Controversy of Donald Trump – Millenial Influx

Controversy of Donal Trump
Billionaire Donald Trump is on the face of today’s political topic. The businessman began his campaign in June 2015. The republican candidate announced his bid for presidency at Trump Tower in New York City.

Donald Trump is now the frontrunner for the GOP nomination, attracting nearly half of Republican support, in the latest national poll. The unusual charm of the Trump Brand has been documented,mocked, admired, and mourned. So who are Trump’s consumers-who is buying this stuff and who is not?

The first consumers are the ones who are uninformed voters. Trump supporters are less engaged than the average likely primary voters, with a significant in one key area: which they are less informed on the issues. This means his voters are less likely that GOP primary voters to vote for a candidate based on the issues and they are less likely to keep up with a particular issue.
The Second Trump-supporter focuses on the typical demographics of- gender, race, and age. Back in December, Trump’s supporter suddenly shifted to male, white, and poor. The male-female gap was 19 percentage points (47 percent support among men versus 28 percent among women).

This controversy is applicable to the millennial age, because all age groups are involved in this upcoming election. These millennial are part of Trump’s support. Some of the ones who are turning out to vote for him include those who didn’t go to college. The best predictor of Trump support in the GOP primary is the absence of a college degree. “For every 1 percentage point more college graduates over the age of 25, Donald Trump’s share of votes falls by 0.65 percentage points”

The other Donald Trump’s supporters falls into the people who think they don’t have a political voice. A middle-aged white man who hasn’t graduated from college and feels voiceless is among his voters. For instance it is found out that Trump crushes Ted Cruz among voters who both strongly believe that “immigration threatens American customs and values” and among voters who favor raising taxes on the richest Americans. Though, people who agreed with the statement that “people like me don’t have any say about what the government does” were 86.5 percent more likely to prefer Trump. This sign of powerlessness and voiceless was a better predictor of Trump support than age, race, income, attitudes towards Muslims, illegal immigrants, or Hispanic identity.

On the other hand, Donald also have a strong anti supporters. One group would be women. Trump have several women in the politics and outside politics. With his pattern of insults directed to women, Trump is effected in a way. Poll released earlier showed Clinton leading Trump 60% to 33% among women in a hypothetical general election match-up.

Homeschooler in the Real World

Emma Folts, a sophomore at Wheaton College, shares her experience about her transition into college and how homeschool has both helped and hindered her.
How has your homeschool experience benefitted you, especially in your transition into college?
I think the one thing that homeschooling did that was really helpful as I entered college was that it taught me time management. As a homeschooler I had the same freedom as a college student has to put things off during the day and go see a friend instead. Since I had that experience, I knew the cost of that.
Also, personal responsibility and accountability with assignments. I feel like a lot of the other students had more expectations for gentler grading and that the professor would give them retakes or extensions, but that wasn’t something that ever happened to me in school. That learning curve wasn’t added because I never had it the other way. I think another thing was that because I was homeschooled, I was familiar with the format of teaching and then studying on my own.
Did you see any issues with your transition socially?
I think that homeschooling had two ramifications for me socially. One was helpful, one was hurtful.
It was really helpful because as a homeschooler, I had spent a lot of time realizing and developing who I was as a person and learning to recognize people who were being themselves, and those were the people I sought out as friends. Friendship as a homeschooler takes a lot more investment. I knew I was choosier with my friends which made me a lot less anxious and a lot more content.
The only real negative impact of the social bit was that I was really used to getting to choose the time I got to spend with people. As a homeschooler I spent a lot of time with people, but that time was controlled by me. As a college student, I found that you can’t really control the time you spend with people and alone time is not really available. Learning to deal with that was a lot harder than anticipated.
Any last comments on homeschool and how it has affected your college experience?
I think homeschooling is really helpful, however it does take a slightly increased amount of advocacy with your peers when you’re entering into college. I think a lot of people come in with certain assumptions about homeschool, especially students. You’re going to get a lot of, ‘oh my gosh, you don’t seem like a homeschooled person!’ [You can’t] take that too personally and explain your experience so that friends can understand it’s an important piece of you, though it might not look like the homeschooling that they’ve seen.
My encouragement to anyone who is a homeschooler transitioning into college is to realize the benefit that you have having been homeschooled, and to realize that the bit of advocacy and explaining that you need to do with your peers is totally normal and that it’s not a big deal. Once they understand your experience, it’s not something I’ve experienced being looked down on for.