A piece for Rolling Stone by Joshua Holland, “Everyone Gets It Wrong About Donald Trump and White Voters,” presents a fairly detailed analysis concerning non-college-educated white voters.

Holland reports:

• The Democrats’ share of those voters in presidential elections has fluctuated pretty consistently with their share of all white votes (and the vote overall).
• Democrats have a serious problem with those voters in the Deep South and the Mountain states.
• Republicans are unpopular with this demographic in the North-central states and on the West Coast.
• And the two parties are competitive in the rest of the country.

Holland uses that data to make disparaging comments about the widespread concern about the issue. He says:

• No group of voters is more fetishized than white people who didn’t attend college.
• Liberals have long engaged in hand-wringing about non-college-educated whites.
• It’s no longer necessary to bend over backwards for these voters.
• A near-obsession with these voters persists.

He concludes, “Clinton may well outperform Obama with this demographic.”

But his dismissive attitude overlooks the fact that polls indicate that Trump is doing better than Romney with non-college-educated whites and Clinton is doing worse than Obama.

Regardless, the bottom line is that the Democrats need to win big, including in Congressional elections, which calls for a better performance with those voters.

Holland’s stance runs counter to that proposition.