In September, a shocking poll showed that Clinton's support among women had dropped off about 30 points in two months. That's serious by just about any standard.

But it turns out that Clinton's real problem wasn't with all women, it was with white women -- despite political analysts expecting white, progressive women, in particular, to gravitate toward her campaign and key themes. At that point, less than half supported Clinton in the Democratic primary campaign -- down from 63 percent in July.

Of course, that was a long time ago -- long before voting began. Now we have several states where we have gathered enough data from different groups of female voters with sample sizes large enough to tell us more -- with a reasonable amount of reliability. In fact, in five states thus far -- Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, Texas and Virginia -- exit polling shows very interesting breakdowns along racial and gender lines.

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Much has been written about how black voters are Clinton's "firewall." But in primaries, women have been delivering her important wins, too -- women of all races.

This is helping offset her struggles with the largely white male voters who have rallied around her challenger, Bernie Sanders. In fact, Clinton has lost the female vote in just two primary states -- New Hampshire and Sanders's home state of Vermont. (She does worse overall in caucus states, but most don't have entrance poll data.) That has a lot to do with her performances among black women, but she also has been very strong among white women.

Take a look at the chart below culled from exit poll data posted by CNN. (Unfortunately, exit polls have gathered enough information about Latina voting in just one state thus far: Texas.)

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White

Women Black

Women Latino

Women AL Clinton 58% 93% Sanders 39% 5% GA Clinton 65% 86% Sanders 34% 14% SC Clinton 60% 89% Sanders 40% 11% TX Clinton 63% 86% 72% Sanders 35% 13% 27% VA Clinton 64% 85% Sanders 36% 15%

In these five states, Clinton is beating Sanders by far among all groups of women for whom we have detailed information. Her biggest leads are with women of color. In fact, she's winning nearly 9 in 10 black female voters, and she won more than 7 in 10 Texas Latinas.