Posted on 11/24/2010 6:12:30 PM PST by dselig
Sarah Palin, the former Alaska governor, is among the more natural populist politicians of our time, frequently critiquing elites in the press, the Democratic Party, and the Republican establishment. It is one of the reasons — along with her working-class background and the sense of authenticity that she can often convey — that she is so popular with some voters.
One potential problem for Ms. Palin, however, is that plenty of well-to-do and well-educated voters — those whom we might think of as belonging to the elite — will be participating in the Republican primaries.
Three recent surveys of Republican primary voters suggest significant divides in support for Ms. Palin based on the educational attainment of the voter. A poll released this morning by Marist College show Ms. Palin as the first choice of 17 percent of Republicans who have not graduated from college, giving her a slight lead among that group. But her support is just 7 percent among Republican college graduates, which placed her fifth behind Mitt Romney, Mike Huckabee, Newt Gingirch and Chris Christie.
A Quinnipiac poll, likewise, finds Ms. Palin with the support of 22 percent of Republicans who have not graduated from college, but of 10 percent of those who have. A CNN poll, meanwhile — using a slightly different criterion that focuses on whether voters attended college, whether or not they graduated from it — finds Ms. Palin drawing 20 percent of Republican voters who haven’t attended college, but only 9 percent of those who have.
The candidate whose numbers move in an opposite direction from Ms. Palin is Mitt Romney. On average over the three surveys, he had the support of 15 percent of “no college” voters, but 25 percent of Republicans with higher levels of educational attainment.
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Oh, please!
Sam Tanenhous, David Brooks...um...ah.....Oh, and that gay guy that lives down by the Battery. That's three!
LOL!
I like Palin, and I’d vote for Palin were she the nominee, but Haley Barbour, Chris Christie and Jeb Bush are my preferred candidates.
Romney’s support of universal health care will be his downfall.
The Rinocratic Oligarchy gets antsy when the peons and peasants start to get uppity....
New York Times support limited to bed-wetting, purse-carrying cretins who sleep with poodles in basements.
Ph.D here and very much a Palin supporter.
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