To what extent does college education matter?

[Publius]

We're on a run of Ivy League presidents.

44. Barack Obama--Columbia, Harvard Law
43. George W. Bush--Yale, Harvard Business School
42. Bill Clinton--Georgetown, Oxford, Yale Law
41. George H.W. Bush--Yale

Reagan, our 40th president, breaks the streak with the heretofore unheard of "Eureka College," which he might have just made up for his résumé. Since him, though, we'll have had 28 straight years of Ivy League presidents heading into president #45.

Do voters value these candidates' educational backgrounds, or is it a coincidence? SHOULD it matter?

[136or142]

George W Bush was an affirmative action legacy student graduate.

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

You usually have to have one, liberal arts, no matter what field you are studying for, will give you the prerequisit of a social science education.

[Milquetoast]

It doesn't matter too much as long as you finish. Scott Walker, on other other hand, is an idiot!!

[Citizen (The) Doctor]

I would imagine this is simply due to the propensity of most government work requiring a degree of some form, and the fact that extremely successful college dropouts are much less common than the media leads us to believe.

I could see a self-made businessperson win a presidential election under the right circumstances, but they would need to have some sort of government cred to back it up, just because most people rightly assume that government and business aren't run and shouldn't be run in exactly the same way.

[All Along The Watchtower]

Scott Walker will not be the next President.