How a college degree is one of the best predictors of which candidate voters support
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🗓️ 30 October 2024
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| 0:00.0 | Americans are divided in many ways, including based on their education backgrounds. |
| 0:06.0 | That's especially true in this presidential election. |
| 0:09.0 | A recent PBS News NPR Marist poll found that Donald Trump is leading among voters without a college degree |
| 0:15.5 | by 10 percentage points. Kamala Harris is leading with college graduates by 21 points. |
| 0:21.8 | To explore this so-called diploma divide, Judy Woodruff visited two neighboring but |
| 0:26.6 | very different counties in Michigan where both candidates have repeatedly made their case as |
| 0:31.6 | this year's campaign nears the end. It's part of |
| 0:34.3 | her ongoing series America at a Crossroads. Do you still consider yourself a |
| 0:40.4 | Democrat? I do now. Oh good. Diane Doyle Smith has spent much of this |
| 0:46.3 | campaign season canvassing door-to-door to try to boost the Democratic turnout |
| 0:51.3 | near her home in Novine, Michigan, less than 30 miles |
| 0:55.1 | northwest of downtown Detroit. I was a Republican for many, many years. I never |
| 1:01.6 | voted for Clinton or Obama. |
| 1:05.0 | Despite her voting record and the fact she lives in Oakland County, a once reliably |
| 1:10.6 | Republican stronghold, Smith is now the vice chair of her local Democrats |
| 1:15.9 | club. |
| 1:16.9 | When Donald Trump got the nomination in 2015, I did not want him to be our candidate. |
| 1:24.5 | After he won, I cried for, gosh, probably two days. |
| 1:28.7 | And then I looked online for our local Democratic club, and I went to the next meeting. |
| 1:35.0 | When you realized he was running again for president, what was your thinking? |
| 1:40.0 | Shock, dismay, disbelief that they would choose him. |
| 1:45.0 | I just still can't get over it, especially after January 6. |
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