10 October 2008

Professionals Have Abandoned The GOP

Republicans have alienated the highly educated regions — Silicon Valley, northern Virginia, the suburbs outside of New York, Philadelphia, Chicago and Raleigh-Durham. The West Coast and the Northeast are mostly gone.

The Republicans have alienated whole professions. Lawyers now donate to the Democratic Party over the Republican Party at 4-to-1 rates. With doctors, it’s 2-to-1. With tech executives, it’s 5-to-1. With investment bankers, it’s 2-to-1. It took talent for Republicans to lose the banking community.

Conservatives are as rare in elite universities and the mainstream media as they were 30 years ago.


From David Brooks at the New York Times via NewMexiKen.

These losses Brookes attributes to a Republican embrace of anti-elitist, anti-educated class rhetoric.

1 comment:

Andrew Oh-Willeke said...

The Republican base is livid that McCain isn't stooping to baseless personal attacks against Obama more often, and is increasingly resorting to a rhetoric of violence.