r/politics Foreign Dec 13 '17

Black voters just saved America from Roy Moore

https://thinkprogress.org/back-vote-alabama-jones-8da18c1d8d7a/
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u/[deleted] Dec 13 '17 edited Mar 21 '18

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u/[deleted] Dec 13 '17

Both of my parents are educated with degrees and votes conservative, buddy.

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u/SUMitchell Dec 13 '17

Thats because they are stuck in the past.

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u/[deleted] Dec 13 '17

Hahahaha! They are actually pretty moderate, they just hate tax increases. What's stuck in the past about that?

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u/[deleted] Dec 13 '17 edited Mar 21 '18

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u/[deleted] Dec 13 '17

When in comes to local elections republicans aren't pushing for an increase in property taxes to pay for chit projects, city bonds, etc. Many of of those initiatives states that funds can be used for other projects. Dems push for those things. And yes my parents are home owners.

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u/SUMitchell Dec 13 '17

So they are willing to forgo civil rights and basic decency and morals because of that one issue? That's reasonable.

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u/[deleted] Dec 13 '17

Over dramatic much? You know full and well that minorities have the right don't vote. Don't kid yourself here.

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u/[deleted] Dec 13 '17

education =/= american liberalism

look at how many college-educated white alabamans voted moore

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u/Jonko18 Dec 13 '17

How many? And how many voted Moore versus Jones?

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u/Neokarasu Dec 13 '17

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2017/politics/alabama-exit-polls/?utm_term=.2bb67b7ea6c9

Moore won among white college graduate women

Exit poll results showed Moore faring worse among white voters than Republicans in previous Alabama elections, but he maintained a lead among both white men and women and those with and without college degrees.

In Alabama, Moore held a small edge among white women with college degrees and a roughly 25-point lead among white men with college degrees.

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u/Jonko18 Dec 13 '17

Hey, thanks for providing a link!

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u/[deleted] Dec 13 '17

do your own research lol

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u/Jonko18 Dec 13 '17

I'm not the one making the claims here, you are.

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u/[deleted] Dec 13 '17

they aren't claims, they're facts. google is right there, use it yourself instead of asking someone else to do it for you

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u/Jonko18 Dec 13 '17

Don't worry, someone else already did your work for you.

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u/Jonko18 Dec 13 '17

If we ignore race, Jones got 54% of the college educated vote, while Moore got 52% of the non-college educated vote. This does imply that having a college education makes one more likely to vote Democrat. Also reinforcing that idea is while Moore did get the majority of college educated whites, it was a much all smaller margin than he had over non-college educated whites. Again, showing having a college education makes one more likely to vote Democrat.

All your statistic shows is that being white makes one more likely to vote Republican. Which is obvious in Alabama anyway.

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u/[deleted] Dec 13 '17 edited Dec 13 '17

54% is not a strong number...and I said education does not equate to liberalism. I never said anything about education not leaning towards liberalism

you got way too wrapped up in this lol