Many people both conservative or liberal, prefer to read what they want to hear. In other words, people read books, blogs, magazines etc that affirm their beliefs. Speaking for myself, I like to read very divergent opinions.

Here’s my memory of going through some numbers once.

Didn’t finish high school — big liberal advantage.

The high school grads — slight conservative advantage.

Bachelor’s — Big conservative advantage.

Master’s — Big liberal advantage (predominately teachers)

Ph D — Mixed bag, slight liberal advantage.

[I may be confusing Dem/Rep with Lib/Cons can’t remember]

If my memory of the numbers is close, I’d say that the liberals occupy the ends of the spectrum, with the conservatives in the middle rather than liberals more educated.

Depends on how you define “educational level”. If you look at liberals and conservatives with bachelor’s degrees it may still favor liberals because they’re more likely to be English lit majors over business majors with the former being more likely to be avid readers.

If you lumped the blacks and hispanics in with white liberals (basically the current Democratic party) you would get a different and not so sound bite worthy result.