Yes that is true and it is consistent with recent historical patterns. But, again, that does not mean that Democrats would benefit from what I propose. We both know the opposite would likely be the case.Obama won the most educated voters by 13 points.
Me, I wish I could see further breakdowns of that. I'd like to see breakdown by race. I'd like to see breakdown by sex. I'd like to see breakdown by area of study.
I have an article from the 1990s in the bookmarks of my computer (I'm usually on my wife's when I'm on this board) in which it was reported that the majority of males with post grad degrees tends to vote Republican while the majority of females with post grad degrees tend to vote Democrat. If so that may explain at least some of what we see in exit polling. The table at http://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d07/ ... 07_178.asp" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; shows that, as of 2005 - 2006, women accounted for 58% of those holding post grad degrees while men accounted for 42%.
I suspect that a lot of those are Masters' degrees held by women in educational fields. Like my wife's friend the teacher with her Masters. I suspect that Democrats hold a substantial edge among such women. I'd like to see a breakdown by inside and outside of the educational establishment with the educational establishment including being working for a College or University. Also government employment in general to include the educational establishment.
Also suspect that race is a factor. Exit poll displays I've seen don't break it down by education x race enough to get to post grads. This year the sucky exit poll display at CNN doesn't provide an education x race breakdown at all. So I'll go back to 2008. In 2008 college graduates overall voted by 53% to 45% for Obama over McCain but White College graduates voted by 51% to 47% for McCain over Obama. No doubt that White college grads were less likely than Whites overall to vote for Romney (51% vs. 55%), but you can see that race was still a factor among college grads even in a very good year for the Democratic candidate.
I'd expect that Blacks are disproportionately under represented among those with post grad degrees. On the other hand I'd expect that Asians including ethnic old world Indian and Pakistani types are disproportionately over represented and those ethnic groups tend to vote overwhelmingly for Democrats (that may be the single fact I see in exit polling data that baffles me the most).
Anyway it doesn't matter. Requiring passing a citizenship test equivalent to what legal immigrants have to pass would hurt the Democrats because the Democrats have a huge edge among the least educated and informed. And those are the people who would be excluded in by far the largest proportion. Get rid of the "Zombie Vote" and you get rid of Democrats as President and Democrats holding majorities in either House of Congress. Sure, you'd still have Democrats controlling a number of individual States because the national demographic voting patterns don't necessarily hold up in each individual State. But on a nationally level in terms of influence on the national government they'd be screwed.
