Trump Appeals To Cognitively Challenged Voters

[Straight Shooter]

During the 2016 election, Donald Trump famously proclaimed "I love the poorly educated!" Well, if "poorly educated" is a euphemism for "cognitively challenged," new research finds they loved him right back.

It reports Trump voters, on average, performed more poorly than Hillary Clinton supporters on a standard test widely regarded as a good indicator of intellectual ability.

"Intellectual factors played an important role in the 2016 election," writes a research team led by Yoav Ganzach of Tel Aviv University. "These results suggest that the 2016 U.S. presidential election had less to do with party affiliation, income, or education, and more to do with basic cognitive ability."

In the journal Social Psychological and Personality Science, Ganzach and his colleagues analyzed data from the American National Election Studies, which included 5,914 participants in 2012 and 4,271 in 2016.

Besides expressing their attitudes toward that year's presidential candidates, participants took a standard test of verbal ability. Specifically, they were presented with 10 sets of words, and asked "to identify the word or phrase in a set of five that was the closest to the target word."

While hardly comprehensive, the test "is considered a good indicator of general cognitive ability," the researchers note.

After taking into account participants' party affiliation, the researchers found intellectual ability was a strong predictor of attitudes toward the two major candidates in 2016. Specifically, they found "clear negative relationships of verbal ability and education with attitude toward Trump."

In contrast, they found "weak, nonsignificant relationships of verbal ability and education with attitude toward [Mitt] Romney" in his failed 2012 campaign. In both elections, higher levels of education and verbal ability were associated with support for the Democratic candidate [Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton].

"Support for Trump was better predicted by lower verbal ability than education or income," the researchers add. "Our analyses indicate that support for Trump was less about socioeconomic standing, and more about intellect."

Ganzach and his team note that Trump, on the campaign trail, expressed his opposition to both socially liberal beliefs (such as support for abortion rights and opposition to racism) and fiscally conservative beliefs (such as free trade). Both sets of beliefs have been linked in past research with higher cognitive ability, so it makes sense that their appeal would be largely limited to those who score lower on such measures.

This research adds to the rapidly growing list of findings attempting to explain why the American voters (although not a majority) supported a candidate widely viewed as lacking the qualifications or temperament to be president.

While economic anxiety has been largely ruled out as a likely explanation, studies have pointed to whites' fear of declining social status in a rapidly changing society, as well as racist and sexist beliefs, tribalism, possessing an authoritarian mindset, and even being prone to anxiety, and thus susceptible to Trump's fear-based appeals.

Ganzach's findings align with those of another recent study that found Democrats who crossed over to vote for him were the least likely demographic to engage in analytical thinking. This may be because, in many cases, they just aren't good at it.

https://psmag.com/news/trumps-appeal-to-the-cognitively-challenged

I didn't need a study to tell me this

#StraightShooter

 

[sean miguel]

Hey look, liberals calling those who vote Republican dumb.

 

[zeeblofowl_1969]

Hey look, liberals calling those who vote Republican dumb.

Not dumb.
Usually under informed and/or excitable.
But there is no such thing as asbsolutes.

 

[sean miguel]

there is no such thing as asbsolutes.

That statement itself is an absolute claim.

But what do I know, I support President Trump.

:thumbsup:

 

[Supafly]

Foxy, YOU would call someone like you dumb, that is the whole point.

I would NOT call you dumb. Cognitively challenged, among other issues, but not dumb in general.

 

[georges]

Foxy, YOU would call someone like you dumb, that is the whole point.

I would NOT call you dumb. Cognitively challenged, among other issues, but not dumb in general.

Because you think your bunch of democraps are so wiser than anyone else just look at who you have as senators to name a few: Feinstein, Pelosi, Blumenthal, Durbin, Leahy, Waters, Hirono who encouraged violence and harassment against Republican officials are only supported by thugs, unpatriotic as well as unwilling to work moochers from the worst places and you want to give example about who is better educated. Just let me laugh. During 8 years of your Obama community organizer, 4 millions of people on foodstamps and not mentioning no positive economic growth. Democrats are so desperate and I can see this in your post. You are really unbelievable

 

[georges]

Not dumb.
Usually under informed and/or excitable.
But there is no such thing as asbsolutes.

