Education doesn’t make you a winner-picker:
A new Gallup poll found that Sen. Barack Obama has much higher support among the most educated voters while Sen. Hillary Clinton receives more support from those with a high school diploma or less.
However, while support among educated elites may be responsible in part for Obama’s excellent fundraising, it will not necessarily translate to electoral victory. Gallup points out that in the previous three election cycles the democratic candidate receiving the most support from the most educated — Howard Dean in 2004, Bill Bradley in 2000, and Bob Kerrey in 1992 — did not go on to win the party’s nomination (despite a boost in fundraising). The last democrat to win the nomination with similar skewing in support by education was Michael Dukakis in 1988.
Nor does it keep you from thinking Bob Kerrey is a good candidate. Discuss.