Interestingly enough.......

[Bolter]

STATE AVERAGE IQ WON BY
Connecticut 113 Kerry
Massachusetts 111 Kerry
New Jersey 111 Kerry
New York 109 Kerry
Rhode Island 107 Kerry
Hawaii 106 Kerry
Maryland 105 Kerry
New Hampshire 105 Kerry
Illinois 104 Kerry
Delaware 103 Kerry
Minnesota 102 Kerry
Vermont 102 Kerry
Washington 102 Kerry
California 101 Kerry
Pennsylvania 101 Kerry
Maine 100 Kerry
Virginia 100 Bush
Wisconsin 100 Kerry
Colorado 99 Bush
Iowa 99 Bush
Michigan 99 Kerry
Nevada 99 Bush
Ohio 99 Bush
Oregon 99 Kerry
Alaska 98 Bush
Florida 98 Bush
Missouri 98 Bush
Kansas 96 Bush
Nebraska 95 Bush
Arizona 94 Bush
Indiana 94 Bush
Tennessee 94 Bush
North Carolina 93 Bush
West Virginia 93 Bush
Arkansas 92 Bush
Georgia 92 Bush
Kentucky 92 Bush
New Mexico 92 Bush
North Dakota 92 Bush
Texas 92 Bush
Alabama 90 Bush
Louisiana 90 Bush
Montana 90 Bush
Oklahoma 90 Bush
South Dakota 90 Bush
South Carolina 90 Bush
Wyoming 89 Bush
Idaho 87 Bush
Utah 87 Bush
Mississippi 85 Bush

All the average IQ's scores come from the book 'IQ And The Wealth of Nations'.

[Thordic]

FALSE!

http://www.snopes.com/politics/ballot/stateiq.asp

[Mango]

thread failure

[Thordic]

OMG HE GOT SNOPED!

[Jeffy-CanCon]

Fast work, Brian!

[Mango]

oh oh I'm not done yet

[Bolter]

damn they noticed......these Americans are more clever than is reported.

[deadeye9]

However,

if you go to "Smartest State"

http://www.morganquitno.com/edrank.htm

you get:

1 Massachusetts Kerry
2 Connecticut Kerry
3 Vermont Kerry
4 New Jersey Kerry
5 Wisconsin Kerry
6 New York Kerry
7 Minnesota Kerry
8 Iowa Bush
9 Pennsylvania Kerry
10 Montana Bush
11 Maine Kerry
12 Virginia Bush
13 Nebraska Bush
14 New Hampshire Kerry
15 Kansas Bush
16 Wyoming Bush
17 Indiana Bush
18 Maryland Kerry
19 North Dakota Bush
20 Ohio Bush
21 Colorado Bush
22 South Dakota Bush
23 Rhode Island Kerry
24 Illinois Kerry
25 North Carolina Bush
26 Missouri Bush
27 Delaware Kerry
28 Utah Bush
29 Idaho Bush
30 Washington Kerry
31 Michigan Kerry
32 South Carolina Bush
33 Texas Bush
33 West Virginia Bush
35 Oregon Kerry
36 Arkansas Bush
37 Kentucky Bush
38 Georgia Bush
39 Florida Bush
40 Oklahoma Bush
41 Tennessee Bush
42 Hawaii Kerry
43 California Kerry
44 Alabama Bush
45 Alaska Bush
46 Louisiana Bush
47 Mississippi Bush
48 Arizona Bush
49 Nevada Bush
50 New Mexico Bush

[Python14]

School children can't vote.

[deadeye9]

http://www.hist.umn.edu/~sobek/election_education.html

Do I detect a trend?

[Thordic]

I've met few people involved in Academia I would want anywhere near running a country.

[Jeffy-CanCon]

I read an article last week on the fact that nearly 90% of college and university staff in the USA consider themselves "liberal". That would tend to skew the opinions of university graduates, after 3-4 years of indoctrination.

[sharpshooter1286]

wooo im from the smartest state. and damn, the average IQ for Mississippi is 85? isnt that like really close to mental retardation?

[68AutoMoose]

Strange...I too have met many "College Educated" people, that have "High I.Q's" and lack " Common Sense."

[MayAMonkeyBeYourPinata]

Strange...I too have met many "College Educated" people, that have "High I.Q's" and lack " Common Sense."

I've met more people who are dumb as a rock, and have no common sense aswell.