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Poll Confirms Ivy League's Leftist Slant
NewsMax.com ^ | 1/15/02 | Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff

Posted on 01/15/2002 12:44:36 PM PST by kattracks

It's even worse than we thought: More than 80 percent of Ivy League professors who voted in 2000 chose loser Al Gore and only 9 percent voted for President Bush, a new survey reveals.

Only 3 percent of the out-of-touch eggheads described themselves as Republicans, the poll by Luntz Research Cos. found, and - we are not making this up - the profs picked Bill Clinton as best president of the past 40 years, the Washington Times reported today.

"All that this survey shows is what we already know, that the elite universities are subsidiaries of the Democratic Party and political left," said David Horowitz, president of the Center for the Study of Popular Culture, which commissioned the poll.

The profs' goose-stepping conformity "disappointed" Frank Luntz, the Republican pollster whose firm conducted the survey.

Where's the Diversity?

"I think if parents saw the political leanings of these professors, they'd be upset," he told the Times. "I think universities should insist on the same diversity in their faculty that they look for in their students. I have a problem when these faculties have no Republican or conservative representation at all."

Here are some other fascinating tidbits from the poll:



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1 posted on 01/15/2002 12:44:36 PM PST by kattracks
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To: kattracks
I have a continuing problem describing these morons as "elites." An elite is, by definition, of the highest quality. What high quality do these not very bright Marxist hacks demonstrate? Vanity, perhaps; certainly not anything of value.

I propose we stop calling them "elites" and call them something truly descriptive. Know Nothings? Useful Idiots (not original, but oh, so true)? Armchair Organisms (never actually _done_ anything but determined to tell the rest of us what we should do)? Virtual People? I kind of like the last one best.

3 posted on 01/15/2002 12:50:10 PM PST by pabianice
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To: kattracks
Thanks for the interesting post -- Bump!

Like I commented to my cousin, these issue distributions track pretty closely with what's been reported for the East Coast media from time to time over the last 30 years.

So it raises the interesting question: why do the major media track with the Ivies, and not with wider academic opinion? Or do academics nationwide track with both the Ivies and the media people?

This is an interesting development, and I smell the operation of a couple of strong filters here. I don't think they got to these extremes of distribution by attraction and acculturation only, but also by subtraction. In other words, I suspect that these numbers are reflective of numbers of people of other views who aren't here.

5 posted on 01/15/2002 12:58:55 PM PST by lentulusgracchus
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To: kattracks
Educating the young into the pinko mindset has always been one of the primary tactics of the leftists for survival and expansion of their agenda. However, observing the rebirth of churches in the old USSR after 70+ years of repression and re-education of the populace, it is obvious that this scheme is anything but foolproof.
7 posted on 01/15/2002 1:14:37 PM PST by E=MC<sup>2</sup>
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yep, ivy league (and the near ivies, too) are full of pinkos. very old news. been true since at least 1960. of course the result of that has been a rapid move to the right!!! what you prof pontificates on becomes very rancid. indeed the straight laced conservative profs of the 50s probably caused the 60s by the same principal.
8 posted on 01/15/2002 1:27:39 PM PST by memetic
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To: kattracks
This is widely true of almost all the academics I know. Even relatively sensible academics, whom their politically correct colleagues think of as hard-core conservatives, are liberal by any normal standard. In my department of about 35 faculty, I'm sure I'm the only one who voted Republican.
9 posted on 01/15/2002 2:56:02 PM PST by Cicero
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To: kattracks
When I see stories like this I'm always reminded of Bill Buckley's comment that he'd rather be governed by the first 500 people in the New Haven phone book than the faculty of Yale.
10 posted on 01/15/2002 4:26:02 PM PST by COL. FLAGG
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