By David Byler
November 18, 2016
In the months leading up to the presidential election, there was much speculation that Donald Trump’s unorthodox candidacy and strong appeal to working-class white voters would shake up the familiar red/blue Electoral College map. Now that the election is over, it’s worth asking: To what degree did that happen?
The Broad Features of the Map Are Basically UnchangedTrump did cause some shifts in a number of states (discussed below), but there are still many commonalities between the more familiar 2012 map and the 2016 presidential election results. Democrats ran strongly in the Northeast and on the West Coast, while Republicans dominated much of the South and Mountain West. A comparison between the final results in 2012 in each state and this year’s statewide results (based on ballots counted so far), shows that for the most part, red states stayed red, blue states stayed blue and competitive states remained competitive....
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