Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum on Sunday reached out to voters who do not want a college degree, saying that pushing Americans toward higher education “devalues the tremendous work” of people who are not interested in going to college.

His comments came a day after taking a swipe at President Barack Obama’s education goals at a campaign event in Troy, Mich. “President Obama once said he wants everybody in America to go to college – what a snob!” Mr. Santorum said.

He toned it down a bit on Sunday morning, saying on ABC’s “This Week” that “there are lot of people in this country that have no desire or no aspiration to go to college, because they have a different set of skills and desires and dreams that don’t include college. To sort of lay out there that somehow this is — this is — should be everybody’s goal, I think, devalues the tremendous work” of “people who, frankly, don’t go to college and don’t want to go to college.”

Government statistics show that unemployment is higher among those without a college degree. In January, the jobless rate for those with less than a high school degree was 13.1%, according to the Labor Department. That compares with a 4.2% unemployment rate among people who have a bachelor’s degree or more education. The rate was 7.2% for those who have graduated from high school but have never gone to college…