He then ends up suggesting the reason they don’t like Harris is because she’s a woman -
“Because part of it makes me think – and I’m speaking to men directly – part of it makes me think that, well, you just aren’t feeling the idea of having a woman as president, and you’re coming up with other alternatives and other reasons for that.”
Here’s just one source but it shows the Dems’ lead over the GOP declining among white college grads between 2016 and 2020. But the Dems’ lead over the GOP among all college grads, of any race, increased between those elections.
Sure that’s only one source. Maybe there are polls supporting what you say, I dunno. I could be totally wrong with what I’m saying.
Thanks for sharing that source. While it shows a small decline in the Democrats’ lead among white college graduates, this is largely a blip compared to broader and longitudinal trends if you extend this further and bring it current. The rise of affluent, college-educated white voters in the Democratic base is well-documented, including in the sources I originally mentioned as well as Brookings, Politico, and Pew itself. This slight decline reflects specific dynamics in the 2020 election, such as a shift in voter focus toward economic issues and populist appeals. Overall, affluent, educated, and suburban whites continue to strengthen their role in the party, confirming the growing influence of white affluence in the Democratic coalition.
It’s strange to me that this fact is so upsetting to people. It’s not necessarily a bad thing, but it is a well-documented change emerging in the demographic base of democratic support.
Edit: look at non-college-graduate Hispanic support even in this small snapshot. It’s pretty wild, and it’s something democrats will have to contend with eventually. Ideally once Trump is out of the picture.
Fair enough, I guess there’s more than what I know, which is not much.
Hey, all else aside, I really appreciate you for constructively adding to the conversation and being so humble. In a post that took me a while to research and write that seemingly induced a lot of denialist-downvotes, it is refreshing to at least see someone willing to listen and think about it.
Well I’m just saying there’s certainly a lot of statistics I haven’t seen.
Also in the Pew polling I linked to, it shows the Democrat lead among black college grads increasing between the 2018 mid-terms and 2020. It’s only a 1 point difference but at least it hasn’t gone backwards.
Maybe the Dems are doing better with more educated voters, but not necessarily white ones. I dunno. I guess for these matters a person would have to see lots of data points to really understand the trends going on.
College graduates, white people, and affluent people are three methods of categorizing people. One can be one, two, or all three of the categories. When looking at overall trends, we wouldn’t tend to only examine a two year period two years ago. Instead, if we’re looking for trend protections, we’d want to look at a longer and, preferably, up-to-current set of data points, e.g., 2014-2024.
Examining a smaller set can be misleading. For example, if you look at rates of suicide since 1980 in the United States, they trend is very much upward. But if you only look at 1998 and then 1999, it would appear to be “trending down.” That would miss entirely the dramatic increase seen by looking at a larger timescale that runs to the near-present.
Do you have any specific links that show this data? I’m just wondering really. I wonder what the trends with non-white college grads are.
Here are a few to get you started. I imagine you have some basic Python scripting skills, so you can start scraping data and aggregating the data into your own script.
You could also then pull the raw data from multiple polling aggregators in addition to the above and place them into your datasets in your script. That’s what I do. That would allow you a lot more flexibility in terms of running analytics, so that would be my suggestion.
https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2024/04/09/the-changing-demographic-composition-of-voters-and-party-coalitions/
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-politics/article/bridging-the-blue-divide-the-democrats-new-metro-coalition-and-the-unexpected-prominence-of-redistribution/3FD0D61D57DB06630D9046DC9348159D
https://www.dataforprogress.org/blog/2021/4/9/democratic-party-suburban-shift
https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2023/07/12/voting-patterns-in-the-2022-elections/
https://manhattan.institute/article/the-rise-of-college-educated-democrats
https://centerforpolitics.org/crystalball/articles/the-transformation-of-the-american-electorate/
https://jacobin.com/2023/09/democratic-party-rich-white-voters-2024
https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2024/06/growing-rural-urban-divide-exists-only-among-white-americans
Every one of those links gives me 404: not found… do they work for you? I am in the UK but that shouldn’t be a problem because I can normally access stuff from Pew, NYT, and WaPo.