And Republicans Are Better Looking, Too
By Steven Hayward
Power Line
April 23, 2012
The Daily Caller reports on a recent Pew survey that finds Republicans are better informed than Democrats on political issues:
On eight of 13 questions about politics, Republicans outscored Democrats by an average of 18 percentage points, according to a new Pew survey titled “Partisan Differences in Knowledge.”
The Pew survey adds to a wave of surveys and studies showing that GOP-sympathizers are better informed, more intellectually consistent, more open-minded, more empathetic and more receptive to criticism than their fellow Americans who support the Democratic Party.
This may be my favorite factoid of the story:
A March Washington Post poll showed that Democrats were more willing to change their views about a subject to make their team look good. For example, in 2006, 73 percent of Democrats said the GOP-controlled White House could lower gas prices, but that number fell by more than half to 33 percent in 2012 once a Democrat was in the White House. [Ah, that's true simply because leftists are rank hypocrites ... nothing new about that, don'tcha know! B.] ...
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The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence
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