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The gap is something new in American politics, and it has fundamentally changed how campaigns are waged. Once, white voters as a whole were “persuadable’’—they might have leaned toward one party or the other, but no big bloc within the group was out of reach. Today, as the chart below shows, a campaign for Congress in many places starts with 60% of college-educated white women favoring the Democratic nominee. An even larger share of white men without degrees favor the Republican—making both essentially unreachable by the opposing candidate.
Now, educational attainment has supercharged that split among white voters, who account for more than 70% of the electorate. Those with bachelor’s degrees have shifted toward the Democratic Party, while the Republican Party has gained among voters who don’t have four-year college degrees.
The educational divide isn’t strong among nonwhite voters, who lean heavily toward the Democrats. In fact, minority voters with and without bachelor’s degrees have become more politically aligned in recent years.
The changes help explain why Democrats are nominating so many women for Congress, and why the fight for control of the House has shifted to districts with higher levels of education. One other big shift in the electorate further shows how the Republican appeal among college-educated voters is weakening: White men with bachelor’s degrees, once the most reliable Republican voters, now swing between parties and in the past year have consistently polled in favor of Democrats.
originally posted by: Middleoftheroad
One of the comments for that article was very fitting. Basically saying people with lots of college debt lean toward the Dems for socialism, while the people without the college debt lean towards conservatism. Makes sense to me.
originally posted by: ketsuko
Huh ... and some of us still prefer Republican control with our education.
I think a better thing to look at would be married v. unmarried. Generally speaking, married women with families, educated or not, tend to prefer Republican control.
The other thing to consider is that the education establishment has become overall hostile to white men, too. Since the '50s more women have gotten degrees than men in the universities, so that chart is a bit misleading. The education establish overall favors women despite constant whining that women are always being left behind.
originally posted by: burdman30ott6
a reply to: Middleoftheroad
If only the Soviets had pushed more people to college, Stalin would still be ruling a Union...
Further proof that the American education system doesn't make anyone educated or smart as much as it indoctrinates them and grades them based on how much of the Kool Aide they slurped down.
originally posted by: Middleoftheroad
One of the comments for that article was very fitting. Basically saying people with lots of college debt lean toward the Dems for socialism, while the people without the college debt lean towards conservatism. Makes sense to me.
originally posted by: ketsuko
originally posted by: Middleoftheroad
One of the comments for that article was very fitting. Basically saying people with lots of college debt lean toward the Dems for socialism, while the people without the college debt lean towards conservatism. Makes sense to me.
That would again tie into married v. unmarried.
Unmarried people are really going to feel that debt more on one income, especially if you are talking about an unmarried woman who has bought into the feminist hype that she can have everything, including a family (child or children), on her own, no man needed.
originally posted by: ketsuko
...no man needed.