More on today's Wash Post-ABC poll. A friend notes that Obama is +9 in the poll among white college graduates. Said friend believes:
[College-educated whites] will be a disproportionate percentage of voters. This is the other way to win. He's actually losing white working-class voters in the poll by the exact percentage that Kerry lost them -- 17%.
But Kerry lost white college grads to Bush -- broke even overall,
including people-of-color grads, but lost white college grads. If Obama wins them -- especially in Colorado and Virginia, the two states with the largest percentage of college grads in the country -- he will still win the election.
Meanwhile, over at the Plank, the always interesting Alan Wolfe sketched out some potential policy implications of this political divide that are worth mulling for down the road:
For one thing, a divide such as this suggests that Democrats will continue to expand access to higher education while Republicans will oppose it. Here one must note the arguments of the conservative writer Charles Murray who, long before this particular poll was published, began arguing that they are too many college educated people in America. This makes little sense in economic terms in a knowledge-based world, but if you like Republicans in power, it makes a great deal of sense in political terms.
Click through and read it. There's more.
