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Originally posted by dy156
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).
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I think you miscalculated -- the last row in the table is "Other Party," so you added together Strong Democrat, Not Strong Democrat, and Independent Near Democrat to get 47.6, but for Republican you added Other Party, Strong Republican, and Not Strong Republican to get 29.5. Removing Other Party and adding in Independent Near Republican adds up to 36.8.
In any case, if you assume Democrats and Republicans are equally represented in the general population, wouldn't this mean that Republicans are underrepresented in the survey, and that 47.6 vs. 36.8 might come closer together? (That assumption, of course, might possibly be wrong, as pointed out in Scipio's post.)
-- Alvin