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re: Nate Silver analysis: dems are strongest with highly educated but mediocre-income voters

Posted on 7/21/26 at 4:09 pm to
Posted by Sweep Da Leg
Member since Sep 2013
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Posted on 7/21/26 at 4:09 pm to
Numbers aren’t accurate because of fraudulent elections
Posted by BTROleMisser
Murica'
Member since Nov 2017
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Posted on 7/21/26 at 4:11 pm to
The advanced liberal arts degree'd barista crowd.
Posted by VOLhalla
Knoxville
Member since Feb 2011
5202 posts
Posted on 7/21/26 at 4:11 pm to
That chart shows democrats doing well with post-grads of all income levels. Getting 66% of high-earners with post-grad degrees is significant

Really the only thing to take away from that chart is if someone has a HS degree or less they skew heavily republican but if someone has a college degree they skew heavily democratic.
Posted by BTROleMisser
Murica'
Member since Nov 2017
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Posted on 7/21/26 at 4:11 pm to
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Actually, NGOs pay quite well


Depends on which NGO.
Posted by Zach
Gizmonic Institute
Member since May 2005
117928 posts
Posted on 7/21/26 at 4:11 pm to
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Having a college degree and working at Starbucks will do that.

As a long time SB customer who chats with barristas...you are absolutely right.
Posted by lake chuck fan
Vinton
Member since Aug 2011
24606 posts
Posted on 7/21/26 at 4:15 pm to
The fact that the huge majority of progressive minded commie, weak arse folks are consolidated in large cities isn't a surprise.

Not much difference from what's always been the basic difference in cultures/beliefs in our nation, all the way back to the Civil War.
No different (minus that slavery issue).
Us folks that say "yes ma'am and no ma'am ", and those that don't. IMHO
Posted by Herschal
USA
Member since Sep 2011
2280 posts
Posted on 7/21/26 at 4:16 pm to
Golden Nate Silver might finally be open to reality.
Posted by ReauxlTide222
St. Petersburg
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Posted on 7/21/26 at 4:17 pm to
I’ve asked Slow about this a few times.

He has, at times, mentioned that more educated folks break left to bolster points he was making. In his defense, he hasn’t quite used it to make fun of right wing voters, but the implication is there. It’s possible I read too much into it.

Anyways, I always try to get to the bottom of that stat. It’s parroted as a positive for the left. But I don’t think it necessarily is.
Posted by the808bass
The Lou
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Posted on 7/21/26 at 4:19 pm to
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In other words, they are under-performers who want to compensate for their underperformance by parasitization off of over-performers' earnings.


It’s worse than that. They believe they are valuable to society based on their master’s in Environmental Dance Theory. The fact that they are working at a senior living facility as the Activities Director only validates the failings of late stage capitalism to recognize their intrinsic and massive value to society.

The overproduction of unemployable degreed “elites” (a low-class chattering class) is a benefit to the communists. It’s another demographic ripe for revolutionary thought.
Posted by lake chuck fan
Vinton
Member since Aug 2011
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Posted on 7/21/26 at 4:26 pm to
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I’ve asked Slow about this a few times.

He has, at times, mentioned that more educated folks break left to bolster points he was making. In his defense, he hasn’t quite used it to make fun of right wing voters, but the implication is there. It’s possible I read too much into it.


I don't pretend to speak for everyone here, but me.... I could give two shits what that dishonest, low character, no principled person has to say. IMHO
Posted by the808bass
The Lou
Member since Oct 2012
129558 posts
Posted on 7/21/26 at 4:30 pm to
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It’s parroted as a positive for the left. But I don’t think it necessarily is.


Oh, it’s not.
Posted by back9Tiger
Island Coconut Salesman
Member since Nov 2005
18069 posts
Posted on 7/21/26 at 4:41 pm to
So basket weaving and PHD in gender studies are highly educated? please.
Posted by Turbeauxdog
Member since Aug 2004
24276 posts
Posted on 7/21/26 at 4:42 pm to
We knew this in the 2016 election.

Trump won educated voters over 40k income or something.
Posted by Penrod
Member since Jan 2011
57093 posts
Posted on 7/21/26 at 4:42 pm to
Exactly! The dems are popular with all the people who got idiotic degrees with government loans. These are the college voters who never should have been in college.
Posted by Bass Tiger
Member since Oct 2014
56372 posts
Posted on 7/21/26 at 4:52 pm to
Highly educated with over $100,000 dollars of student loan debt, making $75k year, or worse yet, working a job that doesn't require a degree at all and they still have that phat student loan debt with a worthless degree.

This right here^^^^^ comprises a large percentage of Democratic Socialist Party voters
Posted by NC_Tigah
Make Orwell Fiction Again
Member since Sep 2003
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Posted on 7/21/26 at 4:57 pm to
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They believe they are valuable to society based on their master’s in Environmental Dance Theory
Probably so.
Posted by prplngldtigr
just up da bayou from down
Member since Dec 2004
8317 posts
Posted on 7/21/26 at 4:59 pm to
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Really the only thing to take away from that chart is if someone has a HS degree or less they skew heavily republican but if someone has a college degree they skew heavily democratic.



So working class. Taxpayers. Welders, fitters, carpenters, mechanics, etc..

People that work with their hands and make the country go.

The college grad who was indoctrinated since kindergarten votes left and when they get what they vote for will be confused when their finances decline and decline and decline. All that “education”! I’m too “smart” to be poor!
Posted by dgnx6
Member since Feb 2006
91087 posts
Posted on 7/21/26 at 5:01 pm to
I always find the highly educated angle funny. To be highly educated you have to pay for it.


Poor people don't have access to that. Democrats shite on poor people's lack of access to education.


Posted by Great Plains Drifter
Flyover, U.S.A.
Member since Jul 2019
10495 posts
Posted on 7/21/26 at 5:06 pm to
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Nate Silver analysis: dems are strongest with highly educated but mediocre-income voters


Try “highly indoctrinated” Nate.

It’s reasonable to call in to question anyone who supports modern progressive leftist initiatives as being legitimately “educated”.

Posted by jeffsdad
Member since Mar 2007
25225 posts
Posted on 7/21/26 at 5:09 pm to
Dems are unanimous among the big city ghettos, that’s how they win elections. Among people that can’t read pass the third grade level
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