Educated Whites Far Less Likely to Vote Republican

[calamity]

Ah, now I know why the Trump admin is making it harder for poor whites to attend college.

in new NBC/WSJ poll, education effect among white voters is powerful

college degree moves white men to +4 D (from +42 R without degree)

college degree moves white women to +33 D (from +8 R without degree)

https://twitter.com/JohnJHarwood/status/1054008106513059840

The war on poor students:

Under Secretary Betsy DeVos, the U.S. Department of Education has loosened restrictions on for-profit colleges, which have higher-than-average default rates, and has tried to limit the ability of states to regulate federal loans. The department has even worked to side-step oversight of federal loans by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, a move that helped force the resignation of CFPB student loan ombudsman Seth Frotman in August 2018.

GOP lawmakers have successfully enacted more concrete changes, too. Among them: a tax bill that ended the tuition deduction for students who itemize their tax returns (though the bill did uphold the American Opportunity Tax Credit).

The fate of several other potential changes is still up in the air...

The Bottom Line:
The mid-term elections are bound to have big implications for any number of policy items. Student loans are no exception. If the GOP is able to retain control of both houses of Congress, it has a much better chance of ushering in changes that will simplify loan options, but also reduce the government’s role in financing college.



Read more: 4 Ways Trump, GOP Trying to Change Student Loans | Investopedia https://www.investopedia.com/person...op-trying-change-student-loans/#ixzz5Ua6dpfmt

 

[GDViking]

Ah, now I know why the Trump admin is making it harder for poor whites to attend college.



The war on poor students:

This is why trump opened a fake university, just another attempt to keep people uneducated and I'll informed.

Another example is all the news is fake news, except the actual fake news.

The less informed the further right you stand.

 

[bearpoker]

Ah, now I know why the Trump admin is making it harder for poor whites to attend college.



The war on poor students:

Trump loves the poorly educated so he wants to make more of them.

 

[Jetboogieman]

This is why trump opened a fake university, just another attempt to keep people uneducated and I'll informed.

That's not quite true.

Trump opened a fake university to defraud average working people.

You know the people him and his sycophants insist he's on the side of...

 

[Superfly]

That's not quite true.

Trump opened a fake university to defraud average working people.

You know the people him and his sycophants insist he's on the side of...

Oh, you mean those who are losing jobs because of the steel tariffs? Or could it be the working poor who are losing their safety nets, because #MAGA!!

 

[Skeptic Bob]

This is why trump opened a fake university, just another attempt to keep people uneducated and I'll informed.

Another example is all the news is fake news, except the actual fake news.

The less informed the further right you stand.

You give Trump too much credit. He started a fake university for one reason only: to scam naive people out of their money.

 

[TheParser]

RE: the thread title



Many people who have NOT attended the university are more "educated" in the real sense of that word than many people who have degrees by the carload.

 

[Grokmaster]

Ah, now I know why the Trump admin is making it harder for poor whites to attend college.



The war on poor students:

Depends on the degree.


Engineers, MDs, MBAs, are far more likely to vote GOP.

Sociologists, psychologists and English majors are far more likely to vote DNC.

 

[holbritter]

Ah, now I know why the Trump admin is making it harder for poor whites to attend college.



The war on poor students:

Really depends on what you think poor is. Most poor students go to school for free. It's the middle class that make too much for financial aid, but not enough to afford it without loans. To avoid a mountain of debt, you need to be poor.....or rich.

 

[Grokmaster]

Oh, you mean those who are losing jobs because of the steel tariffs? Or could it be the working poor who are losing their safety nets, because #MAGA!!

More like the lowest unemployment rate in decades, the booming economy ,and wages rising at the fastest pace since BEFORE OBAMA tried to kill the economy.

 

[holbritter]

Ah, now I know why the Trump admin is making it harder for poor whites to attend college.



The war on poor students:

That tuition deduction, which capped out at I believe $2500, was more for parents. Most full time students don't work enough to have to pay taxes.

