Pew Poll states Republicans more knowledgeable than Democrats?

Public Knowledge of Current Affairs Little Changed by News and Information Revolutions


What Americans Know: 1989-2007








Republicans and Democrats are equally likely to be represented in the high-knowledge group. But significantly fewer Republicans (26%) than Democrats (31%) fall into the third of the public that knows the least





But not all news sources are created equal. The audiences for different sources vary greatly in how much they know about what's going on, a consequence both of the kinds of people who rely on each type of medium and how much they may learn from specific sources.





Internet news sources, National Public Radio, news magazines, and Rush Limbaugh's radio show have the best educated audiences, with each of these having at least 36% of their regular readers and listeners having graduated from college. The internet sources along with the comedy news shows attract younger-than-average audiences, though many older Americans regularly get news from these sources as well. The audience for the morning network news shows is disproportionately female (61%), while Limbaugh's audience is heavily male (65%). A greater than average number of men are found in the audiences for the major newspaper websites (59%), for comedy news, The O'Reilly Factor, news magazines (54% each), and the TV news websites (53% male).





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Pew Poll states Republicans more knowledgeable than Democrats?
I don't need a poll to tell me this. lol
Reply:I don't think that this really qualifies as "news". Anyone who has been paying attention already knew this.
Reply:If Republicans are so knowledgeable--as you claim--how come they couldn't see that Iraq never had any WMDs in the first place--and was never a threat to begin with?





(As for Rush's audience being the most educated--I think you're barking up the wrong tree with that one!)
Reply:You glossed over your facts. Typical conservative trying to "look smart" by shuffling the stats around.





First of all, more democrats (1% more) scored "highest" in knowledge level according to your link. True, more republicans got the middle category, but comparing dumb to dumb, many more republicans than democrats scored lower in the "lowest" category.





Let me make an inductive leap in logic here: the lowest group probably had public education only (no private schools), and my guess then is that states with a majority of democrats do better with their public education systems. The poor republicans in their republican led education systems get left behind, exactly what Bush didn't want to happen.
Reply:What a load of crap the lot of it.
Reply:Nice source. You sure you don't want to go to Karl Roves personal website and post some of his thoughts as well. Joke, thanks.