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riversedge

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Thu Jul 7, 2016, 12:33 PM Jul 2016

Clinton is on track to win white college grads. A Democrat hasn't done that in 60 years.



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FiveThirtyEight ?@FiveThirtyEight 13h13 hours ago

Clinton is on track to win white college grads. A Democrat hasn't done that in 60 years. http://53eig.ht/29idSmZ



http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/trump-may-become-the-first-republican-in-60-years-to-lose-white-college-graduates/?ex_cid=538twitter



Jul 6, 2016 at 12:34 PM
Trump May Become The First Republican In 60 Years To Lose White College Graduates

By Harry Enten

Filed under 2016 Election

Donald Trump during the opening session of the Western Conservative Summit on Friday in Denver.

David Zalubowski / AP

Donald Trump does really well among white voters without a college degree. Indeed, he is on track to carry that group by a wider margin than Mitt Romney did over President Obama four years ago. But there’s another side to that coin: While Trump is outperforming your run-of-the-mill Republican among whites without a college degree, he’s underperforming among white voters with a college degree. In fact, he is on a track to lose white college graduates.

That’s really unusual for a Republican, and it means that among white voters overall, he’s probably not holding a winning hand.

If you look at seven live interview polls taken since Trump wrapped up the nomination in May, he has trailed among whites with a college degree by an average of 6 percentage points. The same polls have him losing among the overall electorate by an average of 5 percentage points. (That’s about where the race stands now.)



TRUMP’S MARGIN
POLL START DATE OVERALL WHITE COLLEGE GRADUATES
CBS/NYT May 13 -6 -4
NBC/WSJ May 15 -3 0
ABC/Post May 16 +2 +1
CBS News June 9 -6 -21
CNN June 16 -5 -8
NBC/WSJ June 19 -5 -1
ABC/Post June 20 -12 -8
Average -5 -6
Trump’s struggles among white college graduates in recent polls










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Clinton is on track to win white college grads. A Democrat hasn't done that in 60 years. (Original Post) riversedge Jul 2016 OP
Which leads to my question: "WTF is WRONG with us that we haven't voted for a D in 20 years?" Squinch Jul 2016 #1
The election is in November not today bigdarryl Jul 2016 #2
Well... yes I know... And Christmas is in December... Squinch Jul 2016 #3
There is no way a Republican can win without white college educated voters KingFlorez Jul 2016 #4

Squinch

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1. Which leads to my question: "WTF is WRONG with us that we haven't voted for a D in 20 years?"
Thu Jul 7, 2016, 12:41 PM
Jul 2016

Makes me want to call Skittles.

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