The Education Gap in Presidential Politics

[SweetSue92]

Methinks my neck got redder reading this thread.....~S~

Mine too, and I live in the suburbs and regrettably have a college degree. Still my neck is crimson

 

[schmidlap]

Well the most educated people had themselves injected with multiple mRNA shots and are now getting clots, cancers, autoimmunes and God only knows what all else.

So there's that

How does your fanatical submission to ideologues in medical matters relate to the disparate political affinities of the best-educated and least-educated states?

 

[SweetSue92]

How does your fanatical submission to ideologues in medical matters relate to the disparate political affinities of the best-educated and least-educated states?

How many boosters have you had, and when was your last

 

[schmidlap]

How many boosters have you had, and when was your last

Irrelevant. Whether an individual respects medical science in medical matters or submits to the dogma of ideologues is a disparate matter from the political affinities of the best-educated and worst-educated states.

At the extremes of the best-educated/least-educated continuum and their respective electoral votes:

1) Massachusetts [11]
2) Colorado [10]
3) Maryland [10]
4) Connecticut [07]
5) New Hampshire [04]
6) Vermont [03]
7) Virginia [13]
8] Minnesota [10]
9) Washington [12]
0) New Jersey [14]

vs

41) Tennessee [11]
42) Texas [40]
43) Oklahoma [07]
44) Alabama [11]
45) Nevada [06]
46) Kentucky [08]
47) Arkansas [06]
48] Louisiana [08]
49) Mississippi [06]
50) West Virginia [04]

 

[Picaro]

Only the stupid and uneducated think there is a 'gap'. Grade inflation has made Degrees essentially worthless. The average grade at Harvard is 'A'. lol you really think college is sign of intelligence and education any more ??? Wrong, it's a sign of dumbassery and most likely a loan shark victim. Any C or C+ student from the 1960's is by far more educated than any from the 1980's on, but then so was the average 8th grader back then.

 

[rightwinger]

The last year of Trump's Presidency was dominated by the Pandemic, where he was in the perverse position of "leading the fight" to overcome its effect, while having essentially no power to affect public policy - which rested in the State Governors. (If you don't understand this point, send a letter to your HS and demand a rebate for your Civics class). Trump could open or close no schools, businesses, restaurants, day-care centers, or almost anything else. Only State Governors had that power.

Is it any wonder that whoever was President at the time would bear the brunt of the Public's anger, with the Leftist Media feeding it constantly?

(And of course, the first 2-1/2 years of his Presidency were dominated by totally-debunked "Russia collusion" hoax).

Getting back to the point of this thread, considering all Bachelor's Degrees as a single category is statistically the same as counting Killed and Injured as a single category; they are not. A substantial percentage of college degrees in this country are either totally lacking in academic rigor ("Education") or utterly worthless ("Ethnic Studies"), and are offered by colleges as a way of padding their student numbers with unqualified, uninterested young people whose main reason for going there is the avoidance of adult responsibilities. People with real college degrees (engineers, accountants, doctors, lawyers, business execs) are very supportive of Trump, but nobody carves out people with "real" college degrees, so the statistic does not exist.

It is analogous to another part of the spectrum where UNIONS support Harris, but UNION WORKERS (e.g., the Teamsters) support Trump by almost two to one.

At the end of 2019, Trump was headed for a second term.
The economy was good and people were satisfied with the state of things.
Then COVID hit.
COVID cost Trump the election. Not because so many died, but because of his complete lack of leadership in a crisis.

After 9-11, the country was in turmoil. But Bush rallied the country around him, there was no partisan bickering and finger pointing. He sought to unite us to fight terrorism.

Trump tried to deny COVID, spread misinformation, was only concerned with how quickly it would be over and would not impact the election.
Trump did not ask…..We need to fight this together
But was more concerned with…..It is not my fault

 

[Picaro]

https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/college-grades-have-become-acharade-its-time-to-abolish-them-ee4eb3fe

Grade inflation at American universities is out of control. The statistics speak for themselves. In 1950, the average GPA at Harvard was estimated at 2.6 out of 4. By 2003, it had risen to 3.4. Today, it stands at 3.8.

 

[Unkotare]

Are you one of those people that think using "flowery" language will make you sound smarter than you are, Schmidlap?

He is using most of that "flowery language" incorrectly.

 

[Rawley]

If you believe that the electorate will be reconsidering the performance of Trump/Pence in November, I seriously doubt it.

