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Appeal to White Voters Without College Degrees (none / 0) (#86)
by RickyJim on Mon Jul 25, 2016 at 07:37:17 PM EST
According to Nate Cohn in the NY Times Trump is leading Clinton 58% to 30% in this group, which represented about half the voters in 2012. However it is true that Obama won that year despite Romney having a 55% to 37% lead among that group in pre-election polls.  However Cohn, I think correctly, says that Clinton's weakness in this demographic is the main reason the race is close.

It will be interesting to see if the Democrats address this problem during the convention.  Certainly their opening lineup doesn't.

It is a shrinking proportion of the electorate (none / 0) (#117)
by ruffian on Mon Jul 25, 2016 at 08:41:53 PM EST
Which of course is part of the frustration among that group. What part of common good can they not relate to?

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