Clinton Looks to Reverse Voting Trends With Some Help From Trump
Long a Republican mainstay, white college graduates are trending Democratic in 2016.
Hillary Clinton’s path to the White House relies on reassembling the winning Obama coalition of minority voters and women, but her campaign is vying for a demographic long out of reach for Democrats—college-educated whites—that could reshape the map of U.S. swing states this year.
For decades, white voters with at least a bachelor’s degree have favored the Republican nominee over the Democrat in U.S. presidential elections, although not by as much as working-class whites.
The 2016 presidential election is turning that dynamic on its head. Polling shows that while presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump is the clear choice among white voters without a college education, whites who’ve completed college prefer Clinton. It’s a trend analysts say is especially apparent among women, and may become more pronounced between now and November.
“The moment [Trump] became a serious candidate, it immediately presented itself as a hypothesis,” said Ruy Texeira, a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, a progressive think-tank with ties to Clinton, who’s tracked the white college- and non-college vote for years.
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