Graph of NH candidate votes by voter income.

[pampango]

http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2012/01/11/402273/romney-relied-on-wealthy-voters-with-upscale-interests-like-gourmet-cooking-to-win-new-hampshire/

Romney support increases as you go up the income scale. Not surprising. It did surprise me that Ron Paul's support was highest at the low end of the income scale then decreased as voters got richer. For the other republicans there wasn't much of a link between voter income and support for the candidate.

[frazzled]

1. But the most interesting factor about the Paul supporters to me was ...

not that they were overwhelmingly young (47% of Paul supporters were age 17-29, out of a voting population that was only 12% of that age group) and, I think largely for that reason, on the lower end of the economic scale), but that nearly half of them (45%) did not have a college degree. Maybe that correlates with age as well, since 17 year olds were allowed to vote; only those around 21 or above would have a degree. But still, that's a really young and not (yet) terribly educated group. It makes sense to me that the very young and impressionable would fall for the Paul thing; as well as that the very rich would fall for the Romney thing.

My data from NYT dead-tree version, though can't find the chart on-line (it's perhaps called something else there but I can't find it).

[Mopar151]

2. It's the people who don't know how things work

And don't want to know.

[pampango]

4. Careful. They used to say the same about many of us in the sixties.

[Mopar151]

5. The people who were sayin' it then

knew less than we did!

[joshcryer]

3. Frat vote.