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ProudNewEnglander's avatar

Mark, you know I have great respect for your ability to predict elections.

However, I really wish you wouldn't call college-educated voters the "managerial class". Most of them are not managers (and there are plenty of managers who don't have a college degree). These people are doctors/nurses, lawyers, teachers/professors, accountants, scientists, engineers, tech workers, even finance people. I know plenty of these people, and many of them actively dislike the person whose job it is to manage them.

That being said, I agree that the trading of coalitions hasn't been great for us. If the trade was just college-educated voters for the WWC, that would've been fine, but when the Hispanic and Asian working class moves to right as well, that's a big problem for us.

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Mark's avatar

What term would be better? I used to say "college boys" but I thought was more reductive and insulting.

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sacman701's avatar

Also our base has more college girls than college boys.

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ProudNewEnglander's avatar

How about just "college-educated voters"? Or is that too cumbersome?

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Jonathan's avatar

pretty simple imo

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bpfish's avatar

There seems to be an itch of disparagement that "college-educated voters" just won't scratch.

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Wolfpack Dem's avatar

Is it that college folks are the "target" - or is it more "the group who is willing to listen?"

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