The forgotten educated
by digby
Check this out from Nate Cohn:
President Trump’s strength among less educated white voters has received plenty of attention since his surprise victory in last November’s election. His weakness among well-educated voters has been dissected less thoroughly. But he was nearly as weak among well-educated white voters as he was strong among less educated white voters. His losses — the voters who switched from Mr. Romney to Hillary Clinton — were largest in well-educated but traditionally Republican areas like Georgia’s Sixth.
I realize that educated people aren’t Real Americans and therefore, matter not one bit. But it’s an interesting factoid.
The article is about the Ossof-Handel race which has taken on out-sized significance. It is one of the most well educated districts in the country and it has traditionally done extremely well with Republicans. College educated whites have voted Republicans since they began polling. But over the years, accelerating recently, they have been becoming more and more Democratic.
Some of Clinton’s strategy was based upon that shift and unfortunately, it didn’t quite get over the line in places where it could have made a difference. Trump loved the “poorly educated” (as he put it) and they loved him.
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