Under informed? What a fucking joke. See which state had the biggest voter fraud? California And by who it is run? By some incompetent fucking democrap douchebags. Tell me which town from which state had a bloody week due to shitty and retarded restrictive gun laws? Chicago in the shitty state of Illinois, Obama's state and by who is it run? By a fucking democrap. We know the bias of the democraps and their love for violent thugs. The democrap voters believed in all the hype and the diatribes made by Obama and what did they get at the end ? Shit and giggles :yesyes: Democrap voters are as naive and gullible as 10 years old children without any ability to get in touch with reality but they are constantly acting like an angry mob and they have absoluetly no morals and no ethics. Being under educated, violent and being easily brainwashed is what caracterize democrap voters at 100%.

 

[zeeblofowl_1969]

Under informed? What a fucking joke. See which state had the biggest voter fraud? California And by who it is run? By some incompetent fucking democrap douchebags. Tell me which town from which state had a bloody week due to shitty and retarded restrictive gun laws? Chicago in the shitty state of Illinois, Obama's state and by who is it run? By a fucking democrap. We know the bias of the democraps and their love for violent thugs. The democrap voters believed in all the hype and the diatribes made by Obama and what did they get at the end ? Shit and giggles :yesyes: Democrap voters are as naive and gullible as 10 years old children without any ability to get in touch with reality but they are constantly acting like an angry mob and they have absoluetly no morals and no ethics. Being under educated, violent and being easily brainwashed is what caracterize democrap voters at 100%.

Again a blank statement. You have zero idea which state if any has the most voter fraud.
Again you blame everything under the sun on Obama.
You are correct that Democrats tend to be on the Naive side and hopelessly optimistic.
As to morals???
The GOP has now put 2, count em 2, possible deviants on the Supreme Court........
Fucking morals????

 

[georges]

Again a blank statement. You have zero idea which state if any has the most voter fraud.
Again you blame everything under the sun on Obama.
You are correct that Democrats tend to be on the Naive side and hopelessly optimistic.
As to morals???
The GOP has now put 2, count em 2, possible deviants on the Supreme Court........
Fucking morals????

I blame who needs to be blamed whether you like it or not and I blame despicable unpatriotic community organizers. Deviants? According to whom? To Feinstein and her bunch of angry bitches??? As well as to Ford whose testimony was never corroborated and who was never a credible witness to start with , but a bribed person by the democraps in order to ruin Kavanaugh's nomination. I bet you are ok with Ruth Bader Ginsburg. You are so damn predictable and I guess I shouldn't be astonished from your reaction.

 

[zeeblofowl_1969]

I blame who needs to be blamed whether you like it or not and I blame despicable unpatriotic community organizers. Deviants? According to whom? To Feinstein and her bunch of angry bitches??? As well as to Ford whose testimony was never corroborated and who was never a credible witness to start with , but a bribed person by the democraps in order to ruin Kavanaugh's nomination. I bet you are ok with Ruth Bader Ginsburg. You are so damn predictable and I guess I shouldn't be astonished from your reaction.

As I said before
EVERY ONE OF THEM IS CROOKED......
Left or Right they walk hand in hand to make each other wealthy and to serve their masters every whim....

Its just too fun winding you up.

 

[Supafly]

That Kanye West visit just is more proof that not only Trump is attractive to retards, that joke of a rapper symbolizes another group of dimwits

 

[RJS13]

That Kanye West visit just is more proof that not only Trump is attractive to retards, that joke of a rapper symbolizes another group of dimwits

That cracks me up LOL. Before Kanye came out as a Trump supporter liberals loved him, now he's a retard :rofl2:

 

[georges]

As I said before
EVERY ONE OF THEM IS CROOKED......
Left or Right they walk hand in hand to make each other wealthy and to serve their masters every whim....

Its just too fun winding you up.

