If you're smarter you'll vote Democrat?

[D1B]

No one dumped me you elitest, racist homophobe lame **** with no game who never gets any action. You and your enlarged prostate and bad **** breath can go **** yourselves.

At least I have a prostate, you scum-sucking licker of other people's grundles.

Your current bag-of-ass-hairs of a wife definitely knows I have a prostate.

[JohnStOnge]

There's no more secure people than the republican voter base - poor, uneducated, racist white automatons who will will gladly do (vote) whatever some slick businesman or preacher tells them. They're comically unhealthy, smoke a carton of Basic Menthols a day, dream about killing niggers and spend all of their disposable income on velvet Elvis paintings, chicken fried steak, Meth, booze and lottery tickets. They rant on about about niggers on welfare, yet every single member of their family is on SSI disability for diabetes or emphysema, or some fraud of an injury they faked at the local widget plant.These ex KKKlan members spend their unemployed lives stumping for fellow racist shitbags like Ryan or Romney or Baldy in Teabagger rallies predominantly staged in the South, otherwise known as the Asshole of the World.

You actually believe this stuff?

Of course he doesn't. He knows better. He's just jerking chains.

[Ivytalk]

At least I have a prostate, you scum-sucking licker of other people's grundles.

Your current bag-of-ass-hairs of a wife definitely knows I have a prostate.

Says he who gives rimjobs to paraplegic monks.

[Bison Fan in NW MN]

You actually believe this stuff?

Of course he doesn't. He knows better. He's just jerking chains.

John, you seem like a good guy on here that gets a lot of "sh**" from others. Why does every conversation about politics or religion just turn into a name-calling session?

[JohnStOnge]

Boy, this thread is an excellent example of how difficult it is to predict the direction a thread will take when you start it.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aljlKYesT4[/youtube]

[SuperHornet]

It's not just politics with those trolls, NW. They have something wrong upstairs, I think. The average lib on these boards will present their view, and that will be that. They are also generally good posters on the sports side, too. These two are an island unto themselves, methinks. On the rare occasions they poke their noses into the sports boards, they have the same MO.

[Bison Fan in NW MN]

It's not just politics with those trolls, NW. They have something wrong upstairs, I think. The average lib on these boards will present their view, and that will be that. They are also generally good posters on the sports side, too. These two are an island unto themselves, methinks. On the rare occasions they poke their noses into the sports boards, they have the same MO.

Like I mentioned before, I haven't been on this board for very long, so I have no idea the "history" of the posters or past idealogy.

You also seem like a good, intelligent poster. I enjoy good debate but name calling seems to be the end-game with a lot of posters.

[Ivytalk]

It's not just politics with those trolls, NW. They have something wrong upstairs, I think. The average lib on these boards will present their view, and that will be that. They are also generally good posters on the sports side, too. These two are an island unto themselves, methinks. On the rare occasions they poke their noses into the sports boards, they have the same MO.

Like I mentioned before, I haven't been on this board for very long, so I have no idea the "history" of the posters or past idealogy.

You also seem like a good, intelligent poster. I enjoy good debate but name calling seems to be the end-game with a lot of posters.

But artful name-calling, you purulent zygote!

[JohnStOnge]

John, you seem like a good guy on here that gets a lot of "sh**" from others. Why does every conversation about politics or religion just turn into a name-calling session?

My opinion is that they have a difficult time dealing with me on substance and so they resort to name calling. It's all good.

[D1B]

John, you seem like a good guy on here that gets a lot of "sh**" from others. Why does every conversation about politics or religion just turn into a name-calling session?

My opinion is that they have a difficult time dealing with me on substance and so they resort to name calling. It's all good.

You're a nazi. Everyone thinks you have a screw loose. Several of us are honest and call you out. The rest are timid Uncle Toms.

[Baldy]

Mister Progressive D1B drops the N- bomb twice in one post, and no one will call the hypocritical quim-swilling cockbreath on it.

D1B makes wood every time he drops the N-bomb on a public forum.

[Gil Dobie]

There's no more secure people than the republican voter base - poor, uneducated, racist white automatons who will will gladly do (vote) whatever some slick businesman or preacher tells them. They're comically unhealthy, smoke a carton of Basic Menthols a day, dream about killing ##### and spend all of their disposable income on velvet Elvis paintings, chicken fried steak, Meth, booze and lottery tickets. They rant on about about ##### on welfare, yet every single member of their family is on SSI disability for diabetes or emphysema, or some fraud of an injury they faked at the local widget plant.These ex KKKlan members spend their unemployed lives stumping for fellow racist shitbags like Ryan or Romney or Baldy in Teabagger rallies predominantly staged in the South, otherwise known as the Asshole of the World.

