Trump Winning Less Educated Whites by Huge Margins Hillary Clinton is faring worse than President Obama among white working-class voters. It suggests that Mr. Trump and Mr. Obama might have a little more in common than you might think — at least from a political standpoint. It’s even stranger if one believes that racism is at the core of Mr. Trump’s appeal: If Mr. Trump’s supporters are animated by racism, then why did so many of them vote for Mr. Obama? But his appeal among some white Obama supporters suggests that Mr. Trump and Mr. Obama might have something in common. Mr. Trump has changed the story lines of the 2012 and 2008 elections — and tapped into many of the same issues and frames that helped Mr. Obama.

Source: New York Times November 06, 2016 17:57 UTC