No, you absolutely don't wind me up. You are making my willingness to never back down especially when it comes disussing to politics much stronger than ever and I thank you for that.
More for you , left-Wing activits are hyper-educated white people who likely earn $100K a year
https://dailycaller.com/2018/10/10/left-wing-activists-white/

 

[georges]

That Kanye West visit just is more proof that not only Trump is attractive to retards, that joke of a rapper symbolizes another group of dimwits

So damn predictable coming from you People who set other people cars on fire, what are they then? They are just some fucking despicable and disgraceful liberal trailer trash with no ethics and no morals. Truck set on fire because of pro-Trump stickers, owner says
https://www.foxnews.com/us/truck-set-on-fire-because-of-pro-trump-stickers-owner-says

And what could be considered a sign of praising that douchebag cunt of Eric Holder who then encouraged violence and then claimed he wasn't encouraged violence? A sign of intelligence? Absolutely not, it is a sign of typical liberal hypocrisy with an absolutely despicable double standard mob mentality coming from the brainless, dangerous, unethical and unpatriotic liberal/democrap voters

 

[pool_hustler]

That cracks me up LOL. Before Kanye came out as a Trump supporter liberals loved him, now he's a retard :rofl2:

Did they? I must have missed that. All the libs I know have always considered him an ignorant embarrassing attention whore (no wonder he and Trump get along so well).

Under informed? What a fucking joke. See which state had the biggest voter fraud? California And by who it is run? By some incompetent fucking democrap douchebags. Tell me which town from which state had a bloody week due to shitty and retarded restrictive gun laws? Chicago in the shitty state of Illinois, Obama's state and by who is it run? By a fucking democrap. We know the bias of the democraps and their love for violent thugs. The democrap voters believed in all the hype and the diatribes made by Obama and what did they get at the end ? Shit and giggles :yesyes: Democrap voters are as naive and gullible as 10 years old children without any ability to get in touch with reality but they are constantly acting like an angry mob and they have absoluetly no morals and no ethics. Being under educated, violent and being easily brainwashed is what caracterize democrap voters at 100%.

lol Thanks for letting me know that myself, my family and all the high quality friends I have who are democrats all love violent thugs and have nor morals or ethics :1orglaugh
What a giant load of crap. Good grief :1orglaugh

 

[georges]

lol Thanks for letting me know that myself, my family and all the high quality friends I have who are democrats all love violent thugs and have nor morals or ethics :1orglaugh
What a giant load of crap. Good grief :1orglaugh

I am not targetting you but an important number of the democraps voters who were paid to disrupt at the Kavanaugh hearing as well as to many of these antifas who were blocking portland who were also minions of the democraps. Have you seen republicans getting violent or blocking towns? Not me. The fact that a lot of the democraps voters praised and still praise people such as Pelosi, Schumer, Waters, Durbin, Booker, Harris and other despicable people says a lot about their so called ethics, highly hypocritical double standards, their antipatriotism and their morals.

 

[RJS13]

Did they? I must have missed that. All the libs I know have always considered him an ignorant embarrassing attention whore (no wonder he and Trump get along so well).

Yep, and if if I remember correctly it was libturds that dubbed him an artistic genius :1orglaugh

 

[Supafly]

Good grief, Georgie, I am antiTrump, so I am Antifa?

Well, you prove that point about which kind of people Trump appeals to.

 

[georges]

Good grief, Georgie, I am antiTrump, so I am Antifa?

Well, you prove that point about which kind of people Trump appeals to.

You told me this in another thread, does this ring a bell?

Yes, Georges, you used the words I would probably use to characterize you and fox and jack/bc. You are classic alt-right guys. I don't hope to win any arguent with you, I am past that. But the future belongs to other, fresher minds, so run your mouths, you are history

Did I ever mentionned or pointed you as belonging to this group??? No, I don't think so. You are not even a registered democrat ever and you don't even have family in the US. If you think that harassing and assaulting elected government officials from the other side, bribing protesters in order to disrupt a court, blocking a city or even torch someone's car because he is pro trump that you find it justified then it just shows me your double standards and that you are very far to be tolerant. I will always support people who have strong principles, who are strong on borders and unforgiving on crime, who are against uncontrolled illegal alien immigration, who are for their citizens first, who stand proudly for their law enforcement and their military, who value their flag, antional anthem, constitution, tradition and religion. I don't see any problems with it but for some people especially from the left, patriotism is a vile thing that shouldn't even exist but for lliberals globalism and statelesness should prevail. A country without identity, without values and borders isn't a country.

 

[sean miguel]

I would NOT call you dumb. Cognitively challenged, among other issues, but not dumb in general.

Don't take this the wrong way, Supa, but that actually means nothing to me coming from you.

#StayInYourLane