Is Haley’s Problem That Too Many Degree-Holders Like Her?

Politico’s Jonathan Martin has identified the fatal flaw in Nikki Haley’s already long-shot bid to displace Donald Trump from his perch at the top of the polls.

In a dispatch that conveys the author’s distaste for both the Republican Party’s perfunctory exercise in primary politics and the mechanical way in which Donald Trump’s opponents have gone through the motions in their inexorable march toward defeat, Martin identified through a collection of anecdotes Haley’s Achilles heel. “I struggled to find a single attendee in the suburban strip mall tavern who was not a college graduate,” he wrote of his impressions from a Haley campaign stop in Iowa. “Similarly, the day before, I couldn’t find a Haley admirer who showed up to see her in Sioux City who was not also a college graduate.”