

Clinton appears to be pulling away in Virginia - reports last week suggested the Republican ticket is abandoning the commonwealth, seeing it as unwinnable - and in Florida, PPP's latest found Clinton leading Trump by four points in a four-way contest. In the modern polling era, no candidate has ever overcome that kind of deficit in in an election's closing weeks.Also of interest, the Wall Street Journal added, "The clearest dividing line in this year's presidential election now falls along educational lines: Whites without a college degree have consolidated behind Donald Trump and those with a four-year degree are tending to back Hillary Clinton." This is consistent across multiple surveys over the course of several months: the more formal education a voter has received, the more likely he or she is to support Clinton.The latest polling from individual states is similarly discouraging for Trump backers. Polling aggregators now put Clinton's lead between five and seven points. Yesterday, the latest Washington Post/ABC News poll found a far more competitive race, with the former Secretary of State leading by just four points, with Trump drawing support from GOP partisans - including many of those who believe he's guilty of sexually assaulting women.Obviously, there's a pretty significant difference between a 4-point race and an 11-point race, which is why averages help paint a broader picture. Note, not every poll shows Clinton with an advantage nearly that large.
