The answer to this question is undeniably “yes,” at least as far as Eugene Scott of The Washington Post is concerned.
Mr. Scott chooses to point out that, “Americans are pursuing higher education at growing rates, but those without a college education are increasingly finding a home in the GOP.”
So are you implying that voters without college educations are somehow less informed, Mr. Scott?
Are you implying that voters without college educations are somehow less deserving of the right to vote, Mr. Scott?
During the latest midterm elections in 2018, if I heard it once I heard it a thousand times from the democrats, “Every vote counts!” “Every vote deserves to be counted!”
I guess that’s only true when you’re “harvesting” what you believe are votes for democrats. Right Mr. Scott?
Voter demographics should not have a bearing on anything. Each voter is as important as any other voter. The important things are that each legal voter have the opportunity to vote, and that they vote only once.
According to new data released by the Pew Research Center, higher educational attainment is increasingly associated with Democratic Party affiliation and leaning:
“In 1994, 39% of those with a four-year college degree identified with or leaned toward the Democratic Party and 54% associated with the Republican Party. In 2017, those figures were exactly reversed.”
More than half of registered voters who identify as Democrat have a bachelor’s degree, while fewer than 4 in 10 registered voters who identify as Republican have a bachelor’s degree.
Those with graduate degrees are even more likely to find their political home in the Democratic Party, according to the survey.
Meanwhile, the GOP has increasingly become more of a political destination to Americans who lack a college degree, according to Pew, “Among those with no more than a high school education, 47% affiliate with the GOP or lean Republican, while 45% identify as Democrats or lean Democratic.”
In Mr. Scott’s estimation, “This may not bode well for the GOP long-term as the American public becomes increasingly educated.”
I think he means, “… as the American public becomes increasingly brain washed by our liberal education systems!”
According to Census Bureau data, “More than a third of American adults have a four-year college degree or higher, the highest level ever measured by the Census Bureau.”
Why Mr. Scott…, I do believe you are “fake news!”
You say, “This may not bode well for the GOP long-term as the American public becomes increasingly educated,” but if “more than a third of American adults have a four-year college degree or higher,” that would mean close to two thirds do not. How does that “not bode well for the GOP?”
Mr. Scott goes on to say, “As the Republican Party increasingly becomes the party of those without degrees, their leaders may feel pressure to champion policies that benefit working class voters…”
Well, we can’t have that! Right Mr. Scott?
That damn “working class,” right Mr. Scott?
Those pathetically ignorant “working class” voters who don’t deserve to vote, but pay for all of your liberal “give-away” programs, right Mr. Scott?
Pew data shows that the educational makeup of the two major parties’ electorates also has changed substantially over the past two decades, particularly when factoring in race:
“When race and education are taken into account, white voters who do to not have a college degree make up a diminished share of Democratic registered voters. White voters who do not have a four-year degree now constitute just a third of Democratic voters, down from 56% two decades ago. By contrast, non-college white voters continue to make up a majority of Republican and Republican-leaning registered voters at 59%.”
Ha! I knew it wouldn’t take long before race got involved in the issue!
Apparently “non-educated” white voters are less desirable that “non-educated” Black or Latino voters.
Mr. Scott finishes by saying, “Some top GOP officials have attracted attention for their desire to win women and people of color to their party. Perhaps moving forward we’ll see more emphasis on what can be done to win the highly educated.”
It seems to me, Mr. Scott, that your “highly educated” people are more often than not the people that are more “highly confused.”
Also, why is it that liberals seem to only value education as a result of a college education?
How about educations and training acquired by our “trade” professionals, like electricians, plumbers, welders, carpenters, HVAC technicians, mechanics, licensed practical nurses, construction professionals, et al? Do these educations, most of which are quite extensive, not count just because they are practical?
How about the soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines who serve in our military, most of whom do not have college educations? Do these educations not count because they are practical in nature?
No, these educations don’t “count” in the minds of liberals because these are educations that do not indoctrinate the students into the liberal political ideology.
Nicholas Carnes and Noam Lupu, also of The Washington Post, have their own take on voter demographics, specifically as they pertain to Donald Trump’s election and support.
Carnes and Lupu say that, “Media coverage of the 2016 election often emphasized Donald Trump’s appeal to ‘the working class.’ The Atlantic said that ‘the billionaire developer is building a blue-collar foundation.’ The Associated Press wondered what ‘Trump’s success in attracting white, working-class voters’ would mean for his general election strategy. On Nov. 9, the New York Times front-page article about Trump’s victory characterized it as ‘a decisive demonstration of power by a largely overlooked coalition of mostly blue-collar white and working-class voters.’”
“But what about education?” They continued. “Many pundits noticed early on that Trump’s supporters were mostly people without college degrees. There were two problems with this line of reasoning, however.”
“First, not having a college degree isn’t a guarantee that someone belongs in the working class, nor should it somehow indicate that these people are not successful (think Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Steve Jobs, Richard Branson, Aretha Franklin, Quentin Tarantino, Ellen DeGeneres, Simon Cowell, Ted Turner, Rachel Ray, Kim Kardasian, Mark Wahlberg, Al Pacino, Seth Rogan, Marshall “Eminem” Mathers, and Robert ‘F-you’ DeNiro, just to name a few).”
“And, second, although more than 70 percent of Trump supporters didn’t have college degrees, when we looked at the NBC polling data, we noticed something the pundits left out: during the primaries, about 70 percent of all Republicans didn’t have college degrees, close to the national average (71 percent according to the 2013 Census). Far from being a magnet for the less educated, Trump seemed to have about as many people without college degrees in his camp as we would expect any successful Republican candidate to have.”
So Mr. Scott, you have been debunked!
“Observers have often used the education gap to conjure images of poor people flocking to Trump, but the truth is, many of the people without college degrees who voted for Trump were from middle- and high-income households.”
Many, if not most, of these “observers” are quite confused and quite biased as well. “Poor people” flocking to candidates is, again, only desirable when they are “flocking” to the appropriate liberal candidate.
“In short, the narrative that attributes Trump’s victory to a “coalition of mostly blue-collar white and working-class voters” just doesn’t square with the 2016 election data. According to the election study, white non-Hispanic voters without college degrees making below the median household income made up only 25 percent of Trump voters.”
In a word, there are “uneducated voters” and then there are “uneducated voters.”
It would appear that it is the democrats who are a party of extremes. They seem to be comprised mostly of college eggheads, highly paid entertainers, extreme social and environmental interest groups, high school drop-outs, high school graduates who haven’t furthered their education, and all of those who live off of the government and have no intent to better themselves.
In a recent National Review article (The National Review is recognized as a leading conservative magazine, but was exposed during the election as just another “swampy,” establishment, media outlet) about Trump’s alleged support among the working class bordered on a call to arms against the less fortunate, saying that, “The white American underclass is in thrall to a vicious, selfish culture whose main products are misery and used heroin needles. Donald Trump’s speeches make them feel good. So does OxyContin,” and that “the truth about these dysfunctional downscale communities is that they deserve to die.”
According to Carnes and Lupu, “This kind of stereotyping and scapegoating is a dismaying consequence of the narrative that working-class Americans swept Trump into the White House. What deserves to die isn’t America’s working-class communities. It’s the myth that they’re the reason Trump was elected.”
Shame on you National Review, and shame on you Eugene Scott.
And thank you to Nicholas Carnes and Noam Lupu for reporting the facts and not twisting the facts to fit the liberal narrative.
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