College-Educated Republican Woman Now Registered As a Democrat

Right after voting for Hillary Clinton and Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) in 2016, a Republican friend of mine said she'd never vote for Sen. Grassley again. However, she also said she couldn't afford Senator Bernie Sanders' taxes.

When Pres. Trump signed the Tax "Reform" Act, which conferred 83% of its benefits on the richest one percent of Americans, I asked her if she and her husband made over $700,000 a year. It was rude to ask, I know, but I was trying to make a point about the Republican tax cut.

"No," she said.

Obviously, my point was that most people, even those making the income of two upper-income professionals like my friend and her husband, would not benefit from the Republican tax cut, although the tax "reform" package was sold as a tax cut for everyone. Did you notice that the tax cuts for the top one percent are permanent and those for the rest of us are temporary?

Then came the Brett Kavanaugh hearing to evaluate whether he was worthy of a promotion to the U.S. Supreme Court. Senator Charles Grassley put on trial Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, who alleged that Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her when he was 17 and she was 15, while another boy, a friend of Kavanaugh's, was in the room. He and the other elderly white male Republican senators gave Kavanaugh, who was rude, impertinent, and inappropriate, a pass to SCOTUS as associate justice.

"I'm sorry that [my daughter] had to see that," she said calmly.

I could only tell how furious she was by the fact that she wrote Republican Jeff Flake (R-AZ), who should win an Oscar for him impersonation of a man with a conscience during the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing of Kavanaugh, and told Flake that if he ran for president she would reregister as a Republican and vote against him in her Iowa 2020 caucus.

The Republican Party is losing college-educated women in droves, especially in the suburbs. Alabama Senator Doug Jones (D) won the votes of African-American men (93%) and women (98%) and over 50% of college-educated white women in suburbs that voted for Donald Trump in 2016 by over 30 percentage points. White women with post-college education voted 58% for Doug Jones. White men with post-college education voted 39% for Doug Jones.

Trump's approval rating in the last Gallup Poll was 38%. His disapproval rating was 60%. Former Pres. Gerald Ford (R) had an approval rating of 45% and failed to be elected in his own right after succeeding to the presidency after Pres. Richard Nixon (R) resigned following the Watergate scandal. Republicans should be concerned that they're losing college-educated women. They've already lost younger voters. Sixty-one percent of 18-44 year old voters voted for Doug Jones.

"Remember Kavanaugh" is Sen. Grassley's election cry. It's college-educated women's election cry as well. We'll see how "Remember Kavanaugh" turns out in 2020 and 2022 when Grassley's up for reelection. I've already donated to the Crowdpac.com fund for his opponent, whoever that may be, in case he runs again.