White educated voters leaving the GOP

(Reuters) - Older, white, educated voters helped Donald Trump win the White House in 2016. Now, they are trending toward Democrats in such numbers that their ballots could tip the scales in tight congressional races from New Jersey to California, a new Reuters/Ipsos poll and a data analysis of competitive districts shows.

Nationwide, whites over the age of 60 with college degrees now favor Democrats over Republicans for Congress by a 2-point margin, according to Reuters/Ipsos opinion polling during the first three months of the year. During the same period in 2016, that same group favored Republicans for Congress by 10 percentage points. (Graphic: https://tmsnrt.rs/2H39Tur)

The 12-point swing is one of the largest shifts in support toward Democrats that the Reuters/Ipsos poll has measured over the past two years. If that trend continues, Republicans will struggle to keep control of the House of Representatives, and possibly the Senate, in the November elections, potentially dooming President Donald Trump's legislative agenda.

“The real core for the Republicans is white, older white, and if they’re losing ground there, they’re going to have a tsunami,” said Larry Sabato, a University of Virginia political scientist who closely tracks political races. “If that continues to November, they’re toast.”

Asked about the swing, Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel cited robust fund-raising and said the party would field strong campaigns in battleground states. "We are not taking a single vote for granted,” she said in a statement.

John Camm has been a Republican since the Nixon Administration, but the 63-year-old Tucson accountant says he will likely support a Democrat for Congress in November. He is splitting with his party over access to health insurance as well as its recent overhaul of the nation's income tax system. He also supports gun control measures that the party has rejected.

"I'm a moderate Republican, and yet my party has run away from that," Camm said. "So give me a moderate Democrat."

Camm is not alone in his worries about healthcare. The number of educated older adults choosing "healthcare" in the Reuters/Ipsos poll as their top issue nearly tripled over the past two years, from 8 percent to 21 percent. The poll did not ask respondents precisely what their concerns about healthcare were.

The GOP is fucked, and they know it

It's just payback for them hitching their wagon to Trumps's ass, so when they go down in flames come November, I'm going to open a cork on a nice bottle of champagne, stick a bud in my best pipe, put my feet up and toast to the death of the GOP.

The future of the Democratic Party is young people, the educated, and people of color

The gop will rely on uneducated whites, and there is no future in that

I always thought the educated voters were never for him to begin with? But if you listen to any of those polls just remember how right they were with the election. As people age they tend to vote more conservatively anyways as they grow up and learn.

Serious Weeds said:

I always thought the educated voters were never for him to begin with? But if you listen to any of those polls just remember how right they were with the election. As people age they tend to vote more conservatively anyways as they grow up and learn.

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They're learning for sure, learning that you can't elect people that hate government to govern.

The gop's base is fox's demographic, plus the nazi's and racists's that don't watch any news. Fox is quickly losing its base due to their age. The median fox news viewer is in their 60's I think. They haven't had a lot of success attracting a younger audience, even the conservatives in younger age groups. MSNBC has passed their lineup in viewership and it won't be flipping back.

They really are just angry old folks yelling from their windows at imagined offenses.

I doubt the old white men in the gop see an issue though. Trump doesn't. He just sees a large audience when he makes a rally. Of course, most of those people are there for the theater, not the message.

Let em be blindsided. It will make the victory sweeter.

Serious Weeds said:

I always thought the educated voters were never for him to begin with? But if you listen to any of those polls just remember how right they were with the election. As people age they tend to vote more conservatively anyways as they grow up and learn.

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The polls said Hillary by 2-3. So is your point that the polls were right?

Serious Weeds said:

I always thought the educated voters were never for him to begin with? But if you listen to any of those polls just remember how right they were with the election. As people age they tend to vote more conservatively anyways as they grow up and learn.

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That's not true. Around the age of 18, peoples views tend to stick with them throughout the rest of their life.

i won't be forgiving anyone for voting for turmp. fuck them. they can vote dem if they want. if they want forgiveness they can ask they fake god for it... one thing this election proved to me is we have a shit load of fake white evangelicals. fuck morons who shit on their own beliefs and think they can solicit men for their souls. LOL, suck my dick !!!!!!!!!!