Demographics aren't your friend if you are white and christian
Millennials and people of color, the voters of the future, are finding the GOP radioactively unsupportable. If you back the president and think the foregoing point is just sour grapes from a Never Trumper, you should stop reading now. There’s survey evidence corroborating Republicans’ long-term peril.
Online pollster SurveyMonkey asked more than 600,000 Americans last year their view of Trump. The results, in line with other polls, showed more people disapproving of the president’s job than approving. But it was the breakdown of who precisely approves and disapproves that’s revealing.
SurveyMonkey found that, among most white Millennials, disapproval of Trump runs a staggering 62 to 76 percent. Among white male Millennials without college, part of his base, Trump’s approval-disapproval rates were an underwhelming 49-49 tie.
Overwhelming majorities of African-Americans disapprove of Trump’s performance. Among Hispanics, his highest approvals come from men over 50; among Hispanic women of all age groups, he’s toxic.
In short, Trump hasn’t solved the demographic dilemma that troubled Republican pollster Whit Ayres even before the billionaire declared his candidacy: “Groups that form the core of GOP support — older whites, blue-collar whites, married people and rural residents — are declining as a proportion of the electorate. Groups that lean Democratic — minorities, young people and single women — are growing.”
For now, many white voters fear the inevitable browning of America. That fact, plus Hillary Clinton’s shortcomings and the idiosyncrasy of the Electoral College, handed Trump victory. But SurveyMonkey found that his antics last year cost him support among two groups that were critical to his 2016 coalition.
That year, 66 percent of whites without college degrees voted for him, but his first year in office shaved 10 points off that support. Meanwhile, white voters with four years of college gave the Donald 48 percent of their votes two years ago. Now, just 40 percent approve of him.
http://www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/2018/01/23/surveymonkey-trump-rich-barlow
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...tian-america-is-dying/?utm_term=.6c45f83f284b
