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Wednesday, February 25, 2009

The perception gap

Andrew Sullivan, on Jindal:

as if he were talking to kindergartners


Nate Silver, on Jindal:

If it sounds like Jindal is targeting his speech to a room full of fourth graders, ...


hummm....

There are 93 million - million - Americans with "basic" or below literacy levels (pic-link).



If you follow Rove and Limbaugh, they hardly seem to be appealing to the most educated of voters. Yet, the summary statistics on GOP voters suggest that it is the Democratic party that wins a larger share of the least educated voters.

Discuss - because I don't really know how that all sorts out.

I dared to put up this impolitic chart a while back:

The Failing Electorate