# How did First-Time Voters vote? **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [January 7, 2013, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-first-time-voters-vote/646365 "2013-01-07T17:26:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 6
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2013, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-first-time-voters-vote/646365/6 "2013-01-08T06:37:51Z")
Apologize if this is off-topic. (It relates to OP, but not thread title.) > [@The Election and Data](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-election-and-data/646241/2): > > Obama got low information voters to vote for him. Nothing all that complicated about it. > [@The Election and Data](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-election-and-data/646241/8): > > Obama [won [in 2012] among Postgraduates 55 to 42](http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2012/11/10/opinion/marshpdf.html?ref=sunday-review)… (I realize “Postgraduate” is a VERY crude proxy for “well informed” but one copes with the stats one has, not the stats one wishes to have.) > [@The Election and Data](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-election-and-data/646241/19): > > Wrong. Obama underperformed among higher education … **compared to 2008** … It seemed quite amusing that Omg changed his claim away from “informed voters supported GOP” to “informed voter supported Dems but at a lower rate than in 2008”! 😃 I’m not sure of the reason for the decline, but the McCain-Palin ticket was quite easy to vote against. McCain didn’t seem particularly intelligent even at his peak, and was way past his consume-by date in 2008. Palin (a serious threat due to McCain’s age) seems to me to be the silliest major VP candidate ever. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-first-time-voters-vote/646365)._