How Trump Won Michigan: A Case Study
Robert Zapesochny
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February 2, 2017, 12:04 am
Making calls for his candidate — thousands of them.
Four states in the 2016 election were decided by less than 1 percent of the vote. In percentage terms, Michigan was the closest (0.22% percent), followed by New Hampshire (0.37%), Pennsylvania (0.72%), and Wisconsin (0.76%).
Donald Trump won Michigan by only 10,704 votes. Fortunately, he had one volunteer that made 32,133 phone calls.
In early 2016, Larry Salliotte had just recently recently retired. For over 40 years, he had a business in custom home building in Ann Arbor, Michigan. When Trump announced his campaign, Larry moved from Ann Arbor to a house he was building in Onsted, a small village in the Irish Hills region of southern Michigan.
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