Trump owes his victory to the uninformed. But it’s not just Trump. Political scientists have been studying what voters know and how they think for well over 65 years. The results are frightening. Voters generally know who the president is but not much else. They don’t know which party controls Congress, what Congress has done recently, whether the economy is getting better or worse (or by how much). Or, of course, as evidenced by the poster above, they are raging racists and uneducated bigots who hated a black man who is better, more educated, with more charm and erudition than they will ever achieve.

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