Hillary Clinton leads Donald Trump by double-digit percentage points among college-educated white voters, according to a new poll.
Whites with a college degree favor Clinton over Trump by 11 percentage points, 48-37, according to a Purple Slice online poll for Bloomberg Politics. This group reportedly made up nearly a third of the electorate four years ago and former GOP nominee Mitt Romney won them by 14 percentage points in 2012, according to exit polls from the Associated Press.
Clinton’s lead on Trump grows to 22 percentage points, 54-32, among all college educated voters, which President Obama won by just 2 percentage points four years ago.
Bloomberg’s data show that Trump has had some difficulty reassembling Romney’s coalition that lost in 2012, but other polling shows him performing exceedingly well among whites without college degrees.
Trump has proclaimed, “I love the poorly educated” and polling suggests they love him. But his deficit among those with college degrees could present problems for Trump in crucial swing states this fall.
Purple Strategies conducted the online poll for Bloomberg from July 7-10. It surveyed 653 likely general election voters with a 3.8 percentage point margin of error.
