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    A new 50-state poll

    A new 50-state poll shows exactly why Clinton holds the advantage over Trump

    The road to the White House

    It's a long road to the White House, so The Washington Post polled all 50 states to find out what each candidate needs to do to get there. (Peter Stevenson, Julio Negron, Zoeann Murphy/The Washington Post)

    By Dan Balz and Scott Clement
    September 6 at 7:00 AM

    With nine weeks until Election Day, Donald Trump is within striking distance in the Upper Midwest, but Hillary Clinton’s strength in many battlegrounds and some traditional Republican strongholds gives her a big electoral college advantage, according to a 50-state Washington Post-SurveyMonkey poll.


    The survey of all 50 states is the largest sample ever undertaken by The Post, which joined with SurveyMonkey and its online polling resources to produce the results.


    The state-by-state numbers are based on responses from more than 74,000 registered voters during the period of Aug. 9 to Sept. 1. The individual state samples vary in size from about 550 to more than 5,000, allowing greater opportunities than typical surveys to look at different groups within the population and compare them from state to state.


    [How the Post-SurveyMonkey poll was conducted]

    New poll shows how Trump-Clinton matchup is redrawing the electoral map VIEW GRAPHIC

    The massive survey highlights a critical weakness in Trump’s candidacy — an unprecedented deficit for a Republican among college-educated white voters, especially women. White college graduates have been loyal Republican voters in recent elections, but Trump is behind Clinton with this group across much of the country, including in some solidly red states.

    The 50-state findings come at a time when the average national margin between Clinton and Trump has narrowed. What once was a Clinton lead nationally of eight to 10 points shortly after the party conventions ended a month ago is now about four points, according to the RealClearPolitics polling average. A number of battleground states also have tightened, according to surveys released from other organizations in recent days.


    The Post-SurveyMonkey results are consistent with many of those findings, but not in all cases. Trump’s support in the Midwest, where the electorates are generally older and whiter, appears stronger and offers the possibility of gains in places Democrats carried recently. He has small edges in two expected battlegrounds — Ohio and Iowa — and is close in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Michigan, each of which Democrats have won in six consecutive elections.


    At the same time, however, Trump is struggling in places Republicans have won consistently and that he must hold to have any hope of winning. These states include Arizona and Georgia, as well as Texas — the biggest surprise in the 50-state results. The Texas results, which are based on a sample of more than 5,000 people, show a dead heat, with Clinton ahead by one percentage point.


    Clinton also leads by fewer than four points in Colorado,Florida and is tied with Trump in North Carolina.

    In Colorado, other polls have shown a larger Clinton lead.

    InMississippi, Trump’s lead is just two points, though it’s doubtful that the GOP nominee is in much danger there.

    Electoral college advantage for Clinton

    In a two-way competition between the major-party candidates, Clinton leads by four points or more in 20 states plus the District of Columbia. Together they add up to 244 electoral votes, 26 shy of the 270 needed to win.


    Trump leads by at least four points in 20 states as well, but those add up to just 126 electoral votes. In the 10 remaining states, which hold 168 electoral votes, neither candidate has a lead of four percentage points or better.

    VIEW GRAPHIC
    How our new poll compares with past presidential election results in every state

    A series of four-way ballot tests
    that include Libertarian Party nominee Gary Johnson and Green Party nominee Jill Stein project a somewhat narrower Clinton advantage, with more states showing margins of fewer than four points between the two major-party candidates. But even here, at the Labor Day weekend turn toward the Nov. 8 balloting, the pressure is on Trump to make up even more ground than he has in recent weeks if he hopes to win the White House.


    The poll finds Johnson is poised to garner significant support. He is currently receiving at least 15 percent support in 15 states. The libertarian’s support peaks at 25 percent in New Mexico, where he served two terms as governor. He is only four points shy of Trump’s 29 percent standing there.

    His support in Utah is 23 percent, and in Colorado and Iowa it is 16 percent. Stein has less support in the poll, peaking at 10 percent in Vermont and receiving at least 7 percent support in 10 states.


