https://www.brookings.edu/blog/fixgov/2016/11/18/educational-rift-in-2016-election/

Heading into the election, many believed Hillary Clinton would become the first Democratic nominee for president to win white voters with college and postgraduate degrees in over six decades. This prediction did not quite come true. Clinton lost white college graduates by four percentage points (45 percent–49 percent). Clinton even under-performed among white women with a college degree, winning only 51 percent of their vote. Overall, however, Clinton won voters with a college degree (52 percent) and Trump won voters without a college degree (52 percent). Nationally, 27.8 percent of Americans hold at least a BA degree. Educational attainment is highly unequal among the states, however. In the most educated state, 38.2 percent have earned BAs or more; in the least educated, this figure stands at only 17.3 percent.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4008714&forum_id=2#36296497)

And the margins are pretty slim overall.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4008714&forum_id=2#36296508)

But it doesn't take away from my point. You're forcememing this with no evidence and the dems have never been that party. They have to clutch on to this to support their claim for moral superiority on all issues.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4008714&forum_id=2#36296512)

Regardless, the GOP isn't forcememing that the Democrats' side is wrong because their voters are less educated and poor. It's simply too close to be especially relevant in a 2 party system.

Dems, however, have to forcememe this to shut down dissent and try to claim moral superiority. They (through the media) try to shut down the validity of GOP policies by constantly alluding to this false talking point. They don't want to address the merits of the policies because then they've already lost.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4008714&forum_id=2#36296604)

EPAH: "LOL @ conturds' 'unthkew' idiocy"

Also EPAH: "UNTHKEW!"

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4008714&forum_id=2#36297293)

lol, it's really disgusting. they are like adolescents, obsessed in their fantasies of a nonexistent 'eliteness'.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4008714&forum_id=2#36296627)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4008714&forum_id=2#36296640)

lol libs

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4008714&forum_id=2#36296798)

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The truth is more complicated: many of the voters without college educations who supported Trump were relatively affluent. The graph below breaks down white non-Hispanic voters by income and education. Among people making under the median household income of $50,000, there was a 15 to 20 percentage-point difference in Trump support between those with a college degree and those without. But the same gap was present — and actually larger — among Americans making more than $50,000 and $100,000 annually.

To look at it another way, among white people without college degrees who voted for Trump, nearly 60 percent were in the top half of the income distribution. In fact, one in five white Trump voters without a college degree had a household income over $100,000.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4008714&forum_id=2#36296817)

Every good school is extremely lib

There is no good school in any red state. Even marginally good schools like Texas are in blue pockets of red states.

LOL

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4008714&forum_id=2#36296845)

you win lawyers because an oversupply of millions of shithead lawyers vote dem simply to protect their parasitic livelihood (tort reform, etc). most new lawyers are women and mercenary minorities/foreigners now, anyway. hardly a worthy 'elite'.

OTOH, 70% of surgeons vote republican.

https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/hospital-physician-relationships/physicians-in-these-14-specialties-more-likely-to-vote-republican.html

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4008714&forum_id=2#36296883)

The professional/grad degree divide I don’t believe is very large. You have lost college educated white voters for 60 years.

The no good schools in red states thing is dumb and not really responsive. Besides, Penn is a good school.

Of course you have a sizeable minority of elites running your party. But I’m the aggregate it’s not really true and even if it were the margins are small.

Notice how I’m not saying the republicans are the educated ones. It’s simply too close in a 2 party system. It’s dumb to think you have a sizeable advantage on the educated especially when the stats are the other way and the stats that favor only do so with small margins.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4008714&forum_id=2#36296964)

I grew up with parents who raised two kids on less than $50k for years. I'm not spoiled like most xo posters.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4008714&forum_id=2#36297926)

I could have gone to Harvard and been a big lawyer; I turned that down.

Oh and my body's on fire. :). HTH

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4008714&forum_id=2#36297901)

"think"

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4008714&forum_id=2#36298543)