The charitable interpretation is just part of the complex of reasons they might support Trump even if they should know better – they might also be racists, sovereign-citizen government-hating types just looking for disruption, etc. Education tends to mitigate those things but it doesn’t necessarily cure them.
Bad math. You’re looking at the Hillary column but not the Trump column. Instead of putting your own spin on it, just look at the “Clinton-Trump diff.” in the last four lines. As said, many factors contribute to supporting one or the other, but from the summary column, it appears that, all else being equal, college education increases the Hillary leaning by 31 points among white men, and 41 points among white women. That’s yuuuuuge! Education is the best factor! It’s the best, believe me.
@wolfpup:
A 31 point change is 15.5% switching allegiance, i.e. “getting smart”. So my math isn’t so bad actually just thrown off a little by some of the smart guys going Johnson.
Actual smart guys going for Johnson is a vanishingly small fraction of Johnson supporters – in fact, I submit that supporting Johnson impeaches a person’s fair claim to being “smart”.
Well that was a needless shot but I still think that Hillary’s better numbers among college educated has very little to do with the critical thinking and government function knowledge that they all picked up at school.
The students may gain their primary expertise in a narrow field, but universities stress breadth of learning, especially in the more junior years – the art history major will be taking a science course, the science major will take a Shakespeare course, etc. So even the art major will be less likely to be a global warming denier, and even the business-school graduate is less likely to be a boorish philistine, and with any luck both are less likely to vote for a bloviating demagogue.
There may also be some element of correlation rather than causation there – the kinds of people motivated and able to attend and graduate from university perhaps helping to define the demographic as well as what they learn there.
I know a woman that college educated and there no way in HELL she going to vote for Hillary and there will college educated voting for Trump .He still GOP in office that voting for him.
I voted early today and I voted for the “Such a nasty lady”. There was no one else to really vote for I was stuck with her. I wish Joe Biden had ran !
I’d be interested to see how many of non-degreed voters are in rural areas. I think many here are overemphasizing the level of education. I’d bet anything that non-degreed urban voters lean heavily toward Hillary. Where and how people live has a lot bigger impact on their political views than their level of education.
This election has not divided the US. What I am surprised to learn is that the United States was already SO divided. And is full of so many Racist, misogynic asses.
As Soon as Trump won the GOP ticket, it was clear that there was only one way to go to beat him. HRC does not thrill me, but is a much better choice than Trump. Actually, the more I see of HRC, the more I like her.
Heh. I wrote, ‘choice’ above. Trump is not a choice. He’s ridiculous. That this isn’t obvious stuns me.
Well, don’t get complacent. As my father mentioned this weekend “Remember Jessie”.
Jesse Ventura was running third for Governor between two very unpopular politicians. He was something like 8 points behind either of them going into election day. And then people like me, in the voting booth, said “Oh well, I can’t win, so I’ll vote for him” and he won.
We need everyone with any level of sanity to get out to vote for Clinton, or like Brexit, there’s a very real chance Trump could win.
We’ve finally discovered how bad a campaign must look for the media to openly acknowledge it. Last week I think Krugman said: we may have moved from horse race coverage to Trump disaster porn.