Using racists words like this puts you at the level of a KKK member, but it you aspire to be a KKK member, then that's your problem.

[kalm]

edit:

Oops...didn't think that one through at all.

[kalm]

[GannonFan]

Neither side is smarter.

There are opposing views on governing that have been with us since the founding of the country (federalists vs. anti-federalists). Neither side is smarter and neither side is wholly right and the other wrong.

It's fun to pick out the dumbasses on both sides... fat tea-partiers waving misinformed signs in the air and ignorant occupy wall streeters waving equally dumb sides in the air. But, neither political philosophy is inherently dumb and neither is inherently smarter.

A sentiment I can whole-heartedly agree with.

[AZGrizFan]

No, because my interpretation includes consideration of things other than educational attainment level. I am also looking at the income and racial demographics. All three suggest a higher average IQ among Republican voters. The educational attainment level twist at the top, taken on its own, suggests that more in the highest IQ group vote Democrat. But the income group categorizations suggests otherwise.

There's also the matter of what is meant by "higher distribution." All three of the categorizations strongly suggest that the lowest end IQ voters voted disproportionately Democrat. WAY disproportionately Democrat. Even if there is a twist at the very top towards a modest advantage for Democrats as suggested by the educational attainment category, the totality of the information suggests a generally higher IQ distribution among Republican voters. Again, with "suggest" being just that. As I said, we'd have to get them to just measure IQ among voters during exit polling to know.

Anyway, to conclude that the twist at the top of in the educational attainment category means those who voted Democrat likely had a higher IQ distribution is picking one piece of the information provided while ignoring everything else that suggests the opposite. And most of the information does suggest the opposite.

The huge % of Republicans that believe in the super natural and the resulting effect of that on humanity cancels out any "book education" advantage that they might have.

Well, given the fact that 86% of Americans identify themselves as Christians, I'm guessing a "huge %" of them are Democrats, so your argument holds no water.

[mrklean]

MaineJeff inspired me to post this. My perception has been, in watching liberal talking heads as well as liberals on message boards over the years, that they think people vote Republican because they are stupid. I get the impression that they think that if you are more "enlightened" you will vote Democrat. I am going to post some exit polling results from the most recent national election (2010 House elections) below. In viewing them, bear in mind the following pretty much universally accepted beliefs about correlations between various attributes and IQ:

IQ is positively correlated with educational attainment level (higher education level, higher IQ)
IQ is positively correlated with income (higher income, higher IQ)
IQ is correlated with race, with the groups specified in the exit polling results arranged in following order (estimated average IQs in parenthesis from Hernstien and Murray's The Bell Curve, but if you Google around you're going to see that these are pretty consistent with anything you're going to get):
Asians (106)
Whites (103)
Latinos (89)
Blacks (85)
Note: Fairness dictates that among Whites, Jews are estimated in The Bell Curve to have an average IQ of 113. Jews do typically vote majority Democrat by a substantial margin. However, they are such a small percentage of the electorate (2% of those polled during exit polling in 2010) that an exit poll estimate could not be derived.

With those correlations in mind, take a look at the exit polling estimates below for the 2010 election and comment on whether or not you REALLY think the IQ distribution of those who voted Democrat was higher (the percentage of voters polled belonging to each group in parenthesis):

Exit polling results from http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2010/results/polls/#USH00p1" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;



EDUCATION

Did not finish high school (3%) Democrat 57%, Republican 36%
High school graduate (17%) Democrat 46%, Republican 52%
Some college (28%) Democrat 43%, Republican 53%
College graduate (30%) Democrat 40%, Republican 58%
Post graduate (21%) Democrat 53%, Republican 45%

INCOME

Under $30,000 (17%) Democrat 57%, Republican 40%
$30,000 - $50,000 (19%) Democrat 51%, Republican 46%
$50,000 - $75,000 (21%) Democrat 45%, Republican 51%
$75,000 - $100,000 (15%) Democrat 42%, Republican 56%
$100,000 - $200,000 (19%) Democrat 43%, Republican 56%
$200,000 or more (8%) Democrat 34%, Republican 64%

RACE

White (77%) Democrat 37%, Republican 60%
Black (11%) Democrat 89%, Republican 9%
Latino (8%) Democrat 60%, Republican 38%
Asian (2%) Democrat 58%, Republican 40%

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