Vox Is Wrong About the Midterm Elections
Despite breathless claims of a deepening political cold war, Democrats made gains this month in every Republican-leaning voting group.
A polling place in Arlington County, Virginia. Mrs. Gemstone / Wikimedia.
Zack Beauchamp, writing for Vox:
The preliminary results reveal the divides that determined the 2016 election are intensifying and strengthening. Republicans did well with rural voters, white Southerner voters, and low-educated voters — while Democrats won among city-dwellers, minorities, and highly educated white suburbanites.
It’s true that Republicans won certain constituencies, but I’m baffled by the suggestion that these advantages are “intensifying and strengthening”. Look at how Republican margins among these groups in 2016 compared with their margins on Tuesday:*
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