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Although at this point that might be more class/intelligence signalling than any principled belief in social welfare. You don't have to support the poor to realize that it's a bad idea to support a mad death cult full of people who are toxic to your career.

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White college graduates are almost evenly split between the parties..

And what does the white highschool dropout split look like?

Obama lost the white non-college educated vote by 26 points to Romney, by the way.

> Obama lost the white non-college educated vote by 26 points to Romney, by the way.

I’m sorry what??

It was the complete opposite. Obama won the “high-school dropout” vote overwhelmingly. Had narrow majority amongst those who graduated and actually lost college graduate vote to Romney by 4%…

Romney also won every income bracket above 50k

Less educated people started voting for the Republicans in 2016 but not quite to the extent they voted for Obama.

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