Intelligence, education, and political activity

It just can't be true that people with more education would tend to align with the "conservative" Republican party. "However, in most national and regional studies on voting behavior... just such a relationship is typically observed..."
http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/2778029?sid=21105143536851&uid=3739256&uid=2129&uid=4&uid=2&uid=3739848&uid=70

Really?? But we are taught to assume the opposite. After all "for every one percentage point increase in college graduates in a state, the percentage of Democratic identifiers increases by 0.75 percent":
http://www.progressivepolicy.org/blog/more-college-graduates-more-democratic-voters/

But wait... the research results are actually all over the board:
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/unique-everybody-else/201305/intelligence-and-politics-have-complex-relationship

So, if you want to understand how human political activity, there is a lot to absorb. But if you want to find research that confirms what you want to be true, there is a lot to choose from.