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Keep having babies!
Posted by Raven on August 22nd, 2006
Ha! I knew there was a reason to have three kids…funny too, as I think about this. Most of my friends are conservative- and they all have three or four kids. The few liberal friends I have — well, they have NO kids. I wonder if this is reflective of their sex lives? (or lack of.)
Simply put, liberals have a big baby problem: They’re not having enough of them, they haven’t for a long time, and their pool of potential new voters is suffering as a result. According to the 2004 General Social Survey, if you picked 100 unrelated politically liberal adults at random, you would find that they had, between them, 147 children. If you picked 100 conservatives, you would find 208 kids. That’s a “fertility gap” of 41%. Given that about 80% of people with an identifiable party preference grow up to vote the same way as their parents, this gap translates into lots more little Republicans than little Democrats to vote in future elections.
August 23rd, 2006 at 6:44 pm
No More Babies (Left) To Kiss
Arthur C. Brooks, nella pagina degli editoriali del Wall Street Journal, spiega perché i Democratici – malgrado ogni sforzo per assicurarsi il voto giovanile – non riescono mai a dare vita ad un break generazionale capace di far vincere loro le elezi…
August 24th, 2006 at 12:16 pm
I’m thinking you just prefer the actual making of the babies… ;)
August 24th, 2006 at 1:13 pm
Sounds like the ‘Rowe Effect’ – the idea that conservatives will outbreed liberals because conservatives have many unwanted children, while liberals will avoid most unwanted pregnencies and abort the rest.
August 24th, 2006 at 3:47 pm
you know what raven, im gonna find out who you are.