 

[SheWolf]

Really depends on what you think poor is. Most poor students go to school for free. It's the middle class that make too much for financial aid, but not enough to afford it without loans. To avoid a mountain of debt, you need to be poor.....or rich.

I graduated college recently and knew all kinds of students. I don't think anybody goes to school for free or 100% funded Pell Grants. Unless they have some special circumstance, and the college gives a special scholarship, but I never heard of that personally. I do know that many high school valedictorians get nearly a free college eduation in my area, but that is not based on their income.

 

[calamity]

That tuition deduction, which capped out at I believe $2500, was more for parents. Most full time students don't work enough to have to pay taxes.

Student loans take 20 years to pay off. Of course it affects students. Sheesh.

 

[calamity]

Really depends on what you think poor is. Most poor students go to school for free. It's the middle class that make too much for financial aid, but not enough to afford it without loans. To avoid a mountain of debt, you need to be poor.....or rich.

From where do you get this nonsense?

 

[Hawkeye10]

It comes as no shock to me that failed University brain molded whites vote Left....after all that is what they have been programmed to do by their manipulators.

 

[calamity]

It comes as no shock to me that failed University brain molded whites vote Left....after all that is what they have been programmed to do by their manipulators.

Educated people are less gullible, and therefore are not likely to fall for a con man's lies.

 

[trixare4kids]

Educated people are less gullible, and therefore are not likely to fall for a con man's lies.

Such delicious irony...

 

[Hawkeye10]

Educated people are less gullible, and therefore are not likely to fall for a con man's lies.

Trumpity-Trump-Trump Trump....

The University was well on its way to failing back when I was there mid 80's.






"NEXT!"

 

[holbritter]

I graduated college recently and knew all kinds of students. I don't think anybody goes to school for free or 100% funded Pell Grants. Unless they have some special circumstance, and the college gives a special scholarship, but I never heard of that personally. I do know that many high school valedictorians get nearly a free college eduation in my area, but that is not based on their income.

The college I worked at had a big staff for the financial aid office. Poor people can go for free. Even have their books paid for and get some extra money. Very common in NY

 

[holbritter]

Student loans take 20 years to pay off. Of course it affects students. Sheesh.

You can only take the tuition deduction on your taxes while you are in school or paying tuition. Duh.

 

[holbritter]

From where do you get this nonsense?

Holy crap people! Go to FAFSA website. I went through 2 years of college on financial aid because of our families low income.

 

[ataraxia]

Depends on the degree.


Engineers, MDs, MBAs, are far more likely to vote GOP.

Sociologists, psychologists and English majors are far more likely to vote DNC.

Actually many MDs now stand behind some form of universal healthcare system. More of them voted for Clinton this last election than for Trump:
Medscape: Medscape Access

Similarly, most scientists overwhelmingly vote Democrat:
https://slate.com/technology/2010/1...s-country-are-democrats-that-s-a-problem.html
(I guess they can stomach only so much of being told that the Earth is only 6000 years old and the unanimous consensus of every single of their organizations on global warming is wrong).

 

[ataraxia]

It comes as no shock to me that failed University brain molded whites vote Left....after all that is what they have been programmed to do by their manipulators.

Could it be that anyone who took any science classes beyond middle school will have a tough time voting for a party which thinks the Earth is only 6000 years old and the unanimous consensus of every single science organization on the planet is wrong, and only a Manhattan real estate huckster was smart enough to see it?

 

[calamity]

You can only take the tuition deduction on your taxes while you are in school or paying tuition. Duh.

Interest on the loans were deductible up until the recent changes.

 

[Hawkeye10]

Could it be that anyone who took any science classes beyond middle school will have a tough time voting for a party which thinks the Earth is only 6000 years old and the unanimous consensus of every single science organization on the planet is wrong, and only a Manhattan real estate huckster was smart enough to see it?

No...