Here’s a fascinating comparison of the 2012 and 2016 presidential elections via Stuart Stevens. I’m not sure what the source is—someone’s PowerPoint presentation, perhaps—but I assume the data was transcribed correctly. Here it is:
This is based on one poll, and it’s pre-convention. Still, it sure explodes a lot of myths about Donald Trump. He’s doing worse among white men than Mitt Romney and much worse among white women. He’s doing slightly better among the middle-aged, but far worse among the elderly. And he’s doing better among blacks.
On the non-surprising front, he’s doing far worse among Latinos. Obama won them by 44 percent, while Clinton is winning them by 62 points. I wonder why?
This doesn’t show how Trump is doing specifically among blue-collar white men (those with no more than a high school diploma), but I wonder if he’s really as popular among this demographic as everyone thinks? Or, in the end, is he just going to perform in a pretty standard Republican way, but just a bit worse?
