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Clinton Looks to Reverse Trend with White Voters

July 5, 2016 at 6:34 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“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,” Bloomberg reports.

“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.”

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