Posted on 02/23/2016 4:25:34 AM PST by elhombrelibre
Donald Trump is the candidate of the white working class. His popularity with this cohort was recognized early in his candidacy. The preponderance of commentary on the Trump phenomenon since then, whether favorable to the tumescent real-estate mogul and reality television star or not, has proceeded from this assumption.
These analyses affirm Trump’s allure to white, working-class voters as central to his candidacy. It is the pillar on which his dominant standing in the polls rests. If Trump wins the Republican nomination, it will be through their support.
Yet these analyses, revealing as they are, overlook a salient fact. The verdict of working-class voters will not be the only one rendered on Trump, or the most important one. However popular Trump may be with the working class, he is as unpopular with voters who have graduated from college, a group without whose backing the GOP has no shot at regaining the White House.
(Excerpt) Read more at thefederalist.com ...
The college educated folks want what the Donald has, is to become wealthy themselves. Jealous.
Whistling in the dark..
< speech type=”singsong” lang=en >
Dear Varad Mehta,
Please to understand Varad that I am white college graduate and I very much like Mr. Trump.
< /speech >
Stopped.
Reading.
Right.
There.
THAT’S IT!!! The Donald is done.
We can all pack our bags & go home now.
No idea. Just going to pop some popcorn and watch it play out.
...and past the graveyard. ;)
Go Trump
Baloney. When Trump is the Prez candidate, those numbers will all change as they come over to TRUMP to vote for the Pub candidate. Along with the Reagan Democrats, lots of Blacks, and Hispanics that know Trump will bring jobs and backup the economy. No one is going to want to vote for Hillary, because as a candidate, she sucks. Trump has it in the bag, and will be our next President.
Not everyone wants a tumescent candidate.
I graduated from college and he is very popular with me!
“Donald Trump is the candidate of the white working class.”
Spoken by a racist non-white fool.
-PJ
because oF people like these...all the more reason I SUPPORT TRUMP TO BE PRESIDENT!
“No one is going to want to vote for Hillary, because as a candidate, she sucks”.....
She sucked a long time before she ever became a candidate. Her history will tell you all you need to know. She MUST NOT be our next president, female or not.
I think the article is whistling in the dark and it also salves the wounded soul of the author to sneer at Trump supporters. Trump just won with the college educated demographic in SC just not by as high a % as the HS bracket because of the nutty liberals who are not going to vote for anyone a Trump voter could stomach.
“Looking at the age, sex, and educational breakdown of Trump voters, it seems that the candidate doesn’t have any one outstanding gap in support.”
“Take his stronghold of voters with only a high school diploma. This demographic has long been called Trump’s base, and sure enough, fully 45 percent of those voters sided with Trump, compared with 27 percent for Cruz and 16 percent for Rubio.”
“But college-educated Republicans - who, at 33 percent, make up a larger share of the electorate than voters with high school diplomas - still broke for Trump, if less decisively. He won 29 percent of those voters, compared with Rubio’s 24 percent. “
http://www.vox.com/2016/2/21/11081886/trump-south-carolina-demographics
They will still be saying this as Trump is being sworn in, still trying to guess his ceiling !!!!!
I don’t know any college graduates that are NOT Trump supporters.
You see, your not very smart if you support the Donald. Like we’ve not heard this line of attack before. Wonder how many fall for this garbage. Which would show just smart they are????
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