The tactics of Kerry-bashing and Savior from Terrorism worked: Bush has 11 point lead

[Jaguar]

Just googled it and when I came back you had already posted. Yikes.

I beat the leader of the free world by more than 150 points on the SAT. I'm not sure whether that's or . That's fairly scary.

But it gets worse. That score is from when I took the SAT at the age of 13.

[Drake Tungsten]

I beat him by almost 300 points, but I don't see anything scary in that. Judging by test scores, Bush is smarter than the vast majority of the population, and raw intelligence certainly isn't the only characteristic needed to be a good leader.

Am I the only one who wonders about why Kerry's scores haven't come out, though?

[Jaguar]

Good job.

One would expect that the Presidency would end up going to one of the "best and the brightest", but none of the Presidential candidates ever seem to come close.

BTW, if Kerry got awful SATs, how did he get into Yale? (Not necessarily an argument, just a question.)

[Drake Tungsten]

One would expect that the Presidency would end up going to one of the "best and the brightest", but none of the Presidential candidates ever seem to come close.

I don't know about that. Nixon, Carter and Clinton were all extremely intelligent men. All mediocre to downright bad presidents, though...

BTW, if Kerry got awful SATs, how did he get into Yale?

Same way Bush did, probably. Family connections.

[Jaguar]

I flat-out refuse to believe that Carter is an intelligent man.

[Drake Tungsten]

Carter graduated in the top-10% of his class at the Naval Academy. That's pretty impressive.

http://www.csbsju.edu/uspp/Election/bush011401.htm

[The Mad Monk]

Nobody doubts Carter's intelligence. It's the personality that went along with that intelligence that was the problem.

[KrazyHorse]

Originally posted by Drake Tungsten
Bush got a 1206, 566 Verbal, 640 Math.

Gore got a 1355, 625 Verbal, 730 Math.

Kerry got... ?

http://www.insidepolitics.org/heard/heard32300.html

I beat both of them by over 200 points.

[KrazyHorse]

Originally posted by Drake Tungsten
Bush is smarter than the vast majority of the population

Vast majority my ass. Us 4 sigmaers laugh at his pathetic IQ.

[Jaguar]

Originally posted by Drake Tungsten
Carter graduated in the top-10% of his class at the Naval Academy. That's pretty impressive.

http://www.csbsju.edu/uspp/Election/bush011401.htm

My hatred for Jimmy Carter is semi-irrational. Don't question it.

[Drake Tungsten]

Let's not turn this into a circle-jerk over SAT scores, shall we? I just want to know why people think Bush is dumb and Kerry is smart with no real evidence to back up that theory.

edit: Or IQ scores, for some people...

[KrazyHorse]

and 125 is under 2 sigma. More like above 92% of the pop, not 95% as stated in that article.

[Jaguar]

Originally posted by Drake Tungsten
Let's not turn this into a circle-jerk over SAT scores, shall we? I just want to know why people think Bush is dumb and Kerry is smart with no real evidence to back up that theory.

edit: Or IQ scores, for some people...

I was worried about that.... although those threads are sometimes fun, I'm never old enough to have taken all the exams and pwn everyone.

[KrazyHorse]

I love ****ing over test scores.

[Kropotkin]

Originally posted by Geronimo
You may need a crash course on reading comprehension. There is nothing to suggest that some or even all of those indentifying as likely voters could not also indentify as registered voters.

What? it's an abstract of their methology, not bloody poetry. If they fail to make a clear and easy to understand abstract of their methology, there might be reasons to question their ability to conduct a poll in the first place. What the hell is a likely voter, why is not all registered voters likely voters, and why is there some people that are not registered voters but likely voters or the other way around?

When I read a poll, I want straight answers to those questions.