# Interesting demographic profiles of voter orientation from the Pew Center

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-demographic-profiles-of-voter-orientation-from-the-pew-center/737525>\
**Category:** Politics & Elections\
**Created:** [November 14, 2015, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-demographic-profiles-of-voter-orientation-from-the-pew-center/737525 "2015-11-14T03:50:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\
**Post date:** [November 14, 2015, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-demographic-profiles-of-voter-orientation-from-the-pew-center/737525/1 "2015-11-14T03:50:24Z")

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Which way are people leaning? Interesting demographic breakdown by party affiliation.

[A Deep Dive Into Party Affiliation - Sharp Differences by Race, Gender, Generation, Education](http://www.people-press.org/2015/04/07/a-deep-dive-into-party-affiliation/)

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**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\
**Post date:** [November 14, 2015, 10:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-demographic-profiles-of-voter-orientation-from-the-pew-center/737525/2 "2015-11-14T10:02:17Z")

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Voters for the party supporting racist policies are overwhelmingly white.  
Americans with post-grad education tend to vote for the party that supports and believes in science.

(In other news … dog bites man.)

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**Author:** ![adaher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@adaher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adaher)\
**Post date:** [November 16, 2015, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-demographic-profiles-of-voter-orientation-from-the-pew-center/737525/3 "2015-11-16T22:10:16Z")

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I’m more interested in which groups are swinging towards the GOP this cycle, because the polls are consistently showing Clinton underperforming nationally.

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**Author:** ![squeegee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/squeegee/32/14537_2.png) [@squeegee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squeegee)\
**Post date:** [November 17, 2015, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-demographic-profiles-of-voter-orientation-from-the-pew-center/737525/4 "2015-11-17T16:03:25Z")

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Interesting paper, **astro**. Thanks!

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**Author:** ![Lance\_Turbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lance_turbo/32/6156_2.png) [@Lance\_Turbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lance_Turbo)\
**Post date:** [November 17, 2015, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-demographic-profiles-of-voter-orientation-from-the-pew-center/737525/5 "2015-11-17T17:44:26Z")

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> [@adaher](#):
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> I’m more interested in which groups are swinging towards the GOP this cycle, because the polls are consistently showing Clinton underperforming nationally.

Would you be so kind as to define ‘underperforming’. Clinton is polling against republicans about the same Obama versus McCain in Nov 2007 and Obama versus Romney in Nov 2011.