You're making another assumption, johnfitz. Are you familiar with graduate school and the wide category of "non-traditional student" who inhabit them today? Did you know that graduate school enrollment increases every time there is a big job slump, and since Bush came into office our enrollment has gone through the roof as people scramble to do what they can to retrain to find employment? We're not talking about an elitist culture here. I didn't say which school, yet you take the liberty of doubting the makeup of the class, and dismiss the informal survey out of hand. And now you're speaking for the tired, the poor, the huddled masses. It must be nice to be omniscient.

I profoundly respect people's right to vote for whom they please--and I also respect the right to get accurate information and not tons of propaganda from political machines when making those decisions about voting. The system here is broken, and too many people are so gullible that they pick up the slogan that they think suits them (and is usually misrepresentative of the case at hand) and go with it. It swings both ways, but the biggest money and the dirtiest tricks have always belonged to the republican party in the last 50 years that I can vouch for.

SRS