If you let only educated people vote, Trump's margin probably goes up.
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If you let only educated people vote, Trump's margin probably goes up.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kellie_Leitch
Keep laughing
by all means
mate, she's a complete joke who literally only gets media attention because she supports trump
it can't
happen here
I do not for a second believe that there are 19 states in the union where the majority of the votes are cast by people with postsecondary education.
The Conservative leadership race is actually pretty weird in an interesting way; if you're to compare anyone to Trump, it'd be Kevin O'Leary, not Kellie Leitch. Leitch is just crazy, O'Leary is a businessman and kind of an eccentric in his personal life. A lot of the big names have actually gone ahead and declined to take part, which rules out a fabled Mulroney return and also my personal favourite in Peter MacKay.
It might be Maxime Bernier who wins in the end, so that would be something.
I actually went googling around for a few minutes to see if I could pull the article I got that number from, but there were to many with similar stories except on counties, cities, of just general demographics. At any rate the underlying premise holds for all of them though, that just about the single greatest determinative factor for which person would get your vote was education status
Upon thinking about it, this is probably a case where we're both right depending on how you go about it; if you start with highest education and go down, Clinton will mostly win up to a point, but if you remove lowest education first that cuts out a huge solid D demo first and Trump wins until you start stripping the middle.
Apparently Beijing has already phoned Obama over Trump's call
Don't be so sure that the bottom rung is solid D. Here's the white vote, separated by education levels:
High School or less: Clinton 27% Trump 69%
Some College or Associate degree: Clinton 29% Trump 67%
College Graduate: Clinton 40 Trump 54
Postgraduate Degree: Clinton 54 Trump 41
While I don't know the splits for the other demographics, there is a very clear trend here.
The trend is that white people are terrible
All I remembered where to find data for was the white vote, not a total view of the electorate. However, considering that the white vote takes up nearly 70% of the electorate, it is still a pretty large sample size.
It also fits in with the county-based education voting trends. Clinton improved Obama's margin by an average of 8 points in the 50 counties that had the largest percentage of college graduates. Trump improved Romneys margins in the lowest 50 counties by 11 points.
EDIT: Okay, got exit poll data for entire electorate:
High School or less: 45% Clinton 51% Trump
Some College: 43% Clinton 52% Trump
College Graduate: 49% Clinton 45% Trump
Postgraduate study: 58% Clinton 37% Trump
While not as clear a line as with just the white vote, Trump is still out performing Clinton at all levels below college graduate in the total electorate.