    [Read the full Post-SurveyMonkey results]


    Overall, the results reflect Trump’s strategy of maximizing support in older, whiter Midwestern states where his anti-free-trade message and appeals to national identity generally find more fertile ground.


    But his struggles elsewhere, including places that have long supported Republicans, illustrate the challenges of that strategy in more diverse states where his stances on immigration and some other positions have turned off Democrats, independents and many Republicans.


    Demographic divisions shape the competition

    To win the election, Trump must quickly consolidate the Republican vote. With prominent Republicans declaring they will not support Trump and some even announcing they will back Clinton, this represents a major challenge for the GOP nominee. In the Post-SurveyMonkey poll, Clinton is winning 90 percent or more of the Democratic vote in 32 states, while Trump is at or above that level in just 13.


    As expected, the Clinton-Trump contest has split the electorate along racial lines. Their bases of support are mirror images: On average, Clinton does 31 points better among nonwhite voters than whites, and Trump does 31 points better among white voters than nonwhites.


    The electorate is also divided along lines of gender and education, in many cases to a greater extent than in recent elections. Averaging across all 50 states, Clinton does 14 points better among women than men, and Trump does 16 points better among men than women. Clinton is winning among women in 34 states, and she’s close in six others.

    Trump leads among men in 38 states, is tied in six and trails in the other six.


    It is among college-educated voters, however, where Trump faces his biggest hurdle. In 2012, white voters with college degrees supported Republican nominee Mitt Romney over President Obama by 56-42 percent. Romney won with 59 percent among white men with college degrees and with 52 percent among white women with college degrees.


    So far in this campaign, Clinton has dramatically changed that equation. Among white college graduates, Clinton leads Trump in 31 of the 50 states, and the two are about even in six others. Trump leads among college-educated whites in just 13 states, all safe Republican states in recent elections.


    Across 49 states where the poll interviewed at least 100 white college-educated women, Clinton leads Trump with this group in 38 states and by double-digit margins in 37.

    Averaging across all states, Clinton leads by 23 points among white women with college degrees.


    Trump’s base among white voters without a college degree remains strong and substantial. He leads Clinton in 43 of the 50 states, and the two are roughly even in five others. She leads among white voters without a college degree in just one state: Vermont.


    Overall, Clinton does 19 points better among white college graduates than whites without degrees while Trump does 18 points better among whites without degrees than whites with college educations, on average.


    Trump’s challenge in the states that remain close will be to produce significant turnout among white, non-college voters to offset those Clinton margins, but it’s far from clear that there are enough of them to be decisive. Absent that, the GOP nominee must find a way to appeal to these college-educated voters during the final weeks of the campaign.


    States and regions shaping the race

    Trump’s strength across some of the states in the Midwest is one potential bright spot for the Republican nominee. Clinton’s biggest lead among the contested states in that region is in Pennsylvania, where her margin is just four points. In Wisconsin and Michigan, she leads by a nominal two points, while Trump leads by four points in Iowa and three points in Ohio.


    Recent polls by other organizations have indicated that Wisconsin has tightened over the past month. A recent Suffolk University poll in Michigan shows Clinton leading by seven points, and the RealClearPolitics average in Ohio shows Clinton ahead by three points. Overall, among the quintet of Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, Iowa and Pennsylvania, Michigan has been the Democrats’ most reliable of the group, always one of the 15 best-performing Democratic states over the past five elections.


    The Rocky Mountain West is another area of fierce competition. The Post-SurveyMonkey poll shows Colorado closer than other polls there, with Clinton leading by just two points and the race tied when Johnson and Stein are included. Meanwhile, Clinton and Trump are roughly even in Arizona. In Nevada, Clinton enjoys a lead of five points in head-to-head competition with Trump but by just three points in a four-way test.
    Of all the states, Texas provided the most unexpected result. The Lone Star State has been a conservative Republican bastion for the past four decades. In 2012, President Obama lost the state by 16 points. For Democrats, it has been among the 10 to 15 worst-performing states in the past four elections.

    The Post-SurveyMonkey poll of Texas shows a dead heat with Clinton at 46 percent and Trump at 45 percent.

