Posted on 12/21/2015 7:52:32 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
It's been obvious for months to anyone reading polls that break down by educational levels that Donald Trump's main support base isn't among conservatives, or moderates, or old folks, or new folks, but among non-college-educated Republicans. This helps explain why he gets away with defying GOP-elite orthodoxy on issues like immigration and trade and entitlements; his white working-class fans have bonded with Republicans over cultural more than economic issues, and don't particularly agree with the country-club wing of the party on a lot of policy issues.
But what about those college-educated Republicans who do favor free trade and "entitlement reform" and maybe guest-worker status for undocumented immigrants so as to make sure the gardens get tended and the meals cooked?
At FiveThirtyEight today, the Cook Political Report's outstanding analyst David Wasserman looks at the highly educated cadre of GOP voters that flocked to Mitt Romney's upscale banner in 2012, and speculates that a consolidation of such voters — like Mitt accomplished against the divided downscale support bases of Gingrich and Santorum — might carry the day this time as well. Who might benefit from this well-heeled coalition? Perhaps Marco Rubio, who, as Wasserman notes, has the highest college-to-non-college ratio of support in the field, at least in recent polls. Or perhaps the Establishment candidates battling Rubio for pretty much the same votes in New Hampshire, like Christie, Kasich and Bush....
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No, he supported the legislation, TPA, that enable the job killing TPP plus two other super secret “trade” deals. He is on record for wanting to increase legal immigration and greatly increasing H1B visas. He is also wobbly on illegal immigration. Ted Cruz is not a friend of American working class voters. In fact he looks an awful lot like a globalist. However he would be better then anyone running other than Trump and vastly better than she who shall not be named.
I know born on US soil gives citizenship at birth but I think that needs to be changed pronto. I also do not think that was the intent of the 14th
I completely agree with you.
Didn’t I read somewhere, Cruz is polling 25% with blacks or something like that?
I believe so.
The site owner agrees with me, not you. Are his “good intentions helping our march to Hell” as well?
The site owner agrees with me, not you. Are his “good intentions helping our march to Hell” as well?
Were these blue collar voters as dumb and uneducated when Obama was courting them 7 years ago?
Maybe the common folks are drawn to Trump not because they are ignorant, but because they’ve been getting screwed for decades.
It is his site, he will and should support the candidates he likes best. That doesn’t change my opinion, however, I have not devoted millions of hours and millions of dollars to providing this website for the public. I will not insult the man for his beliefs.
But you’ll insult me? Okay.
And I am insulting you how?
The conservative ones will. The moderates will stick with Trump.
Scratch the surface of many Trump supporters and you find interesting things lurking beneath.
Things like birtherism, anti-Christian sentiment (one of the most recent comments concerned Cruz’s “silly religious crap”), support for Obamacare, and dismissal of abortion as no big deal.
Oh, and I saw a post which said the Constitution is dead and we need to install Trump as a dictator.
And people expect me to support Trump? Not a chance in hell.
Cruz rally threads do good to get 20 posts on FR. Geesh
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