Education Split in Alabama Primary Suggests Bumpy 2018 for GOP Senate - NBC News

"...There are five counties in the state of Alabama where more than 30 percent of the 25-and-over population has a college degree, according to the U.S. Census. Strange won three of those counties and did so fairly convincingly, by about 8 points, 54.1 percent - 45.9 percent.



But the rest of state went against the sitting senator and the margins for him got worse as the percentage of those with a college education dropped.



There are two counties where the college education rates were between 25 percent and 30 percent. Moore won those counties by about 6 points, 53.2 percent – 46.8 percent. The rest of the counties have fewer than 25 percent of the population with a degree. Moore won them by more than 18 points, 59.2 percent – 40.8 percent.



Those education numbers have a special significance when you look at the Republican Senate seats that are up in 2018. In eight of them, all but Utah, the college-educated population numbers are below 30 percent, which is roughly the national average..."



Education Split in Alabama Primary Suggests Bumpy 2018 for GOP Senate - NBC News