Well, they will certainly be considering how fucked things have become under Biden/Harris

 

[rightwinger]

A substantial percentage of college degrees in this country are either totally lacking in academic rigor ("Education") or utterly worthless ("Ethnic Studies"), and are offered by colleges as a way of padding their student numbers with unqualified, uninterested young people whose main reason for going there is the avoidance of adult responsibilities.

A continuing Conservative myth.
Most degrees are worthless and students are lazy.

The overwhelming majority of degrees are in Computer Science, Business, Healthcare, Education, STEM
Students flock to majors that promise jobs once they graduate

 

[schmidlap]

Well, they will certainly be considering how fucked things have become under Biden/Harris

Geezer Trump having achieving a dismal 34% public approval is nearly as bad as Geezer Biden's current 39.5%.

 

[Rawley]

Geezer Trump having achieving a dismal 34% public approval is nearly as bad as Geezer Biden's current 39.5%.

And yet your joyous vapid twit is barely tied and heading downward against that geezer.

 

[schmidlap]

And yet your joyous vapid twit is barely tied and heading downward against that geezer.

If that is what you need to believe, that is your prerogative, of course.

I respectfully await the will of the People that I will respect.

 

[Man With A Plan]

But Trump didn’t cure cancer….he tried to take away healthcare
He didn’t bring peace to the world…..he fractured our alliances and praised dictators
He didn’t end national debt…..he added $8 trillion to it

Trump didn't try to take away healthcare...he did his best to make sure Americans still had a choice when it came to healthcare. Kamala Harris on the other hand wants to get rid of private healthcare insurance and force everyone onto government healthcare.

Trump didn't get us into any new wars while he was in office. He did start the process of getting us OUT of the longest running war in our history! He also got three different Arab nations to sign peace accords with Israel. What alliance is it you think he "shattered"?

Covid added a huge amount of money to the deficit. That's what happens when you shut down an entire country's economy and have to subsidize out of work people. If you're seriously worried about the national debt...why would you support any progressive...who's answer to every problem is to spend billions of dollars on it?

 

[rightwinger]

Trump didn't try to take away healthcare...he did his best to make sure Americans still had a choice when it came to healthcare.

Yes he did
He tried to repeal Obamacare with no replacement

McCain stopped him

 

[rightwinger]

Covid added a huge amount of money to the deficit. That's what happens when you shut down an entire country's economy and have to subsidize out of work people.

Trump had $6 trillion additional debt before COVID

 

[Man With A Plan]

Yes he did
He tried to repeal Obamacare with no replacement

McCain stopped him

Interesting...so what you're claiming is that if Obamacare was repealed...there would have been no healthcare in the United States?

 

[Man With A Plan]

Trump had $6 trillion additional debt before COVID

"Of the $8.4 trillion President Trump added to the debt, $3.6 trillion came from COVID relief laws and executive orders, $2.5 trillion from tax cut laws, and $2.3 trillion from spending increases, with the remaining executive orders having costs and savings that largely offset each other."

How Much Did President Trump Add to the Debt? | Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget

2024-01-10-Note: We published a more comprehensive, up-to-date

www.crfb.org

 

[DGS49]

"Of the $8.4 trillion President Trump added to the debt, $3.6 trillion came from COVID relief laws and executive orders, $2.5 trillion from tax cut laws, and $2.3 trillion from spending increases, with the remaining executive orders having costs and savings that largely offset each other."

How Much Did President Trump Add to the Debt? | Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget

2024-01-10-Note: We published a more comprehensive, up-to-date

www.crfb.org

"Trump's" tax cut has increased Federal income tax revenues by more than a trillion a year. Just thought I'd mention it. ALL of the increased deficit is Democrat spending. All. Every bit. No exceptions. It was the same for the Reagan tax cuts, which also increased Federal revenues. The Democrats who controlled Congress increased spending to consume all the increase in revenues, and then some...then they blamed Reagan for the deficits.

The Left is evil. Always has been.

 

[rightwinger]

"Trump's" tax cut has increased Federal income tax revenues by more than a trillion a year. Just thought I'd mention it. ALL of the increased deficit is Democrat spending. All. Every bit. No exceptions. It was the same for the Reagan tax cuts, which also increased Federal revenues. The Democrats who controlled Congress increased spending to consume all the increase in revenues, and then some...then they blamed Reagan for the deficits.

The Left is evil. Always has been.

The old….All tax cuts pay for themselves myth