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2016 pollsters erred by not weighing education on state level, says political analyst
The Hill ^ | 09/24/18 | Julia Manchester

Posted on 09/24/2018 1:22:10 PM PDT by yesthatjallen

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To: yesthatjallen

Pollsters erred by not calling people outside the orbit of the top 20 cities. The farther you go from LA Chicago and New York, the more republican you become. This is true to a lessor extent in middle tier cities as well.


41 posted on 09/24/2018 2:19:22 PM PDT by poinq
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I believe many of you are missing my point.

The use of the demographic 'non-college educated whites' is a common metric used by pollsters.

It's used in most poll breakdown of voters.

I have never heard pollsters refer to 'non-college educated' blacks or Hispanics even though blacks and Hispanics have lower high school graduation rates than whites.

It seems pollsters stress 'non college educated white voters' as a means to demean white voters as poorly educated.

42 posted on 09/24/2018 2:21:01 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
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To: ExSES
Yes, that's why I believe pollsters stress 'non college educated whites'.

It plants the idea that white voters are less educated.

You don't hear pollsters refer to non-college educated blacks and Hispanics. This demographic is only used to define whites.

43 posted on 09/24/2018 2:24:19 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
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To: yesthatjallen

they don’t break the others down, because there is no big difference in the voting patterns of those other groups. If there were, they would.


44 posted on 09/24/2018 2:27:50 PM PDT by TexasFreeper2009
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To: BenLurkin
Time to eliminate tuition assistance for non-stem majors.

Time need to eliminate ALL government tuition assistance, period.

Don't forget - it's government tuition assistance that drove college costs up into the stratosphere.

The government - at least the Federal government - needs to get completely out of the education business - at ALL levels from pre-school to college.

F**k John Dewey!!

45 posted on 09/24/2018 2:28:36 PM PDT by Maceman (We need a temporary ban on Muslims just until churches and synagogues can be built in Mecca.)
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To: yesthatjallen

Actually, they did and knew what they were doing.

To pimp the polls for Hillary, they were heavily oversampling the one group that was in her camp.

That was the ‘overly college educated’ Crowd.


46 posted on 09/24/2018 2:35:23 PM PDT by Pikachu_Dad ("the media are selling you a line of soap)
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the better educated you are, the more likely you are to vote for a Democrat."

Absolute Hogwash !!!

Psychology, sociology, EDU, journalism, climate studies, victim studies, etc., etc., etc. graduates are low-IQ, sub-human, brainwashed idiots.

Any random collection of carpenters, plumbers, welders, ditch diggers, and janitors have higher IQs and more common sense than the above-listed brainwashed commie "graduates".

47 posted on 09/24/2018 2:36:13 PM PDT by meadsjn
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To: yesthatjallen

Education - not so much.

Indoctrination - Yes!


48 posted on 09/24/2018 2:40:41 PM PDT by Vlad The Inhaler (Liberalism is the philosophy of sniveling brats. - P.J. ORourke)
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Words, words, words ...

College screws up the American psyche and changes it to socialism if it can.

Non college generally is out doing shit, getting their hands dirty and paying bills.

49 posted on 09/24/2018 2:43:06 PM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true, I have no proof, but they're true.)
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To: yesthatjallen

Probably true, but I think it’s a subset of the problem caused by near-universal caller ID. You can’t “catch” people by phone anymore, so how do you get a representative sample?


50 posted on 09/24/2018 2:45:16 PM PDT by Behind the Blue Wall
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They are inferring that smarter people vote Democrat.


Yes, they are. But it’s odd that the democrats depend on near unanimous support from a demographic which has an average IQ of 85. But I imagine it is racist to point that out.


51 posted on 09/24/2018 2:45:38 PM PDT by hanamizu
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“the better educated you are”, the more likely you are to vote democrat?

Yet, colleges nowadays turn out people with degrees which are meaningless, and to earn them, all you have to do is attend or register, and then, you must follow and agree to the liberal agenda. IOW, what democrats consider “educated” is actually the same as indoctrinated.

People don’t have to attend college in order to think logically and to make decisions sensibly. In fact, it’s the opposite, where those with college degrees come out of college with their brains full of mush and believing the BS fed to them by liberal professors.

People don’t have to attend college to understand common sense, and nobody needs a degree to understand which side is more full of “sheet”.


52 posted on 09/24/2018 2:47:09 PM PDT by adorno
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To: God luvs America

College and Education can no longer be used together. Colleges do not educate they indoctrinate


53 posted on 09/24/2018 2:57:37 PM PDT by McGavin999 ("The press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood."Thomas Jeffersons)
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To: Maceman
Don't forget - it's government tuition assistance that drove college costs up into the stratosphere.


54 posted on 09/24/2018 2:58:10 PM PDT by Vlad The Inhaler (Liberalism is the philosophy of sniveling brats. - P.J. ORourke)
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To: yesthatjallen

They’re talking about fairly small differences as though they are definitive.

Yeah. 52%. That’s an overwhelming source of support.


55 posted on 09/24/2018 2:59:25 PM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: hanamizu
Yes, they are. But it’s odd that the democrats depend on near unanimous support from a demographic which has an average IQ of 85. But I imagine it is racist to point that out.

I've said that myself.

Democrats brag they have more college grads but two of their largest demographics have low high school graduation rates.

It's something most people don't notice or ignore.

56 posted on 09/24/2018 3:00:39 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
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To: Vlad The Inhaler

Good one


57 posted on 09/24/2018 3:01:05 PM PDT by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: yesthatjallen

Two Bachelors degrees and a MBA here yet I was uneducated enough to vote for President Trump.


58 posted on 09/24/2018 3:10:06 PM PDT by TopDog2 (Onward Christian soldiers)
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Um, ok. You go with that.


59 posted on 09/24/2018 3:20:39 PM PDT by Baldwin77 (They hated Reagan too ! TRUMP TOUGH - AMERICA STRONG)
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Ifn dem dere Democrats is so smart how come dey aint rich too?


60 posted on 09/24/2018 3:27:49 PM PDT by gnarledmaw (Hive minded liberals worship leaders, sovereign conservatives elect servants.)
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