No, she underestimated their greed, religiosity, and jingoism, especially the former.
Yes. There's also the baffling, elitist assumption that getting a college degree somehow inoculates you against racism and xenophobia, even though "college" for a lot of people just means "spending 4-5 years at a lower-tier state school partying while pretending to study marketing or communications".
Eh, well, the story of this election is that college degreed people moved decisively toward Democrats for the first time, right? (after traditionally being a Republican constituency in the 90s, early 00s).
And the people who were traditional republicans turned off by trump's misogyny, xenophobia, etc were the people that she was targeting. The really xenophobic ones she wasn't really trying to peel off, they are a working class/rural.
Also, as an aside, college degree is kind of a complex marker for generation and class nowadays it seems like.
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