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2687d ago / 10:57 PM UTC

NBC News Exit Poll: Trump Leads Among Non-College Whites, Clinton Has Edge Among College-Educated White Women

According to early NBC News Exit Poll data, working class whites — identified here as those without a college degree — are indeed decisively for Trump by more than a two-to-one margin.

College-educated whites, by contrast, are dividing about evenly between Hillary Clinton and Trump in these early data. That is a dramatic departure from 2012, when Mitt Romney won the college-educated white vote by a full 14 points. 

Digging one level deeper, we reach a perennial swing group — white women with college degrees. These women broke for Barack Obama in 2008 but tilted back for Mitt Romney in 2012. According to early exit poll data, Clinton has an 8-point lead among white women college graduates tonight.

This group of women reacted particularly strongly and negatively to the revelations about Trump's treatment of women. Fully 58 percent of college educated white women said that his treatment of women bothered them a lot, which compares to just 45 percent among working-class white women. 

2688d ago / 3:35 PM UTC

Meet the NBC News Exit Poll Desk Team

Throughout Election Night, a team of survey research analysts will be crunching the numbers on who voted, what issues were on their minds and why they voted the way they did.

The team includes Stephanie Psyllos, manager of exit polling, NBC News; Scott Keeter, senior survey advisor at Pew Research Center; Courtney Kennedy, director of survey research at Pew Research Center; Cary Funk, associate director of research at Pew Research Center; Patrick Murray, director of the Monmouth University Polling Institute; Maureen Michaels, president of Michaels Opinion Research Inc.; Mara Ostfeld, postdoctoral fellow, Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan; Patrick Egan, associate professor of politics and public policy at New York University; Hannah Hartig, assistant director, University of Pennsylvania's Program on Opinion Research and Election Studies; Jennifer Su, senior project director, Princeton Survey Research Associates International; and Andrew Arenge, assistant producer, NBC News. The NBC News Exit Poll Desk works closely with digital editors David Taintor and Elizabeth Johnstone to curate the stories we produce.