lonetrucker4 said:Just give me the book info, pretty sure I've read it. 😉
There's zero proof in the States that this "Shy torry" thing is a permanent fixture. It pops up once in a while, like everywhere else (like in the UK where the term actually came from back in the '90s and then again in 2015), but other times? Nothing. People went nuts talking about it after the 2014 presidential elections when the results totally tanked every single poll from the week before. But during the 2015 Congressional elections, nothing really shifted.
Even if that factor is real, the more education people get, the more they lean Democratic and ditch the Republican Party.
Just give me the book info, pretty sure I've read it. 😉
There's zero proof in the States that this "Shy torry" thing is a permanent fixture. It pops up once in a while, like everywhere else (like in the UK where the term actually came from back in the '90s and then again in 2015), but other times? Nothing. People went nuts talking about it after the 2014 presidential elections when the results totally tanked every single poll from the week before. But during the 2015 Congressional elections, nothing really shifted.
Even if that factor is real, the more education people get, the more they lean Democratic and ditch the Republican Party.
Don't have the book on me right now, but I'll find that study on the Green Party once I dig through my stuff. 😉
Mark Harris66 said:Just give me the book info, pretty sure I've read it. 😉
There's zero proof in the States that this "Shy torry" thing is a permanent fixture. It pops up once in a while, like everywhere else (like in the UK where the term actually came from back in the '90s and then again in 2015), but other times? Nothing. People went nuts talking about it after the 2014 presidential elections when the results totally tanked every single poll from the week before. But during the 2015 Congressional elections, nothing really shifted.
Even if that factor is real, the more education people get, the more they lean Democratic and ditch the Republican Party.
You can't actually prove that educated voters lean toward the Democratic Party while others favor the Republicans. Voting is private, after all. Honestly, maybe the "educated" ones are the very people staying home—I personally know plenty who either skip the polls entirely or always vote for some third-party option. I don't buy the polls... The only way I'd believe those stats is if we could actually see exactly how every single person voted and had data built directly from that.
You can't actually prove that educated voters lean toward the Democratic Party while others favor the Republicans. Voting is private, after all. Honestly, maybe the "educated" ones are the very people staying home—I personally know plenty who either skip the polls entirely or always vote for some third-party option. I don't buy the polls... The only way I'd believe those stats is if we could actually see exactly how every single person voted and had data built directly from that.
You can't actually prove that educated voters lean toward the Democratic Party while others favor the Republicans. Voting is private, after all. Honestly, maybe the "educated" ones are the very people staying home—I personally know plenty who either skip the polls entirely or always vote for some third-party option. I don't buy the polls... The only way I'd believe those stats is if we could actually see exactly how every single person voted and had data built directly from that.
You can't actually prove that educated voters lean toward the Democratic Party while others favor the Republicans. Voting is private, after all. Honestly, maybe the "educated" ones are the very people staying home—I personally know plenty who either skip the polls entirely or always vote for some third-party option. I don't buy the polls... The only way I'd believe those stats is if we could actually see exactly how every single person voted and had data built directly from that.
You can't actually prove that educated voters lean toward the Democratic Party while others favor the Republicans. Voting is private, after all. Honestly, maybe the "educated" ones are the very people staying home—I personally know plenty who either skip the polls entirely or always vote for some third-party option. I don't buy the polls... The only way I'd believe those stats is if we could actually see exactly how every single person voted and had data built directly from that.
You can't actually prove that educated voters lean toward the Democratic Party while others favor the Republicans. Voting is private, after all. Honestly, maybe the "educated" ones are the very people staying home—I personally know plenty who either skip the polls entirely or always vote for some third-party option. I don't buy the polls... The only way I'd believe those stats is if we could actually see exactly how every single person voted and had data built directly from that.
You can't actually prove that educated voters lean toward the Democratic Party while others favor the Republicans. Voting is private, after all. Honestly, maybe the "educated" ones are the very people staying home—I personally know plenty who either skip the polls entirely or always vote for some third-party option. I don't buy the polls... The only way I'd believe those stats is if we could actually see exactly how every single person voted and had data built directly from that.
I mean, I trust polls to a certain point, sure, even with the margins of error, but I gotta hand it to them—they actually called the election results pretty well. 🙏