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Originally posted by Nathans_Dad
One small, minor, itty bitty point here...
All those kids were living in the Berkeley, California area which, I might guess, has a high proportion of liberal parents raising those kids. I wonder if the results might be different if he repeated the study in, say, Wichita, Kansas??
Maybe all those little kids were whining because they couldn't stand the liberal crapola their parents were exposing them to on a daily basis... 
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So you are not going to read the article in the link? Or you already read it and choose to ignore it?
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But the new results are worth a look. In the 1960s Jack Block and his wife and fellow professor Jeanne Block (now deceased) began tracking more than 100 nursery school kids as part of a general study of personality. The kids' personalities were rated at the time by teachers and assistants who had known them for months. There's no reason to think political bias skewed the ratings — the investigators were not looking at political orientation back then. Even if they had been, it's unlikely that 3- and 4-year-olds would have had much idea about their political leanings.
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Perhaps your stance is that the investigators should of been looking at political orientation back then, right?
EDIT: I looked up this studies critic: Jeff Greenberg, a social psychologist at the University of Arizona
Jeff Greenberg's work on terrorism and self esteem is highly respected. I think they have common conclusions, so his real issue must be with the science part - shoddy work he called it.
http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/pto-19930301-000022.html
http://www.esi-topics.com/terrorism/interviews/JeffGreenberg.html