Francis Wilkinson, Columnist

Election Analysts Discover Even More White Voters

A new study says the 2016 vote was whiter than the exit polls showed.

February 2, 2018 at 1:00 PM UTC

Francis Wilkinson is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering US politics and policy. Previously, he was executive editor for the Week and a writer for Rolling Stone.

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It seems that even more white voters are coming out of the electoral woodwork.

Political analyst Ruy Teixeira and co-authors have just produced a study arguing that the exit-poll data in 2016 was all wrong. They’re not the first to do so. The election was barely concluded before pollsters Matt Barreto and Gary Segura were arguing that exit surveys had substantially over-counted Donald Trump’s share of the Hispanic vote.