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The obvious reason is that Elizabeth is highly intelligent, and the other people are random teachers in upstate New York. A highly intelligent elitist should expect to have superior ideas to those around em (see Joshua's post below for a discussion of whether or not intelligent people actually do tend to agree on politics, however).
(Edited to clarify my reference to Joshua's post.)
It isn't clear that there's a strong correlation between intelligence and correct viewpoints. See this subthread where that point was very strongly made with a lot of examples.
Ok, but if someone is one-in-a-thousand intelligent, and a Democrat, then it may be correct for them to take an elitist stance, but I don't think it is correct to infer that the other 999-in-a-thousand are Republicans. At least I hope not.
Nothing in my post said that.
Clarified. :)