MOST voters in ALL elections are NOT college graduates. The latest stats from the Census Bureau showed that even in 2014 only 30% of voters were college graduates. There is more going on with Trumps populatity than education itself. It DOES stand to reason, however, that people with less education have been hurt more by what happened in the last 10-20 years than those with a higher degree of education and that along with the general dissatisfaction with Congress and the political process itself have people turning to anyone who looks like the great saviour (althogh he is anything but). 

http://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publications/2015/demo/p20-577.pdf

 

Goose wrote:

I think that the supporters of Trump are a group of people who are giving a collective middle finger to the political establishment.

I can't blame them for that. But, this illustrates that acting in anger does not lead to the wisest decisions.
They will wake up some morning an be appalled to see who they are in bed with.

Then it will be on to the next one.

 
Yeah, York learned that from Scott Wagner.
 

florentine wrote:

I have my own feelings about Trump, but I can see why people like him.   Politicians have gotten so phoney, so groomed, so prepared.  They will not answer a direct question always talking in circles and saying nothing.  They side-step, distract, cloud the issue and-spin.  With Trump, you know what you're getting.  He will tell someone they are a LOSER!  They are an IDIOT!.  They are a TERRIBLE PERSON WHO CAN"T DO ANYTHING RIGHT!.  I hate to admit it, but it's kind of refreshing.

Trump gets a lot of support for just those reasons. He will state things with certainty. He will call out the politician who won't give a straight answer.

But, in this, I see the seeds of Trump's undoing.
Some of his brash statements turn out to be contrary to fact. Just because you utter something with confidence does not mean that you are right. That will catch up with him.

But the major problem with Trump is that he won't be content to call out the phony, or indecisive.
No, Donald will eventually apply the "loser", and "idiot" labels to anybody he disagrees with. We are a diverse country. I have different priotities than the farmer in Iowa, or the Tech guy in Silicon valley, or the retired person in Florida. It doesn't make one of us right, and the rest losers. Governing means getting those people to work together whenever possible, not in "calling them out". Building coalitions is hard work. I don't see the depth, or tolerance in Trump to do that. An effective leader - as opposed to a TV hero - reserves "calling out" for specific situations. He doesn't lead with that in every circumstance.

Sorry to preach. I am sure that you already know this.
 

flowergirl wrote:

Trump's supporters have found someone who agrees with their distorted views of how things are or ought to be, irrespective of how intolerable his and their views are.  Trump will always be a brash, loud-mouthed, boor, forever seeking out ways to substain his out-of-control ego which sustains his life.  In fact that's all he really has going for him.  Flaunting his wealth is part of his game. 

It's funny watching his supporters reveling in the fact that Trump flaunts his wealth. They say it's great, and means that Trump is "a success story".

That's fine, but I get the feeling that these same people were Freaking out a year ago about how much Bill and Hillary made in speaking fees.
I guess that's different.
 

I keep thinking to myself, 'What if there was a Trump on the left running for President?'

I don't mean I would want a liberal Donald Trump running, but instead an outsider who is a fresh face with a fresh perspective to the Dem side of the race. I still would love to see Alan Mullaley, the former CEO of Ford take a run (there was a Draft Mullaley movement briefly in 2012)

As someone who finds zero appeal to Hillary, or O'Malley, and who just doesn't think Sanders can take it to the finish line, I'd really like to see someone who isn't part of the Democratic political establishment jump in.

So as we progress through the summer of Trump, I guess if I look at it from a GOP voters perspective, I can see where he's a breath of fresh, albeit loud, fresh air.

I watched a bit of the GOP voter forum on CSPAN last night. Every single one of those candidates just brought the simple, often repeated, canned conservative responses. America is in decline. Reagan was awesome. Obamacare is horrible. Blah. Blah. Blah. 

I'm not saying every candidate should be provocative like Trump. But they could take a shot a being substantive.