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They score an average 19 points higher on IQ tests than self proclaimed liberals.

If conservatives are dumb that must mean libs have an actual intellectual disability.

Adam Smith's "Wealth of Nations" is about 1000 pages, The "Communist Manifesto " is about 24 paragraphs, (I have read them both), WHO has the simpler ideology?

And yet with all that excess IQ, Libs continue to be some of the most impractical people on earth, All book knowledge, rarely balanced by experience or working within the realm of reality.

And there is no correlation between IQ and bing a moral person, a value driven individual, being more charitable, and other positive traits,

I'm one of the most conservative people on here and quite likely have the highest IQ as well. However, as per typical liberal ignorance, your ability to reason logically is vastly underdeveloped. There are hundreds of studies on this topic, and depending on the source will provide different theories and of course, different outcomes. Use obviously biased data or biased analysts, and you will have biased results. It's no wonder that the only place to find results like yours are on dailykos and huffington post.

A better comparison, however, is that people with extreme political views, whether it's extreme conservatism or extreme liberalism, have lower IQ's than those with a more centrist view. This study revealed this to be the case. People who identify as definitively liberal or conservative had an average IQ of 94, while people who identified as center-right politically had an average IQ of 105.

So there you have it. The typical Obama supporter, as well as the typical confederate flag waiving biblical conservative has a severe mental disadvantage in comparison to the more liberty oriented libertarians and constitutionalists.

Oh, and one other note on another study that found along similar lines. When conducting one study, not only did they ask people what THEY consider themselves to be, but they asked the people for their stances on certain issues from abortion and gay marriage to taxation and gun rights. The conclusion was that the people who identified themselves as liberal gave more weight to their views on unimportant social issues than regulatory, while conservatives viewed regulatory issues (taxes, gun rights) more heavily in their choice.

lets see, does voting for Obama failed radical Marxism not once but twice show intelligence....hmmm....and does endorsing lying about Benghazi, lying about Obamacare, lying about fast and furious and so on, exhibit traits of common sense.

tell you what, why not ask this question to the two million who lost their jobs over Obamacare or the families of the four diplomats murder due to a mindless stand down order or the families affected by Obama's 55 days to respond to the bp oil spill or the people who actually believed they could keep their doctor or health plan if they wanted.

the answer isn't just no, its GOD no.

Obama is proof

that America is full of low IQ idiots

It's not so much that they are "dumb" because a lot of conservatives are doctors and lawyers but it's more that they seem to lack very common sense and critical thinking. You can still be a straight A student without common sense

I get reported within minutes for saying anything even remotely bad about progressives, yet bullshit like this stays on here.

One time, all I said was that progressive is another term for communist and it was reported.

No we are just right brain dominate, and we know that just because it sounds good in a book dose not mean it works just ask anybody that excaped cuba about marx and the lot.

DATA says no.

Each and every "study" purporting to show what you claim defines "conservative" by every trait central to DEMOCRATS.

A very smart history prof told me: Some of the smartest men in history believed in astrology...Smart is the ability to learn...Many Democrats learn things that are not so.