Trump versus Clinton?

[TheRealJoeFish]

I don't want to derail, but the list of ethnicities seems a bit crass ;P No need to split black people into college or no college I guess?

Nah, I agree that FiveThirtyEight maybe should have provided an explanation of why they did it like that.  It struck me as a little blunt as well, but I didn't note that in my post on the map tool.  Near as I can tell, the reasons for that particular breakdown are 1) non-white voters don't tend to vote differently based on whether they have a college degree, whereas white voters markedly do, and 2) FiveThirtyEight is first and foremost a statistical site, so they want their sample sizes to be as big as possible and their mathematical tools to be as helpful as possible; the bloc of "college-educated Asian/Other voters" is only 2 or 3 percent of the whole electorate, which might be hard to get reliable results for and wouldn't really effect the utility of the map tool.  Essentially - and I'm just guessing what FiveThirtyEight was doing, here - they didn't think it would be helpful for some of the groups in the tool to be less than a tenth the size of other groups (the current breakdown of the groups sizes is: White College Educated 37.2%, White Non-College-Educated 33.3%, Black 13.3%, Hispanic/Latino 10.6%, Asian/Other 5.5%)