With nearly every demographic, Hillary Clinton is outperforming Barack Obama in 2012

So much is at stake for working families--Lets hope these women stay awake and get to the polls in Nov. 4 MONTHS


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With nearly every demographic, Hillary Clinton is outperforming Barack Obama in 2012
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With nearly every demographic, Hillary Clinton is outperforming Barack Obama in 2012


By Philip Bump July 7 at 5:16 PM

Hillary Clinton speaks to Ohio voters during a rally at the Cincinnati Museum Center at Union Terminal in Cincinnati last month. (Melina Mara/The Washington Post)

New data from the Pew Research Center offers a neat little bookend for our analysis Thursday morning showing that Hillary Clinton was outperforming Donald Trump in nearly every swing state, especially compared with how President Obama was doing against Mitt Romney at this point in 2012. The Pew data offers a different bit of detail, breaking down how a wide variety of demographic groups — age, geography, ideology, education — felt about the candidates four years ago and how they feel about them today.

Matt McDermott of Whitman Insight Strategies picked out the most remarkable shift over that time period. White women with college degrees were about evenly split between Romney and Obama in June 2012, according to Pew's numbers. Now, Clinton leads Trump by 31 points.

That's by far the biggest change since 2012, but it's by no means the only one. In most cases, demographic groups look more favorably at Clinton relative to Trump than they did at Obama relative to Romney. Women in particular are moving more to the left this year than they expressed to Pew four years ago. White women under the age of 50, for example, are 19 points more supportive of the Democrat than they were then. White women 50 and over are 15 points more supportive......................


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