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[Centurion1]

Absolute hard numbers would be impossible to get, due to privacy laws, but recent studies suggest you're singing from an outdated hymnal.

1. The military, and especially its senior officers, are more Republican and conservative than the country as a whole. But the extent of this is grossly exaggerated, because the media naturally focuses on the attitudes of the officer corps, particularly more senior officers.
2. These differences are almost entirely explainable by the demographic makeup of the military, which is self-selected.
3. As with the rest of the country, the younger cohorts of the military—including its officer corps—are less Republican and less conservative. See, for example, the enormous swings in attitudes on gays in the military over the last 20 years.

Do you read any of your links?

http://www.armytimes.com/news/2010/0...vance_041110w/

The men are not becoming any less conservative really they are simply less vocal about it. A good thing in my mind anyway.

Just because they are not registering as republicans does not mean they will vote for a republican. Obama's approval rating is around 25% at the moment.

1. Yes this is very true... your second tid bit which is trying to downgrade the point by saying the officer corp gets superior coverage is irrelevant and merely your attempt o start an argument regarding the poor down trodden enlisted man. Polls don't lie and the media has nothing to do with it. Following your logic every branch of the military is misrepresented besides the marine corps because the corps receives an absurd amount of coverage.

2. Not my problem. Maybe if more damnyankees wanted to protect the country the numbers would be different.... but they aren't. That's not anyone's fault besides the largely liberal north and urban population.

3. This it rue and completely unsurprising, however, they are still more likely to be conservative than anything else. Your point on gays is irrelevant. Look at PJ and I. We are both pretty gosh darn conservative and are firmly pro gay marriage, by the time my generation is in control it will be a completely irrelevant issue.

[Lemur]

Do you read any of your links?

Yes. Why?

http://www.armytimes.com/news/2010/0...vance_041110w/

This is from 2010; the research cited in my link is generally more recent.

The men are not becoming any less conservative really they are simply less vocal about it.

That's not what any of these studies say; rather, there was an abrupt shift away from self-identifying as Republican to self-identifying as independent. Don't know if that holds true two years later.

merely your attempt o start an argument regarding the poor down trodden enlisted man.

I want to respond to this sentence, but it doesn't actually make any sense. The politics of officers and enlisted skew slightly differently; that's an empirical fact. So I'm not quite clear on how me quoting an article that points this out is "starting a fight." Feel free to explain.

Actually, my takeaway from a brief skim of these articles is that if only the military voted, Ron Paul would be President.