	102	Bush
North Dakota	102	Bush
Oklahoma	102	Bush
Vermont	102	Kerry
Washington	102	Kerry
Alaska	101	Bush
Maryland	101	Kerry
Michigan	101	Kerry
Missouri	101	Bush
New York	101	Kerry
Ohio	101	Bush
Utah	101	Bush
Wyoming	101	Bush
Arizona	100	Bush
California	100	Kerry
Idaho	100	Bush
Maine	100	Kerry
Nevada	100	Bush
New Jersey	100	Kerry
Pennsylvania	100	Kerry
Rhode Island	100	Kerry
South Dakota	100	Bush
Virginia	100	Bush
West Virginia	100	Bush
Delaware	99	Kerry
Hawaii	99	Kerry
Indiana	99	Bush
Arkansas	98	Bush
Florida	98	Bush
Alabama	97	Bush
Georgia	97	Bush
Kentucky	97	Bush
Louisiana	97	Bush
North Carolina	97	Bush
Tennessee	97	Bush
Texas	97	Bush
New Mexico	96	Bush
District of Columbia	95	Kerry
Mississippi	94	Bush
South Carolina	94	Bush

[FreedomCalls]

That's not true, but this is:

White Total Fertility Rate	Bush %
USA	1.83	50.9%
Utah	2.45	71.1%
Alaska	2.28	61.8%
Idaho	2.20	68.5%
Kansas	2.06	62.2%
South Dakota	2.02	59.9%
Nebraska	2.02	66.0%
Oklahoma	2.01	65.6%
Wyoming	1.99	69.0%
Indiana	1.94	60.0%
Arkansas	1.94	54.3%
Texas	1.93	61.2%
Arizona	1.92	54.9%
Mississippi	1.92	59.6%
New Mexico	1.90	49.8%
Georgia	1.90	58.1%
Iowa	1.89	50.1%
Missouri	1.89	53.4%
Ohio	1.89	51.0%
Louisiana	1.88	56.7%
Michigan	1.88	47.8%
Montana	1.87	59.1%
Colorado	1.86	52.0%
Nevada	1.85	50.5%
Kentucky	1.85	59.5%
North Carolina	1.84	56.1%
Alabama	1.84	62.5%
Minnesota	1.83	47.6%
New Jersey	1.83	46.4%
Tennessee	1.83	56.8%
Virginia	1.82	54.0%
Maryland	1.81	43.3%
Illinois	1.80	44.6%
South Carolina	1.80	58.0%
Florida	1.78	52.1%
North Dakota	1.78	62.9%
West Virginia	1.78	56.0%
Wisconsin	1.78	49.4%
Oregon	1.76	47.6%
Connecticut	1.75	44.0%
Washington	1.72	45.6%
Pennsylvania	1.72	48.6%
New York	1.72	40.5%
Delaware	1.71	45.8%
New Hampshire	1.69	49.0%
California	1.65	44.5%
Maine	1.65	44.6%
Vermont	1.63	38.9%
Massachusetts	1.60	37.0%
Hawaii	1.59	45.3%
Rhode Island	1.50	38.9%
District of Columbia	1.11	9.3%

Democrats are literally aborting themselves out of existence!

[TexasCajun]

Just what does this say about those elitist Blue States that they get whooped by a bunch of ignorant redneck Christians from the Red States?

Oh! They let us win so President Bush and the R'ahs can really screw things up and set up a Hillary run in 2008.

(And they call us ignorant! Geezz!)

[TexasCajun]

Hey Mike. You're still in Iraq?

What's the talk on the street about the upcoming elections?

What's up with all this talk about postponing the election over there?

Is that from the people fearful of voting or the different sects postering themselves?

[Do not dub me shapka broham]

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