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Clinton is beating Obama with uneducated white voters but McCain is beating Clinton with Uneducated white voters
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Clinton's strength, uneducated white voters, is even a bigger strength for McCain.

Clinton is winning the uneducated white vote but the indications are that in the general the uneducated white voters will go with McCain

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By ihaveavoice May 14th 2008 at 12:20 am EDT
and McCain is just beating Obama across the board.
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By Donia19 May 14th 2008 at 12:22 am EDT
So sad, education is not a top priority in this country.
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By Mary Johnson May 14th 2008 at 12:26 am EDT
Actually, Obama and Clinton are both beating McCain by almost identical margins in head to head polling right now. The difference is miniscule....two tenths of a percent on Real Clear Politics average of all the polls right now. The only one in which McCain is beating either Obama or Clinton is the USA Today Gallup Poll in which he beats Clinton by three points and Obama by one. The dates of the polls are from 4/30 through 5/12, so very recent.
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By 57 year old independent white male May 14th 2008 at 12:38 am EDT
If we could educate the uneducated white voters they will not vote Republican in November.
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By illinoismel May 14th 2008 at 12:53 am EDT
"If we could educate the uneducated white voters they will not vote Republican in November."

Are you saying it will be uneducated white voters that will defeat Democrats in November? Boy oh boy, what planet are you on?
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By Democrat in Santa Cruz, CA May 14th 2008 at 1:39 am EDT
I have met professors who cannot find jobs when they are laid off, computer programmers living in cars after the silicon valley became a ghost town. No certified peice of paper is worth the dirt that my grandfather grew all of his food within. Humankind once knew how to gather and hunt. Now, clickety, click, clickety, click...
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By 57 year old independent white male May 14th 2008 at 12:24 am EDT
Not true

most polls are showing both Obama and Clinton beating McCain.

If the Clinton supporters unite behind Obama it will make him amuch stronger candidate in November
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By Woman at Large May 14th 2008 at 12:54 am EDT
not gonna happen.
  
I am an educated Hillary supporter
By Democrat in Goshen, IN May 14th 2008 at 12:41 am EDT
I have a B.A. with a concentration in Social Work and I am working on a M.S. in Education. I proudly stand up for Senator Hillary Clinton and don't appreciated be characterized as "uneducated white voter".

Let the states vote and the remaining superdelegates need to remain quiet until all the voting results (including Florida and Michigan results) are totalled.

Cynthia
Re: I am an educated Hillary supporter
By jb1985 May 14th 2008 at 12:46 am EDT
So great to hear from another educated HIllary supporter...
Usually I seem to be the only one to speak up not that we don;t have a bunch of educated Hillary supporters...
Where in the world they get that nonsense from I will never know..
I am a lot older than you but am a semi-retired professional and know too many others with even more advanced degrees than mine that are for Hillary.....
Go figure...it is pure nonsense!!!
Re: I am an educated Hillary supporter
By Democrat in Santa Cruz, CA May 14th 2008 at 1:46 am EDT
I graduated with honors from the junior college 3.75 Liberal Arts, joined the armed forces to pay for college, got injured right before we went to the gulf war, had 4 bone surgeries and graduated cum laude in Philosophy. I thought about a masters and recalled one of my teachers calling it the More Shit Certification and the PhD is Piled Higher and Deeper. I turned down National Security Clearance for Satellite Weapons Targing in 1997, was invited to be an Honary Scientist with Retired Nuclear Engineer, Retired Lockheed Programmer, Retired Star Gate founders.

I support Hillary Clinton because I learned durnig those years that President Clinton had released over 60,000 top secret documents from the Star Gate Program, based in the Pentagon which had over 3 billion or trillion dollars funding it from approx. 1972-1995. Those documents will one day give us all the real freedom of religion when scientists can end their quest for using their psychological mind game war fare for peace and human potential.

Those scientists were able to use their previously c.i.a. held top security documents to continue doing their work for humanity. That is the reason, the priority reason I support HRC.
  
Re: What????
By illinoismel May 14th 2008 at 12:57 am EDT
Shoot Valley Village, you don't count according to some on this site; you are a racist. I have seen you called that more than once. They don't want us, remember? They have it covered.

BTW, when are you ever going to get a screen name?

I am a proud supporter of the Honorable Senator, Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Re: What????
By 57 year old independent white male May 14th 2008 at 1:10 am EDT
The Clinton supporters seemed embarrassed that her strongest demographic is uneducated white voters.

I feel the uneducated white voter is a large part of the American electorate that should not be looked down on.

If they could come to know Obama I feel a large portion would support him.
  
The truly sad part
By Lifetime Democrat May 14th 2008 at 1:56 am EDT
Is that people are being lumped together & labeled. How can you say that everyone that supports Hillary is uneducated? This is not correct. How can you say that eveyone who votes for Obama is educated...that would be equally not true.

Why do we have such headlines? To label people like this, only helps to further the divisions between them. Is this the Obama plan, to say that he is the uniter, yet every day, we're told that we're stupid, uneducated, poor, etc.. the list goes on.

I personally have a degree, yet I still support Hillary, because she is the best person for the job.

The label for people who label other people, is IGNORANCE!!!!!
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By 57 year old independent white male May 14th 2008 at 2:12 am EDT
To do statistical analysis you nedd to group people.

It nothing more than measurable characteristics.

It cannot be subjective measures.

Uneducated usually refers to individulas with less than a high school education or just a high school education.

Many of those people do not have formal education but they are very intelligent
Re: The truly sad part
By Lifetime Democrat May 14th 2008 at 2:19 am EDT
I know exactly what un-educated means. Its the grouping (as you call it) that I dislike.

It's over simplifies the situation and doesn't reflect the truth.
Re: The truly sad part
By Lifetime Democrat May 14th 2008 at 2:21 am EDT
And in this case, it's done to stereotype.
Disparaging comments will not be tolerated.
Re: The truly sad part
By Lifetime Democrat May 14th 2008 at 2:27 am EDT
Hate Hillary??????? Where did you get that? I stated earlier that I'm a Hillary supporter. I would I support someone I hate?

Read back......
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By Lifetime Democrat May 14th 2008 at 2:28 am EDT
Nevermind Rich, I see you were not speaking to me...
Disparaging comments will not be tolerated.
Disparaging comments will not be tolerated.
  
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By annie b (mcliberal) May 14th 2008 at 5:25 am EDT
what a bunch of hateful bigots.
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By Terry May 14th 2008 at 9:51 am EDT
and they are supposely educated.

Hillary 08