Quote (Black XistenZ @ 20 Aug 2018 17:48)
an interesting find from this article:
http://www.people-press.org/2018/08/09/an-examination-of-the-2016-electorate-based-on-validated-voters/http://assets.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2018/08/08145534/2-4.png12% of trump's voters were nonwhite, while 40% of clinton's voters were nonwhite.
but only 9% of clinton's voters were college-educated nonwhites, while 4% of Trump's were.
30% of clinton's voters were non-college nonwhites, 7% of trump's were.
Hence, relative to Clinton, Trump did better with college-educated minorities than with non-college minorities. Clinton edged out Trump by a factor of 30/7 = 4.28 among noncollege minorities, while college-educated minorities only gave her a 9/4 = 2.25-edge over Trump.
Dunno if we should or could read too much into this, but I found it interesting, particularly when compared with the common narrative about the 2016 demographics which focuses on the severe educational split among white voters.
drumpf got more crossover appeal in many states because he is a person of color (orange). rich privileged coastal elites and swamp-dwellers favored the rich white political dynasty (wannabe, at least) candidate
more white women voted for orange man bad over the candidate who was literally them in terms of gender and race. telling tale that is.
of course bigoted and out-of-touch lefties insult that group of women, insinuating they were “forced or coerced or pressured into their decision” rather than being capable of making their own mind up over which candidate best suited their interests.
This post was edited by excellence on Aug 20 2018 04:35pm