As the nation heads to the polls today, one trend in American politics is very clear: college-educated voters, once solid supporters of the Republican Party, now overwhelmingly favor the Democrats.
Different polls and exit polls reach slightly different conclusions about the size of the Democratic advantage with college-educated voters. The nonpartisan Pew Research Center has concluded that in the 2020 election, college-educated voters chose Biden over Trump by a 14-point margin, 56 percent to 42 percent. The gap was even larger for voters with graduate educations, who went for Biden over Trump by an astounding 67 percent to 32 percent. A more recent analysis by Pew concluded that 57 percent of college-educated voters generally support Democrats, with only 37 percent favoring Republicans. Regardless of the precise size of the Democratic advantage, the underlying fact is undeniable: the more higher education you have, the more likely you are to vote for Democrats.
