Trump's stunning presidential victory
— more white women backed him than Hillary Clinton, national exit poll
data show.
Trump received support from 53 percent of white women, while Clinton
got 43 percent, according to the data, which were collected by Edison
Research for The Associated Press, the TV news networks, and the New
York Times.
That group voted for Trump despite allegations of sexual assault made
against him and the vulgar remarks he made about women, and even
though Hillary Clinton was in position to make history as the
country's first woman president.
White women were a key demographic, accounting for 37 percent of voters.
Within the white women voter segment, Trump did particularly well with
non-college-educated white women, getting support from about 62
percent of that group, compared to 34 percent for Clinton, the data
show. (Men in the non-college-educated segment favored Trump even
more.)
Meanwhile, Clinton drew support from 51 percent of college-educated
white women, compared with 45 percent for Trump.
Women of other races and ethnicities backed Clinton.
Black women supported her 94 percent to Trump's 4 percent. Among
Hispanic and Latino women, 68 percent voted for Clinton, while 26
percent favored Trump.
But those groups made up a smaller share of the electorate, with black
women accounting for about 7 percent of voters and Hispanic and Latino
women for about 6 percent.
Source Cnn.com
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