Pundits see a 'diploma divide' in politics. They're focused on the wrong thing | Dustin Guastella

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

62% : No doubt, there is good evidence that higher education itself leads to more progressive views.
56% : Yet whether we understand shifting political alignments as a function of class, as a broad social and relational concept, or education, a narrow credential category, implies a great deal about political strategy.
50% : As a result, college-educated voters are less worried about the effects of immigration as a downward pressure on their wage, they don't fret over free trade deals and they broadly welcome cultural changes.
41% : Meanwhile, as the wage premium for college-educated workers continues to shrink, there is reason to believe that college-educational attainment will stall and Democrats' college-educated base will only get smaller.
36% : If we say that a given party wins the "non-college-educated vote", without reference to social class, we risk suggesting that political behavior is related, primarily, to intelligence or achievement.

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