well....the majority of the group are democrats..

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well....the majority of the group are democrats......??????

LOOK AT THE FREAKN' CHART!!! via your own link .....there is absolutely no evidence what so ever to prove your point......quite the opposite!!!!!

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I did look at the freaking chart. WTF does the caption above the first graph mean in plain English,,,these are Gallup's words about it's own poll:

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Military Veterans of All Ages Tend to Be More Republican

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The 'Nonveteran bars are higher for Dems , But lower in the VETERANS BAR GRAPHS.

I trust Gallup's interpretation of it's own data, in their own freaking words.

For your interpretation to be accurate you would have to substitute the word 'Democrat' right the f*ck here:

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Military Veterans of All Ages Tend to Be More Republican

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Also substitute it again everywhere 'Republican' appears below.
You're letting your 'want to believe' get in the way of 'what is'.

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Different Patterns at Work?

It is difficult to establish the precise causal relationship between military service and Republican orientation . It may be that service in the military per se socializes an individual in certain ways that in turn lead to a more Republican viewpoint -- either at the time or in later years. On the other hand, there may be a selection factor at work, such that individuals already disproportionately Republican in orientation are more likely to join the military, meaning that the causal factor predates actual military service.


The latter explanation seems more reasonable for the younger age cohorts considered in this research. For the most part, Americans who are now aged 55 and under, as noted, volunteered to serve rather than having been drafted. Under these conditions, a reasonable hypothesis seems to be that more conservative/more Republican persons would be disproportionately represented in the ranks of volunteers, suggesting that the major reason for the observed veteran/nonveteran political difference lies in the backgrounds of those who choose to serve.

On the other hand, those who are now 56 and older were generally subject to the draft and presumably had a lot less choice in whether they served. That would be particularly true for Americans now 70 and older, among whom the majority are veterans. Here a more reasonable hypothesis may be that the socialization process that took place as part of military training and service, coupled with the impact such service has on an individual's reflection on politics and policy later in life, had a greater impact on the observed more Republican orientation among these veterans.


No doubt both processes are at work to at least some degree across the age spectrum. Whatever the cause, the data are clear: having served in the military is associated with a more Republican and less Democratic political identity .

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And then there's this:

http://swampland.time.com/2012/11/05/does-the...epublican/

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But the U.S. military plainly tilts toward the GOP. That’s largely because today’s military is an all-volunteer force increasingly drawn from the Sunbelt, where the Pentagon has focused its recruiting efforts since the draft ended 40 years ago. And traits the military prizes — like aggressiveness and respect for authority — tend to be more pronounced in conservatives.

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Do you think that I substituted GOP for 'Democrats'?! LOL!