2008-04-03 All Those Academics

2008-04-03 Daniel Larison The American Conservative \Barack Obama\Barack Obama/attacks on http://www.amconmag.com/larison/2008/04/03/all-those-academics/ All Those Academics &ldquo;Is there any evidence that most, or even a significant chunk, of Obama's supporters are academics?&rdquo; Jonathan Chait asks in response to this column by Michael Barone.  "Is there any evidence that most, or even a significant chunk, of Obama's supporters are academics?" – Jonathan Chait, 2008-04-03

Chait asks in response to this Barone column. Considering that he has received something in the neighbourhood of 14 million votes (including all caucus and disqualified states), that would be an awful lot of academics if they constituted a large percentage of his support. Even if there are that many graduate degree-holders running around out there, there are probably still a lot fewer full-time academics. Besides, this isn’t a mystery. We have exit polls that can give us some rough idea of how many Obama supporters have post-graduate educations and how many do not. Furthermore, we have all talked to death the "beer-track"/"wine-track," working class/creative class divisions among these voters.   