In trying to explain Donald Trump’s stunning victory last week, observers have offered numerous explanations. … One way of testing various explanations against one another is to examine county-level vote returns, where contextual information — education levels, racial composition and so forth — can help sort out statistically which factors […] Read more »
The education gap among whites this year wasn’t about education. It was about race.
Election swings are usually pretty uniform. States tend to shift together from one presidential election year to the next. Most demographic groups do as well. But there was one glaring exception this year: College-educated voters became a lot more Democratic and non-college educated voters became a lot more Republican. … […] Read more »
How what degree you have predicts how you vote, in 1 startling chart
In the wake of the stunning victory by Donald Trump six days ago, there’s a search on to better understand the American electorate that produced this most unorthodox of president-elects. Race has been at the forefront of that conversation — and for good reason. … But education level also provides a […] Read more »
Science: Public interest high, literacy stable
While public interest in science continues to grow, the level of U.S. scientific literacy remains largely unchanged, according to a survey by the University of Michigan Institute for Social Research. Funded by NASA, the study found that 51 percent of Americans are interested in science, but only 28 percent have […] Read more »
Americans’ Knowledge of the Branches of Government Is Declining
Only a quarter of Americans can name all three branches of government, the poorest showing on that question in a half-dozen years, a new survey on civic knowledge has found. Nearly a third of Americans cannot name any of the three branches of government, according to the survey conducted by […] Read more »
Trump Beats Clinton Among Least-Educated Whites in Bloomberg Poll
Donald Trump is decisively winning white voters who don’t have more than a high-school education, but his stubborn unpopularity with minorities has given Hillary Clinton a narrow overall lead with America’s least-educated voters. Those findings from the latest Purple Slice online poll for Bloomberg Politics highlight two of the biggest […] Read more »