Why weren’t college-educated voters able to stop Trump from winning the 2016 GOP primaries?
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« on: May 15, 2021, 01:40:09 PM »
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« Reply #1 on: May 15, 2021, 02:30:56 PM »
A lot of college educated Republican primary voters supported Donald Trump.
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« Reply #2 on: May 15, 2021, 02:31:40 PM »
Because they were effectively split up among the remainder of the field and getting swamped by new (mostly non-college) voters.

I'd also wager that Trump got a decent number of college-educated voters but he wasn't winning them by margins like he was with non-college voters.
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« Reply #3 on: May 15, 2021, 07:58:24 PM »
Rubio and Cruz turned out to not be very good alternatives
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« Reply #4 on: May 17, 2021, 02:32:16 PM »
Quote from: H. Ross Peron on May 15, 2021, 02:30:56 PM
A lot of college educated Republican primary voters supported Donald Trump.

Particularly in the northeast. A lot of moderates supported him too. And it's also unclear if Kasich's voters (the most college ed) would've gone to him or Cruz in a two-way, but I don't think it would've been enough to stop Trump regardless.
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« Reply #5 on: June 05, 2021, 09:32:17 PM »
A lot of them supported Trump.
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« Reply #6 on: June 05, 2021, 10:19:06 PM »
They were split between Rubio and Cruz. For example, in Virginia and Minnesota they supported Rubio, whereas in Texas, Kentucky, Missouri, and North Carolina they supported Cruz. (And in Ohio they supported Kasich)

Also, the GOP primary is a lot more winner take all based than the dem primary, so Trump for the most part only needed pluralities to crush as the frontrunner.
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