O’s Alamo of Dumbasses

[WilliamW]

The irony is palpable.  Grad students are the only people in the US who aren’t smart enough to have figured out what a socialist schmuck Obummer is.

Quote:Academic Alamo: Grad Students and Former Grad Students Form Obama’s Last Redoubt of Approval, Says Gallup Poll
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
By Terence P. Jeffrey

(CNSNews.com) - Graduate students and former graduate students now form the last redoubt of approval for President Barack Obama, according to the Gallup poll.

When American adults are sorted by their level of educational attainment—including those with a high school diploma or less, those with some college, those with college degrees but no graduate school experience, and those who have attended at least some graduate school—only the last group still gives Obama a majority approval rating.

In Gallup polling for the week of Oct. 18-24, Americans who have done some postgraduate studies (whether or not they have actually earned a postgraduate degree), give Obama a 55-percent job approval rating.

Obama’s approval is lowest among Americans who have a college degree but never attended grad school. Among this group, only 41 percent approve of the job the president is doing. The last time college-degree-only Americans gave Obama a majority approval rating, according to the Gallup poll, was the week of May 10-16.

Americans who have attended some college, but do not have a college degree, give Obama a 42-percent approval rating. The last time this group gave Obama a majority approval rating was the week of April 19-25.

Americans who have a high school diploma or less give Obama a 43 percent approval rating. The last time they gave Obama a majority approval rating was the week of Feb. 22-28.

During the course of Obama's presidency, there has been only one week—Aug. 16-22, 2010—when the president's job approval rating dipped below 50 percent among grad students and former grad students. That week, it hit 47 percent among this group. Aug. 16-22, 2010, and the following week of Aug. 23-29, was also the period when Obama hit his lowest overall weekly approval rating of 43 percent as measured by Gallup's polling.

For last week, Obama’s overall approval rating was 44 percent in the Gallup poll, almost matching his all-time weekly low as tracked by Gallup.

However, for the three-day period of Oct. 21-23, Obama's approval rating was only 41 percent--the absolute lowest three-day rating of his presidency, according to Gallup. For the three days of Oct. 23-25--the latest period available--Obama's overall approval rating was 43 percent.

Gallup asks about 500 people per day whether they approve or disapprove of the job the president is doing.

In the week of Jan. 19-25, 2009 when President Obama was sworn into office, his overall approval rating in the Gallup poll was 67 percent and was near or above that rate among Americans of all educational attainment levels. In that week, those with high school diplomas or less gave Obama an approval rating of 66 percent, those with some college gave him an approval rating of 65 percent, those with college degrees but no graduate school gave him an approval rating of 69 percent, and those with some postgraduate experience gave him an approval rating of 70 percent.

[Tanya Heddankoff]

WilliamW Wrote:Grad students are the only people in the US who aren’t smart enough to have figured out what a socialist schmuck Obummer is.

And now we know why!  Scientific proof confirms what we long have suspected: socialists are MUTANTS!  "Variant" is science doublespeak for "MUTANT."  

This also explains what Lootsy Tootsy was doing with all the mutant lab pigs--she was trying to make Obama voters out them!!  No problem getting them registered, it was getting them to not eat the ballot that was the problem.

Quote:Scientists Claim Liberalism Is Genetic
Written by CAA National on October 28, 2010, 03:18 PM
ERIC S. PAGE

Researchers have determined that genetics could matter when it comes to some adults' political leanings.

According to scientists at UC San Diego and Harvard University, "ideology is affected not just by social factors, but also by a dopamine receptor gene called DRD4." That and how many friends you had during high school.

The study was led by UCSD's James Fowler and focused on 2,000 subjects from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health. Scientists matched the subjects' genetic information with "maps" of their social networks. According to researchers, they determined that people "with a specific variant of the DRD4 gene were more likely to be liberal as adults." However, the, subjects were only more likely to have leanings to the left if they were also socially active during adolescence.

"It is the crucial interaction of two factors -- the genetic predisposition and the environmental condition of having many friends in adolescence -- that is associated with being more liberal,” according to the study.

"These findings suggest that political affiliation is not based solely on the kind of social environment people experience,” said Fowler, who is a professor of political science and medical genetics.

The researchers also said their findings held true no matter what the ethnicity, culture, sex or age of the subjects were.