    Democrats have long claimed that changing demographics would make the state competitive in national elections, but probably not for several more cycles.


    A comparison of the current survey with the 2008 Texas exit poll (there was no exit poll there in 2012) points to reasons the race appears close right now. Trump is performing worse than 2008 GOP nominee John McCain among both whites and Hispanics, while Clinton is doing slightly better than Obama.


    Among men, Trump is doing slightly worse than McCain did eight years ago. The bigger difference is among women.

    McCain won a narrow majority of women in Texas while Trump is currently below 40 percent. That’s not to say Texas is turning blue in 2016. Given its history, it probably will back Trump in November and possibly by a comfortable margin. But at this stage, the fact that it is close at all is one more surprise in a surprising year.


    Emily Guskin contributed to this report.

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/polit...24d_story.html

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    Clinton's lead with white, college educated women is not surprising. This is the most sheltered group in the political spectrum. Sheltered from reality, that is. They have jobs that pay well, and involve little actual risk. And if everyone could fit in that same niche it would be fine, but the real world involves a lot of dangerous tasks and ones that are physically hard. A lot of them are ensconced within the corporate system doing things that facilitate the goals of the corporation, but without the downside of workplace hazards or bitter rivalries and revenge. Or they are working within public institutions---academia, government, healthcare---where employers have to follow some rules in dealing with employees, whose rights are fairly well protected. It gives them an unrealistic view of the world.

    It's a social trend and the number of new ultraliberal feminist politicians is another aspect of this.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Captainron View Post
    Clinton's lead with white, college educated women is not surprising. This is the most sheltered group in the political spectrum. Sheltered from reality, that is. They have jobs that pay well, and involve little actual risk. And if everyone could fit in that same niche it would be fine, but the real world involves a lot of dangerous tasks and ones that are physically hard. A lot of them are ensconced within the corporate system doing things that facilitate the goals of the corporation, but without the downside of workplace hazards or bitter rivalries and revenge. Or they are working within public institutions---academia, government, healthcare---where employers have to follow some rules in dealing with employees, whose rights are fairly well protected. It gives them an unrealistic view of the world.

    It's a social trend and the number of new ultraliberal feminist politicians is another aspect of this.
    Most of these suburban women who Trump is having some trouble with according to the polls are white collar workers, they don't understand blue-collar issues, or poverty that comes from blue-collar loss of jobs. When you move out of major metro suburbs and get into smaller cities, these same types of educated women understand the problems, because even though they might be white collar workers, they're often married to a blue-collar worker or have friends who are blue-collar workers, or have friends and family who were in white collar jobs who lost them because a plant was closed, and there's no replacements.

    Trump isn't having problems with women because they're educated and have good jobs, it's because of their specific location in Democratic suburbs outside major cities far removed from the struggles of our nation, coast to coast. They judge the situation from their immediate vicinity and frame of reference. It's wrong and very stupid of them, but it's not because they have degrees and a good job. It's because they're Democrats to start with and probably work for the government or health care.
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    I said that they often work for the government or healthcare. They often work in education, and they are often corporate climbers, too. And as the latter they already are hired guns against improving things for the workforce. And also, merely having a degree often does not translate into real world skills, although it should. My new neighbor is an advice nurse for a major HMO. This HMO does a lot of nasty tricks on people, simply because they have the power. I had a diagnosis last winter that showed anemia and I also had some bleeding. They wanted me to schedule a colonoscopy. The actual cause of the anemia was giving blood too frequently to the Red Cross, which I now have stopped.

    Personnel with this HMO, as long as they are reasonable sticking to the script, are like free riders. The HMO does all of the nasty work, such as getting Medicare payments, or giving healthcare to illegals and getting federal reimbursement. But the personnel think this success is essentially due to their skills and work. My neighbor likes to spout off, sometimes, giving advice, stemming from her "health vision"; like how to take care of trees. She also thinks our liberal government is not responsible for our out of control urban growth, but instead that they are being pushed around by 'developers.'
    She's a Bernie supporter, as are many in healthcare.
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