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2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumClinton 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 theres another side to that coin: While Trump is outperforming your run-of-the-mill Republican among whites without a college degree, hes underperforming among white voters with a college degree. In fact, he is on a track to lose white college graduates.
Thats really unusual for a Republican, and it means that among white voters overall, hes 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. (Thats about where the race stands now.)
TRUMPS 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
Trumps 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
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Squinch
(50,773 posts)1. Which leads to my question: "WTF is WRONG with us that we haven't voted for a D in 20 years?"
Makes me want to call Skittles.
bigdarryl
(13,190 posts)2. The election is in November not today
Squinch
(50,773 posts)3. Well... yes I know... And Christmas is in December...
KingFlorez
(12,689 posts)4. There is no way a Republican can win without white college educated voters