Posted on 07/28/2015 6:43:56 AM PDT by GoneSalt
In the last few weeks, Americans (and the media) have watched in awe as a New York real estate magnate prone to bellicose behavior and hyperbole has become the GOP's leading candidate for the White House.
But how did this come to be? A lot of it has to do with education.
Trump's support is strongest with Republicans in the Midwest, conservatives across the country who do not have a college degree and (perhaps not surprisingly) those who report the most negative views of immigration and Mexican immigrants in particular, according to a Washington Post-ABC News poll released last week.
To be clear, the poll found that 60 percent of all Americans support the idea of offering undocumented immigrants currently in the United States some form of legal status, and 57 percent told pollsters they believe that immigrants strengthen the country. But there are plenty of people who see things differently. And those people appear to be concentrated among whites, Republicans and those with lower levels of education.
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Of course. Anyone who voted for BOzo must be a genius.
Yo, ah jes be’s too dam dum to sidaround waytin fo sumpin ta tear down, beat up oh set on fire. Too dum to do nuppin cep get mah free stuff. Obama ain’t pait mah mortgage yet but he will!! He jes reel bizzy. He will doh! Affah dat iz all gravy!
Well she has a “masters” in I’m sure something that involved lots of math or physics....or most likely using the letters LGBTQ over and over again, along with writing poetry about her crotch.
That was my thinking. The demographic of the Democratic voting base is, well, it’s hard to be polite.
The gloves are coming off - how long will European Americans put up with this? Our thoughts are confined to whispers between friends and family.... while these vermin over run the country.
Yeah, and her college degree is probably in some really difficult discipline such as women’s studies or black studies.
“ignerint.”
In Georgia its “ignernt” LOL!
But you are so right the WaPo is really struggling now to explain how Trump could possibly be doing so well. I guess I’ll have to turn my Master’s degree back in and Mr. GG2 can’t do much about his genius IQ. Not to mention my BFF the attorney and her IT management husband. LOL!
First lmao of the day...ty
Ms. Ross learned her propaganda and nastiness lessons quite well.
Anyway, she’s way too brilliant now to realize there’s something grand about common sense, knowing how to think for oneself, and an education in life lessons that a university cannot teach.
Janell Ross is a reporter for The Fix who writes about race, gender, immigration and inequality.
So predictable......lol
Too funny. Janell Ross is proving that the Democrat Party is no longer the Party of the "Working Man" but that of the elitists.
Not having a college degree is the new “high school dropout”.
Yep! I agree. The author is snob.
Sorry, no doctorate, just a couple master’s in engineering and business management...
This is a typical and expected group think piece.
Her executive editor told her to write a piece disparaging Trump supporters as stupid to provide rational explanation for the phenomenon and prevent the group members from reconsidering their existing assumptions.
That’s a mouthful, but that’s all this is.
There, fixed for accuracy...
the infowarrior
My standards have expanded with my years.
I have 2 Master’s but I guess smart is knowing that Obama is a god.
She is, of course, completely wrong. It is the well educated and successful who are supporting Trump. His support is based on his complete disregard for elitist politicians and media types.
Trump is in no way a viable candidate for the presidency. His positions, however, are shaking the stiffness out of the Republican party. It is my sincere hope that McConnell, Boehner and the other leadership whores will be destroyed and responsible leadership will take over the party.
yer also ignerint. ................... I can read and write courser in English, I don’t need any Union to read to me what I should vote for, or listen to. I see what passes as Democrats on the voting lines, seems to me the most obvious ignerint folks have problems speaking regular English. If only they be, like I be. :>) At the rate we keep lowering the education scale, we will all soon meet the highly intelligent level of this reporter.
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