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One more election statistic: The 10 states with the highest percentage of people over age 25 with college degrees all voted for President Barack Obama. Nine of the 10 states with the lowest college degree percentage voted for Gov. Mitt Romney.

Perhaps this explains why the Democrats want to make a college education accessible to all our citizens.

Noel de Nevers

Salt Lake City