Digging deeper into the preliminary Virginia exit polls, it’s notable that Biden has a comfortable lead over the other candidates among college graduates, including white college graduates — not a demographic with which he had shown much strength in the four early states. Of course, in line with his earlier performance, his lead among non-college nonwhite voters is even more formidable.
In Virginia, voters of all education levels back Biden
Candidates’ vote share by race and education, in preliminary exit polls in Virginia
| White | Nonwhite | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| candidate | college graduates | non-college graduates | college graduates | non-college graduates |
| Biden | 52% | 46% | 54% | 69% |
| Sanders | 19 | 32 | 25 | 20 |
| Warren | 15 | 10 | 10 | 2 |
| Bloomberg | 12 | 8 | 10 | 7 |
| Gabbard | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
| Buttigieg | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Klobuchar | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Steyer | 0 | 0 | — | 0 |