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ballot no 112538

ARE AMERICAN ELITES OVERWHEMINGLY MORE LIBERAL THAN THE AMERICAN PUBLIC?

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created Mon Feb 26, 07

The proportion of elites in the following groups identified themselves as liberal:

Public interest groups: 91%
Television: 75%
Labor: 73%
Movies: 67%
Religion: 59%
Bureaucrats: 56%
Media: 55%
Judges: 54%
Congressional aides: 52%
Lawyers: 47%
THE AMERICAN PUBLIC: 25%
Business: 14%
Military: 9%

(SOURCE: Robert Lerner, Althea K. Nagai, Stanley Rothman, "General Social Survey", 'American Elites', New Haven, Yale University Press, 1996)

Apart from the business and the military, these elites were at almost twice or more times liberal as the American public as a whole.

But there is also the isue of education: "Social science faculties at elite (university) institutions are overwhelmingly liberal and cosmopolitan or on the Left", concluded Stanley Rothman. In a 2001-2002 UCLA survey for instance, of the 32,000 full-time faculty, 48% said they were liberal or far left. (Source: Huntington, S. P., 'Who Are We?', 2004)

So are American elites overwhemingly more liberal than the American public?

Yes

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american elites are far right

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This BALLOT CHOICE created by : mojo
Submitted on : Feb 26,2007 6:26:44 am