Reading Habits of Dems and Reps

In case you haven’t heard, there’s been a survey taken on the reading habits of Americans. This is not the first and it, for sure, won’t be the last. There are a lot of interesting results. What I wanted to focus on today are the apparent reading habits of people as they relate to their political leanings, as reported by the Associate Press.

Liberals read more books than conservatives. You’ll have to go to the article itself to read Pat Schroeder’s reasoning for this. Shroeder is the president of the American Association of Publishers. She a definite Democrat. To give you a taste of her comments:

The Karl Roves of the world have built a generation that just wants a couple slogans: 'No, don't raise my taxes, no new taxes … It's pretty hard to write a book saying, 'No new taxes, no new taxes, no new taxes' on every page.

Never fear, the article’s not biased toward the dems. Mary Matalin, a Republican strategist said “conservatives and others aren't necessarily reading less, but are getting more information online and from magazines.

The poll also found that 22 percent of liberals and moderates had not read a book within the past year, while 34 percent of conservatives had not read a book in the last year.

Not read a book in a year!? Who are these people??