Nearly all prognosticators - pollsters and pundits - alleged most college-educated whites would never vote for Trump. Meanwhile the other DrC and I were sitting here - two whites with three college degrees apiece - having voted absentee for Trump and wondering how can those gloomy "experts" be correct?
The other DrC says she always planned to vote for Trump, and had trouble understanding the prediction of a wave of women voting for Clinton. A predicted wave which never materialized, it should be noted.
We would better have trusted our instincts and ignored the prognosticators. Lots more college educated whites voted for Trump than anybody thought would happen. Lots more women voted for Trump than anybody much predicted.
Meanwhile, many fewer minorities voted for Clinton and that, at least, we did predict. I've not yet heard the numbers on millennials, but I'm guessing they were slackers too.
A bunch of rust belt blue collar whites who'd stayed home in the last two elections came off the bench and voted for Trump, as he'd predicted they would. Hence Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Wisconsin went for Trump.
