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Shermann

(9,072 posts)
1. "The electorate is becoming more polarized around education"
Mon Oct 7, 2024, 12:28 PM
Oct 2024

That's a very politically correct way to characterize it.

CrispyQ

(41,104 posts)
2. What really stuck out to me was when he said
Mon Oct 7, 2024, 12:32 PM
Oct 2024

"The electorate is becoming more polarized along education & democrats, at least among those with a college degree, are the beneficiaries of it..."

No wonder they want to shut down the Department of Education.

Bernardo de La Paz

(60,320 posts)
9. tRump famously said "We love the poorly educated". Sorry, but they tend to lack critical thinking
Mon Oct 7, 2024, 02:57 PM
Oct 2024

Education does help, and the degree, be it Lit, Nurse, STEM, Philo, History, doesn't matter. It's the ability to organize thought and to not engage in magical thinking. Who'da thunk?
 

JohnSJ

(98,883 posts)
3. I would like to think so, especially from the Haley voters, and never trumpetr republicans.
Mon Oct 7, 2024, 12:36 PM
Oct 2024

epreic01

(262 posts)
5. Based on my surroundings
Mon Oct 7, 2024, 02:15 PM
Oct 2024

There’s a handful of people I know that voted for Gary Johnson in 2016 and Biden in 2020. And all of them are voting for Kamala. The tariffs thing sticks out as their number one issue.
I think moving forward everything needs to be about Abortion and the Economy. Keep the base fired up and our eye on the prize and then bring over people that only vote R bc of the GOP economy. Dems really need to reclaim the economy as being our issue. Economy and Freedom, Freedom and Economy. And everything else we can bring it into a discussion about the Economy. The War in Ukraine. To maintain peace in Europe which keeps the World Economy stable.

BaronChocula

(4,763 posts)
7. I'm shocked at the enthusiasm
Mon Oct 7, 2024, 02:35 PM
Oct 2024

"The bottom line is that Kamala Harris, amongst this group is doing ridiculously, ridiculously well."

No caveats, no buts, no mitigating factors (well until the very end).

RobinA

(10,478 posts)
8. I Am Too
Mon Oct 7, 2024, 02:37 PM
Oct 2024

because here in PA it appears to be a dead heat, as in several other swing states. I'm not feeling well AT ALL.

Fla Dem

(27,778 posts)
10. But, but those "Traditionally Republican Voters" have to be in the "Swing States".
Mon Oct 7, 2024, 03:08 PM
Oct 2024

No matter how many of those of those traditionally Republican voters, vote for Harris, won't mean a thing unless they flip a Swing State.

mucholderthandirt

(1,791 posts)
15. Yes. He doesn't know his ass from his elbow. Even if he reports good polls, he has something to put Harris down.
Mon Oct 7, 2024, 09:56 PM
Oct 2024

mucholderthandirt

(1,791 posts)
14. Oh, look. It's Goofy Gollum. Did he bounce around and then tack on something bad about Harris? Like usual?
Mon Oct 7, 2024, 09:55 PM
Oct 2024

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