Posted on 07/11/2016 7:11:15 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
ATLANTA — Wanda Melton has voted for every Republican presidential nominee since Ronald Reagan in 1980, but now the Georgia grandmother plans to cross over to support Democrat Hillary Clinton.
“I’m not a real fan of Hillary,” Melton says from her office in Atlanta. “But I think it would just be awful to have Donald Trump.” She adds: “I cannot in good conscience let that happen.”
Melton is among a particular group of voters, whites with college degrees, who are resistant to Trump. Their skepticism comes as an ominous warning as Trump struggles to rebuild even the losing coalition that Mitt Romney managed four years ago.
College-educated whites made up more than one-third of the electorate in 2012. Polls suggest Trump trails Clinton with those voters, especially women.
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And common sense street smarts seems to totally vanish for "social science" liberal arts PhDs (and even some science and engineering PhDs)
I’m a college educated, white republican with a brain too. And like you xzins I would never even consider voting for Clinton.
and I am a white college educated grandmother..
I would never vote for a Clinton...
due to the fact she crossed over to the Democrats so fast, she wasn’t a Conservative type of Republican to start with...
RINO women can be worse than the men...
SIGH
I suspect what we have here with these people are what I call “republican butts.”
Every four years they trot themselves out to the press and say “I’m a republican but...” They then explain why THIS is the year they have to vote for the democrat. And we’re supposed to believe this is the ONLY time ever they didn’t pull the lever for some Democrat.
I’d bet cash money most of them haven’t voted for a republican president ever. They just enrolled GOP in order to be able to say “republican for [fill in DNC nominee du jour].”
volunteering to have your fingernails ripped out sounds like fun does it ?
Isn’t it amazing that it’s COLLEGE EDUCATED women who seem to be swayed by the argument that they should vote for a candidate because the candidate has a vagina?
I have two university degrees in the sciences and in engineering. I have been a Trump supporter from the beginning. The brainless twit featured in this article...degree in basket weaving?
Just a guess, but I think it has something to do with being run by liberals.
I can understand someone having a principled opposition to Donald Trump and choosing not to vote for him (yea, I know) but I cannot understand anyone, ANYONE ever voting for that byotch. To be on the left and vote for her is delusional. To be on the right and vote for her is despicable.
The editors and writers for the NY Post took too many blows to the head back when they were out on the street, covering various riots and continually getting in the face of the cops who were trying to break up the commotion. Definitely not part of the solution, and anything but impartial observers.
Me too, and also like this woman, I have voted for every republican since Reagan. How she could even consider voting for Hillary is beyond me.
I have two college degrees, a bachelor’s and an advanced degree and I support Trump. Whatever small margin he might be losing among college grads, he is picking up elsewhere.
It is still very early in the campaign.
I just wish the idiots in the GOP had THEIR convention last and not the Democrats.
So she will take a known crook because what?
She didn’t even give a reason.
They say that to friends and interviewers. Wait until they get in the voting booth.
Hogwash.
I call BS.
fake story by the MSM.
they always trot out these “i’ve been a republican all my life, but i’m voting for Dukakis/Mondale/Carter/Clinton/Obama/Kerry” nonsense just before an election.
anybody can say they voted for anybody. it doesn’t prove that it is so. the MSM LOVES stories about “principled opposition” that crosses over to vote for their guy because the GOP nominee is a racist/sexist/homophobe/nazi.
it’s all BS. have you ever seen a story where somebody claims to have always been a democRAT and has voted for democRATS all the way back to JFK, but now, out of principle, they will be voting for Trump over Hillary? nope?? me either.
Google tells us Wanda Melton is a paralegal for a law firm who has an LGBT activist and Democrat as a partner.
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