Obama's terror speech perfectly highlights reasons for Trump's rise

Reuters Blogs ^ | 12-7-2015 | Bill Schneider

[Citizen Zed]

Here's President Barack Obama on the war against Islamic State: "Our success won't depend on tough talk or abandoning or values or giving into fear. . . . We will prevail by being strong and smart."

Here's Donald Trump: "Every time things get worse, I do better. Because people have confidence in me." He promised, 'We're going to be so tough and so mean and so nasty."

What we're seeing right now in American politics is class warfare. But not the kind of class warfare Bernie Sanders would understand. It's not the working class versus the 1 percent. It's the working class versus the educated elite. In fact, one of the richest men in the world is leading the revolt: Trump.

Trump's support for the Republican nomination is not defined by ideology or age or gender. It's defined by education. Among GOP voters with a college degree in the latest CNN poll, Trump comes in fourth with just 18 percent. But he has a huge lead among non-college voters - 46 percent. No other candidate comes close.

Today, in the United States, the richer you are, the more likely you are to vote Republican. The better educated you are, the more likely you are to vote Democratic.

[treetopsandroofs]

Wow, still in before today’s TDS FReak posters. :)

[Verginius Rufus]

Are you trying to restrict us to correct spellings?

One explanation for the origin of "O.K." is that it was an abbreviation of Andrew Jackson's spelling of "all correct": "oll korrect."

[Mollypitcher1]

LOL I Agree and I’m Ivy League.......from before they all went whacko........

[LibFreeUSA]

I’m a “college grad”, and I’m FOR TRUMP!!! .... THERE!

[oldvirginian]

Our rebellion against the king of England was started and run by the people who had the most to lose.

Washington, Jefferson and Hancock were wealthy men.
Others like Adams were very educated.

They all could have saved themselves a lot of headaches and effort but they chose to do the right thing.

Cruz and Trump are leading the current rebellion. They could just as easily gone along to get along but they chose the harder and much less traveled path.

Thank the Almighty for them both.

[infowarrior]

The better educated you are, the more likely you are to vote Democratic.

This 'factoid' only holds true if you are equating indoctrination with education. The two are not, never have been, nor never will be, synonymous. Thus, the entire premise is faulty from jump. Original author should try again, and this time, be serious...

the infowarrior

[JusPasenThru]

93% of statistics on the Internet are total fabrications.

89% of violent criminals are Democrat.

Unwed mothers are 99% likely to be Democrat.

The higher the density of Democrats, the higher the crime rates.

We all can play this game...

[pepsi_junkie]

The standard leftist playbook is to smear republicans as either evil or dumb. They've been trying "evil" for months, ever since Trump announced. Looks like over the past couple of weeks they are switching to try dumb. But they have added a twist. Trump's not dumb, YOU are for falling for that evil bastard.

So last week he was being compared to Hitler's ability to stir up crowds of the ignorant, this week we are told that only the uneducated rubes like him.

[petercooper]

Remember, most liberal “intellectuals” are simply educated beyond their intelligence.

[TruthWillWin]

"The better educated you are the more likely you are to vote Democrat".

Believe this is not so, seems I recall reading a study a few years back that showed a slightly higher percentage of those with degrees voted Republican. However, those with degrees that had no real world emplyment experience, those in academia, voted overwhelming Democrat.

[SunkenCiv]

Here's Donald Trump: "Every time things get worse, I do better. Because people have confidence in me." He promised, 'We're going to be so tough and so mean and so nasty." What we're seeing right now in American politics is class warfare. But not the kind of class warfare Bernie Sanders would understand. It's not the working class versus the 1 percent. It's the working class versus the educated elite. In fact, one of the richest men in the world is leading the revolt: Trump. Trump's support for the Republican nomination is not defined by ideology or age or gender. It's defined by education. Among GOP voters with a college degree in the latest CNN poll, Trump comes in fourth with just 18 percent. But he has a huge lead among non-college voters - 46 percent. No other candidate comes close. Today, in the United States, the richer you are, the more likely you are to vote Republican. The better educated you are, the more likely you are to vote Democratic.

Quibble -- The better educated you are the more years of post-high school education, the more likely you are to vote Democratic. Better yet, the fewer years one is exposed to the Partisan / anti-American propaganda farms, the more likely one will reject the Demagogic Party agitprop.

[Man from Oz]

Ditto me as well.

MFO

[Paradox]

This line is NOT a proven fact:

The better educated you are, the more likely you are to vote Democratic.

What the facts show is that the "more educated" you are, the more you are liable to vote Democrat. But does MORE mean BETTER? Not neccessarily. If you break this down by area of study, I think the results become more interesting. I dont have the data at hand, but Engineering degreed tend to vote more conservatively than, say, Social work degreed.

[GilGil]

Boy it looks more and more likely Trump is going to win Iowa and New Hampshire!!!

[Mr. Jeeves]

Today, in the United States, the richer you are, the more likely you are to vote Republican. The better educated you are, the more likely you are to vote Democratic.

That sounds perilously close to an admission that one has nothing to do with the other - so why are young people paying such vast sums to be "educated" on Democrat campuses? :)

[JoeFromSidney]

Well, it is said that in graduate school you learn more and more about less and less, until you know everything about nothing

There once was a student named Esser
• Whose knowledge grew lesser and lesser.
• It at last grew so small
• He knew nothing at all
• And became a tenured professor.