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Originally Posted by Adder
You've written two posts now characterizing the median income Trump voter as the typical Trump voter. Which is not how math works.
And now you've added a citation that further contradicts the point you were trying to make.
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The post cites 72k as an average:
“In fact, Silver parsed the data to discover the average Trump voter makes $72,000 per year — a middle-class income solidly above the typical American.”
ETA: Bizarrely, it then states the following:
“As compared with most Americans, Trump’s voters are better off. The median household income of a Trump voter so far in the primaries is about $72,000, based on estimates derived from exit polls and Census Bureau data.”
WTF?
ETA: Median income in US was $50k for 2014, average was $75k.
https://factfinder.census.gov/faces/...prodType=table
Median Trump voter is thus right at natl average. We can’t compare median and average, but it’s clear Trump voters are not generally affluent.
