Educated Voters Quotes

• I have realized why corrupt politicians do nothing to improve the quality of public school education. They are terrified of educated voters.

  Miriam

  School, Quality, Voters

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• Writing recently in the New York Times, David Brooks noted correctly if belatedly that conservatives disdain for liberal intellectuals had slipped into disdain for the educated class as a whole, and worried that the Republican Party was alienating educated voters. I couldn't care less about the future of the Republican Party, but I do care about the quality of political thinking and judgment in the country as a whole.

  Mark Lilla

  Country, New York, Party

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• [Donald] Trump's path to victory depends on getting historic levels of support from white voters, and particularly large numbers of white, non-college-educated voters.

  Mara Liasson

  College, White, Numbers

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• White voters were 72 percent of the electorate in 2012, and their share of the population has shrunk a couple points since then. [Donald] Trump has had trouble winning certain segments of the white vote, such as suburban women and college-educated voters.

  Mara Liasson

  Couple, Winning, College

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• This year [2016], however, polls show [Hillary] Clinton winning white college-educated voters by double digits.

  Mara Liasson

  Winning, College, Years

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