By Steve Sailer
09/17/2017
Commenter Felix Fischer writes:
OT: So I did a text search on the e-book of “What Happened” by Hillary Clinton. In summary, I think it’s revealing that the strings “islam”, “refugee”, “illegal immigra”, and “jihad” get a total of 0 results. On the other hand “wikileaks” gets 35 results, and “Russia” gets 267 results. It’s almost as if “what happened” was Donald Trump actually addressed the concerns of the American electorate. For instance, which do you think voters are more concerned about: Russia or Islam?26% is a pretty disgracefully low awareness number for what is perhaps the most overwhelmingly attested finding in the social sciences.There are also some pretty entertaining quotes:
Gallup compiled a word cloud depicting everything Americans read, saw, or heard about me during several months of the campaign. It was dominated by a single giant word: email. Much smaller, but also visible were the words lie and scandal. Interestingly, in Trump’s word cloud, immigration and Mexico stand out much more than jobs or trade. More on that shortly. [pg. 761 of e-book]
In June 2017, the Voter Study Group, a consortium of academic researchers, published a major new survey that tracked the same eight thousand voters from 2012 to 2016. “What stands out most,” concluded George Washington University professor John Sides, are “attitudes about immigration, feelings toward black people, and feelings toward Muslims.” Data from the gold standard American National Election Studies also showed that resentment toward these groups was a better predictor of Trump support than economic concerns. And as I previously mentioned, exit polls found that Trump’s victory depended on voters whose top concerns were immigration and terrorism, despite his lack of any national security experience and my long record. That’s a polite way of saying many of these voters were worried about people of color — especially blacks, Mexicans, and Muslims — threatening their way of life. They believed that the political, economic, and cultural elites cared more about these “others” than about them. …
When I said, “You could put half of Trump’s supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables,” I was talking about well-documented reality. For example, the General Social Survey conducted by the University of Chicago found that in 2016, 55 percent of white Republicans believed that blacks are generally poorer than whites “because most just don’t have the motivation or willpower to pull themselves up out of poverty.” In the same survey, 42 percent of white Republicans described blacks as lazier than whites and 26 percent said they were less intelligent.
In all cases, the number of white Democrats who said the same thing was much lower (although still way too high). [pg. 789 of e-book]Was Hillary always like this? Did she become a lot dumber after she fell down and hit her head in 2012?Wow. Just Wow.
I’ve never really paid enough attention to her to have an opinion, but she seems really boringly dumb lately. Or is it just that our entire society has gotten dumber and Hillary is the representative unoriginal person?
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