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Political Divide Gets Wider

Midterm Republican sweep wasn't consistent across US

By kokuaguy,  Newser User

Posted Nov 21, 2010 3:05 PM CST | Promoted on Newser Nov 21, 2010 4:55 PM CST

(User Submitted) – Unlike the midterm election victory in 1994 when Republican gains were consistent across the US, the 2010 GOP sweep shows a widening of the gulf between large urban areas on the coasts and the less populated areas in the middle of the country. Analysis in the Washington Post finds GOP voters were more rural, older, less diverse, and less educated than in places where Democrats tended to hold their own.

Exit polls showed steep declines in white, non-college-educated Democrat voters, but there is good news for Dems as well. Minority voters and the more educated Obama supporters remain loyal, and 54% of the largest counties voted Democrat in 2010, up from 49% in 1994. The GOP picked up only one seat in the Pacific West, down from 10 seats in 1994. Read the full article.

From left, Lance Hurley, John Rosado, and Mitch Markovich march into the Tea Party Express rally at the Arizona Capitol Friday, Oct. 22, 2010, in Phoenix.
From left, Lance Hurley, John Rosado, and Mitch Markovich march into the Tea Party Express rally at the Arizona Capitol Friday, Oct. 22, 2010, in Phoenix.   (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
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zaglossus
Nov 22, 2010 12:01 PM CST
What strange bedfellows, minorities who are even below whites in educational attainment, and college educated elites. Of course these elites have been indoctrinated in Marxism in college. Where I went to university, for instance, we read Das Kapital but not Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations.
JimmyChooLove
Nov 22, 2010 9:59 AM CST
The GOP's primary problem is in their divide between social and economic issues. They would be getting a lot more 'educated' people if they re-focused their message on economic SOLUTIONS and not on 'christian values'. I know plenty of fiscally conservative people who would vote republican if the socially-bigoted faction of the GOP didn't make it impossible for them to do so. Although they're both obnoxious, I really do hope that the Meghan McCains of the GOP start to trump the Sarah Palins.
billcrawford
Nov 22, 2010 6:19 AM CST
"GOP voters were more rural, older, less diverse, and less educated than in places where Democrats tended to hold their own." Doesn't say anything about common sense or experience just education probably Harvard no doubt as they seem to be giving everything away this country has fought and died for! also it does not look like the democrats really held there own now does it! I mean lets look at the election, that pretty much says it all and there is another on the horizon which will finish the job no matter democrat or republican, if there bad for the country they go. A congress, senate and president controlling all areas and they can't get a damn thing done and what they did complete is disastrous in many ways for the American people. Good thing Janet and Obama have our borders safe, that's what they say so it must be true, would they lie to us?
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