my splicetoday column this week will be about this kind of analysis: highly-educated white women will be the decisive swing vote. the first thing to say is that we are more obsessed with race and gender and class, and more divided by them, than we were in the 19th century. the second thing to say is that well-educated white women - if indeed in any sense that is a group of people - are no more decisive than any similarly-sized demographic, for example right-handed people with bad taste or something. believe it or not, i say that point is obvious and provable.
p.s. the rather new fashion for focusing on education levels is just a sneaky way to express class. i think most pollsters and consultants have spent the whole cycle congratulating themselves on being 'highly-educated.' i think hillary supporters have been congratulating themselves throughout the same way. i think the mushass, imaginationless leftists of america has been congratulating themselves all day for decades on their level of eduction/indoctrination. but that lame-ass shit doesn't make you smart or good, though, does it? it just channels your thinking down the same old narrow canals. political positions correlate with education levels because much of american education consists of leftist indoctrination, every hour of every day. this is a central fact of american higher ed. the faculty is unanimous; they all say the same sentences in the same order, because they are highly-educated. but it starts in pre-k.
startlingly, the guardian is much more reflective on this than the nytimes,
