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I don’t really know how much to make of this, but Donald Trump’s victory in New York last night was remarkably thorough. Take a look at the exit poll results on the right for evidence.
Yes, Trump did well in his wheelhouse of high school grads. But college grads and postgrads also voted for him by huge margins. In New York, at least, having a PhD (or an MA or a law degree or a medical degree) didn’t do much to help you see through his obvious flimflam.
Perhaps even more remarkably, Trump’s strongest support didn’t come from blue-collar workers with modest incomes. It came from middle and upper-middle-class voters. Whatever their motivations, it didn’t have anything to do with China and Mexico taking away their jobs.
