{"id":2963,"date":"2004-11-10T14:57:23","date_gmt":"2004-11-10T21:57:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2004\/11\/those-damn-republicans\/"},"modified":"2004-11-10T14:57:23","modified_gmt":"2004-11-10T21:57:23","slug":"those-damn-republicans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2004\/11\/10\/those-damn-republicans\/","title":{"rendered":"Those damn Republicans"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tAren’t liberal Democrats smarter, cooler, and better-educated than backward Republicans? Probably not, according to the research of law professor Ilya Somin:<\/a><\/p>\n

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Political Knowledge by Strength of Party Identification
\n2000 National Election Study
\nSelf-Described Party Alignment \/ Average Political Knowledge Score
\n(Average number of correct answers on 31 point scale)<\/p>\n

“Strong Republican” \/ 18.7
\n“Independent-Republican” \/ 15.7
\n“Strong Democrat” \/ 15.4
\n“Independent-Democrat” \/ 14.2
\n“Weak Republican” \/ 14.1
\n“Weak Democrat” \/ 13.3
\n“Independent-Independent” \/ 9.5<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The political knowledge score is based on a test you can see in this article.<\/a> Another stereotype bites the dust.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Aren’t liberal Democrats smarter, cooler, and better-educated than backward Republicans? Probably not, according to the research of law professor Ilya Somin: Political Knowledge by Strength of Party Identification 2000 National Election Study Self-Described Party Alignment \/ Average Political Knowledge Score (Average number of correct answers on 31 point scale) “Strong Republican” \/ 18.7 “Independent-Republican” \/ … Continue reading “Those damn Republicans”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-LN","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2963\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}