The Value Of An Education?

Forty percent of adult Americans have a college degree.  It's inarguable that a college education provides some advantage in life and work, and increases potential lifetime earnings.  (Buster Jr., if you're reading this, please get yourself into the 40% with all deliberate speed.)

A couple days ago, CNN released its most recent poll results showing fear-mongering carnival barker Donald Trump had a substantial lead among Republican and Republican-leaning voters.  It's still early, but . . . eeew, gross!  

Ass-hat in a hat

A deeper dig into the numbers reveals the value of an education, or rather, what can result from the lack of one.  In the same poll, respondents with no college strongly prefer the Trumpster to all the others in the GOP clown car.  He gets the nod from 46% of no-college R's, with Ted Cruz a distant 2nd with just 12%.  The less the education, the lower the income, the more they like the racist bigot billionaire.  So there you go.

To further illustrate the point, now let's look at the preferences of the Republican college grads.  CNN found that, among those with a college degree, it was Cruz with 22%, Ben Carson and Marco Rubio tied with 19%, and Trump with 18%.  So there you . . .  Wha'?  Wait a second!  That's four turds in the same punch bowl!  And the college-educated R's still like 'em all about the same!?  Damn!

I guess that shoots the "value of education" theory right in the ass.  ;)

Seriously, it's too early to take this seriously.  Opinion polls at this stage are notoriously inaccurate, and I'm in the Nate Silver* camp -- the flaw in most of these polls is small sample size.  The pollster swears it's a representative sample, but it's probably not.  This latest CNN poll was lead-story, headline stuff this week, and it was based on a survey of just 445 random registered voters.  For a supposed national poll, that's not much.

But good polling or straight GIGO, it certainly seems like Republicans are in a headlong rush to nominate the biggest dickweed possible.
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*If you don't know who Nate Silver is, you should.  Your assignment is to do an immediate Google search.