“One group within North Carolina that I'm really keeping my eye on are college educated whites. It's a group Republicans have traditionally won, but with Trump on the top of the ticket they're behaving differently, they are moving more toward the Democratic column.”Tagged: Election 2016, FiveThirtyEight
“2016 is a year that has challenged political norms and traditional coalitions, something that is evident in Gaston County. The faultlines in America, this election has shown, are between white and nonwhite and increasingly between those with a college education and those without it.”Tagged: Election 2016, Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump, Polling
“Gaston County is made up of cities and towns filled with modest homes and businesses. Most of its roughly 200,000 residents are white, and more than half of people aged 25 and over have attended at least some college. In 2012, Mitt Romney won the suburban county easily, 62 percent to President…”Tagged: Election 2016, Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump, Polling
“Even on hot-button issues like race, Biden was proud of his ability to foster compromise and centrism. It’s a legacy that hasn’t aged as well in a Democratic Party which is more apt to burn its one-time idols than study their historiography.”Tagged: Joe Biden, 2020 Election