10-19-2016, 03:34 PM
(10-19-2016, 03:21 PM)Dan Wrote: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/20/upshot...e-war.html
Quote:Hillary Clinton has built a commanding lead over Donald J. Trump in national polls, but she still has one big weakness: white working-class voters, especially men.
Even now, she is underperforming any recent Democratic candidate among white voters without a college degree.
It’s a very different story from 2008, when Barack Obama built a big national lead by attracting white working-class voters in states like Wisconsin and Indiana.
Instead, Mrs. Clinton’s gains come from big margins among well-educated voters and an electorate that’s much more diverse than it was even a decade ago...
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/20/upshot...e-war.html
LBJ lost well-educated white voters in his landslide against Barry Goldwater. Of course that was a much-smaller demographic then than 52 years later.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.