An insight by e-mail about the election, from Michael Filozof, an adjunct professor at Niagara County Communiity College:

There is an interesting demographic trend that has a direct bearing on the educational system. Suburban, Western, and exurban white college-educated professionals are trending heavily toward Obama while white, working-class, non-college-educated males with military experience are overwhelmingly Republican. (This would surely have astonished the Democrats of the Truman Era.)
To paraphrase Jeremiah Wright, the “chickens are coming home to roost” for the Republican Party for committing the error of continuing to pump billions into the educational system despite having lost control over it at all levels, particularly higher education.
There is overwhelming political bias on campuses. Affirmative action is shamelessly practiced, the ROTC and military recruiters are banned, “heteronormativity” is rebuked, atheism and skepticism are the norm, Marxism and socialism are held in high regard, and males are outnumbered by females 58 to 42 percent.
For 40 years straight middle-class bourgeois households have been shipping their conservative, patriotic, church-going kids off to college and spending a fortune to turn them, four years later, into socialists, atheists, sexual libertines, drug users, and despisers of the United States and Western culture. All of this has been subsidized by the Federal government and enforced by the courts.
Why, then, should Republicans be surprised when large numbers of well-off, educated white voters shrug off the criticisms that Obama used hard drugs, is sympathetic to Marxism, socialism, black liberation and “structural feminism,” that his church is, in his words, “nontraditional,” and that he has accomplished literally nothing? Rather, they are impressed, as David Brooks and his ilk are, that Obama has read Nietzsche, Franz Fanon, and Reihnold Niebuhr.
Well, maybe Obama, if he wins the presidency, can discuss “structural feminism” and Nietzsche when he meets “unconditionally” with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Let me know how that works out, will ya?