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I find it interesting and somewhat misleading, given recent elections, how many more total democrats there were than republicans in that data group.
The guy that came up with that noted that there was more support for Democrats from those with either little or a whole lot of education, and more Republican support from those somewhere in the middle. That's like saying " Asians are smarter, blacks are stronger, and whites are somewhere in the middle."
While it might seem stereotypical and intuitively correct, it's a huge generalization that in this instance is not even well supported by the numbers. You can't get more "somewhere in the middle" than those labelled junior college. These people were more likely to tend Democratic, (46.6) than Republican (29.5). Again, overall there were more Democrats in this survey, but it does not really paint a clear picture.
Other studies have shown that lawyers(with 3 years post grad. educ.) and most professors (with alot more than that) are mostly Democratic, but economics profs. and Doctors(4 years, plus residency) are more likely to be Republican.
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