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Re: Clinton Looks to Reverse Voting Trends With Some Help From Trump

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Enthusiasm Gap

Recent national polls of registered voters show Clinton leading with college-educated whites, a group that President Barack Obama lost by 14 percentage points nationally in 2012 and by 4 points in 2008.

The size of her advantage in late June varied from just 1 point in a Wall Street Journal/NBC News survey, to an 8-point edge in a Washington Post/ABC News poll, to 10 points in a Quinnipiac University survey.  

Obama won two terms in office by driving up turnout among blacks, Hispanics, women, and young people even as he lost among white college graduates. But in her primary race against Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, Clinton confronted an enthusiasm gap among white voters as well as with many of the groups that formed the core of Obama’s support.

On Tuesday, Clinton will attempt to address those shortcomings, joining Obama on Air Force One for a flight to Charlotte, North Carolina, where the president will make his debut campaign appearance on her behalf. Blacks may account for almost one in four eligible voters in the state in November.




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Clinton Looks to Reverse Voting Trends With Some Help From Trump
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Tue, 05 Jul 16 5:02 PM 		Msg. 22019 of 65535

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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http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2016-07-05/clinton-looks-to-reverse-voting-trends-with-some-help-from-trump

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