Study: Medicaid expansion popular among college graduates. Does education foster empathy?

Voters in Idaho, Nebraska and Utah tend to skew conservative politically, and the last time they supported a Democratic president was in 1964. Yet on Nov. 6, voters in all three states passed Medicaid expansion referendums after their governments failed to act. To succeed, these referendums needed a key voting bloc to look past its self-interest: college graduates with bachelor’s degrees.