Anyone who has spent any time analyzing public opinion and voting data from the last 20 or so years has seen the fault lines that Donald Trump is leveraging. The data is clear: Anxiety about those who are different, support for traditional American values and a resistance toward openness all play a role in how people make up their minds in presidential elections.
They have for some time. Mr. Trump is not the first candidate to appreciate this fissure, but he is the first one in quite a while who has been willing to exploit it so explicitly. CONT.
Lynn Vavreck (UCLA), New York Times