[Winston Smith]

Tanya Heddankoff Wrote:socialists are MUTANTS!  

Yes, I do see the resemblance...

[ham]

Quote:"It is the crucial interaction of two factors -- the genetic predisposition and the environmental condition of having many friends in adolescence -- that is associated with being more liberal,” according to the study.

"These findings suggest that political affiliation is not based solely on the kind of social environment people experience,” said Fowler, who is a professor of political science and medical genetics.

I wonder how much public money was used to fund this...research...
I mean...they mean the party wh-re, the guy who wanted to get involved in everything etc ended up becoming liberals?!
Don't tell...
While the person who was highly selective in his frequentations did not end up being a liberal?
Great.

[Herbert Spencer]

ham Wrote:I mean...they mean the party wh-re, the guy who wanted to get involved in everything etc ended up becoming liberals?!

Yup, the busybodies who have their big noses stuck in everybody else's business wind up trying to get the government to do the same.  

[ham]

Herbert Spencer Wrote:

ham Wrote:I mean...they mean the party wh-re, the guy who wanted to get involved in everything etc ended up becoming liberals?!

Yup, the busybodies who have their big noses stuck in everybody else's business wind up trying to get the government to do the same.  

Look at little Chlamydia...as soon as it set foot in school, it was already on the stage of eleventeen committees...of course stuff like "queer rights", "memory day", "down with those who oppose the crack pipe" etc I suppose.

[Herbert Spencer]

ham Wrote:Look at little Chlamydia...

Scum begets scum.

[Little Arminius]

Quote:According to scientists at UC San Diego and Harvard University, "ideology is affected not just by social factors, but also by a dopamine receptor gene called DRD4." That and how many friends you had during high school.

The study was led by UCSD's James Fowler and focused on 2,000 subjects from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health.

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The researchers also said their findings held true no matter what the ethnicity, culture, sex or age of the subjects were.

Wow, these guys must be really good. Imagine studying 2,000 subjects and their political leanings and finding some genetic marker that, in conjunction with certain adolescent behavior, explains political sympathies in adulthood?

Tax dollars at work supporting shoddy research and second-rate researchers at RA schools.

[ham]

The sad thing about these nosy busybodies, metiches como quieras, is that they are swindling not only the 'opposite' political side, but their own friends and buddies as well. Lately they go by the name community builders...you know...the freak who bands groups and uses the megaphone and whose loud activism ends up drowning anybody else's...he may also riding on this, that or the other subsidy, scholarship and the like.
They want to appear so selfless and sworn to the cause, but are just paving their way towards more subsidies and adding one or more lines to their CV...
I followed one such case over a few years and it is disgusting how he ended up swindling everybody with his false pretenses.
I am not saying they have no interest in what they do...I am saying their ultimate goal is to get there...at your expenses...it just another politician trying to maximize his smiles and back patting...
So while his buddies may be back to the flop house, he may have built a nice going for himself as media person, community builder etc.
Bleah...

[Don Dresden]

(08-22-2011 08:20 PM)ham Wrote:  Lately they go by the name community builders...you know...the freak who bands groups and uses the megaphone and whose loud activism ends up drowning anybody else's...he may also riding on this, that or the other subsidy, scholarship and the like.

Quote:Video:Sen. Coburn,Obama’s “Intent is to Create Dependency Because it Worked So Well for Him”
by Ben Johnson,The White House Watch

Sen. Tom Coburn, R-OK, answered a recent question by saying Barack Obama is promoting government dependence because federal programs promoted him to the presidency. Coburn said, “As an African-American man,coming through the progress and everything he experienced, he got tremendous benefit through a lot of these programs. ”His life experience, Coburn said, convinced him government programs were the road to progress for a whole segment of society.

If the audio is a bit fuzzy, the message is crystal clear. Affirmative Action has consequences. One of them is our current president, who was consistently promoted beyond his competence through discriminatory policies. As the “special one,” he got used to receiving praise unalloyed with the faintest hint of criticism, a practice he expects his political opponents to continue. This unmeritorious process of government-sanctioned praise and advancement convinced him to double-down on government at all levels. It should also convince conservatives that even Affirmative Action “success stories” are counterproductive. Reverse discrimination must end.