Follow up to The executive class supports John McCain, see What your work is and how you vote:
Professionals (doctors, lawyers, and so forth) and routine white collar workers (clerks, etc.) used to support the Republicans more than the national average, but over the past half-century they have gradually moved through the center and now strongly support the Democrats. Business owners have moved in the opposite direction, from close to the national average to being staunch Republicans; and skilled and unskilled workers have moved from strong Democratic support to near the middle.
Please see the original post for an illuminating chart....
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Interesting. Also I like the fact that the right arrows in the headline appear as the spelled-out entity text in the RSS feed. rarr! rarr!!
Posted by: Johnny Vector | October 11, 2008 3:42 PM
Your "original post" link's HTML is a bit messed up.
It has...
Note the 2 quotes to the left of the URL.
(And at least in my Firefox browser, that's messing up the link.... Treating it as href=""... which ends up being the same as href="http://scienceblogs.com/gnxp/2008/10/professionals_swing_democrat_b.php". I.e., it's pointing to itself.)
Posted by: Charles Iliya Krempeaux | October 11, 2008 6:08 PM
@Johnny Vector, you said...
That kind of problem is all too common with RSS.
→ is an HTML entity. In fact HTML has many many HTML entities: http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/sgml/entities.html
However, almost all the versions of RSS do not support the majority of these HTML entities. In fact, almost all version of RSS only support 4 of them!
You have to use the numeric codes for them to work in RSS. For example, for →, you'd have to write it as → to get it to work in RSS (and HTML).
(You can look up the numeric code for these things on the link I provided. These numeric codes are the same as the UNICODE codes.)
Posted by: Charles Iliya Krempeaux | October 11, 2008 6:53 PM
Sounds related to the difference between salaried "Billers " and risk taking "Players" http://www.arthurdevany.com/
Posted by: Tod | October 12, 2008 1:50 PM