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Originally Posted by MuadDib
In all fairness, in regards to the education level debate I want to let you know that I am currently a law student and fully intend on joining the JAG program upon completion of my degree. Their are plenty of profressionals in the military ranging from medical doctors to psychologists to lawyers to engineers. Not only that, but you neglect that the military is an alternate source of education and anyone who plans to make a career of military service receives more hours and years of education than any bachelors and most masters degree students.
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I didn't neglect anything. Are you mixing officer programs with enlisted personnel?
Regardless, I didn't even make a claim other than to say that education levels are more meaningful correlations between voting patterns than claiming an enlisted person votes republican because he or she supports a particular party due to how it treats the military.
All of the posts in response to mine have taken issue with me claiming they should turn to empirical evidence rather than speculation. Curiously, none of them have argued that they vote republican because the republicans are better supporters of military personnel than democrats.
You all are taking issue because you want to nitpick at something--it has little to do with the point of the thread or even my comment. I didn't say anything disparingly about education level and party affiliaton. If you bothered to look up what I was referring to, you would have found that it's not as though low education equals republican voters. In fact, the opposite until one enters post-secondary education. So it seems that someone with a medium level of post-secondary education (~bachelor's degree to master's) will vote republican more often than not, which would fit well with the other socialization funtioncs researchers have found to be supported by that level of education.
Either ask for clarification if you don't understand something I write, or find someone else to badger if that's your intent.