Read the article!
What? Conservatives more well-informed and more tolerant than liberals? Say it isn't so!
From the Star Tribune:
Survey data make clear that Republicans, on average, are better
informed than Democrats about political issues. Data from the American
National Election Study has confirmed this over the years, and an April
2012 Pew Research Center survey -- "What the Public Knows about the
Political Parties" -- is the latest to document it.
On eight of the survey's 13 questions about politics, Republicans
outperformed Democrats by an average of 18 percentage points.
"Republicans fare substantially better than Democrats on several
questions in the survey, as is typically the case in surveys about
political knowledge," according to the study.
And:
A March 2012 Pew report, entitled "Social Networking Sites and
Politics," found that 28 percent of liberals have "blocked, unfriended
or hidden someone" on social-networking sites because of their political
postings, compared with 16 percent of conservatives.
I know my experience has been that many liberals I talk with are less informed and much more unwilling to consider the other opinions as valid than are many of the conservatives I know. But, of course, we conservatives are painted by the media as intolerant and ignorant. Interesting to see some survey data debunking that view. Read more at the link. (Which I hope works, because this is the first time I have tried the new Blogger format!!)
---Katie
