Red States and Blue States Are a Myth
By Brandon Finnigan — December 1, 2016
On Election Night 2016, I found myself at BuzzFeed’s offices in New York City.
They had embarked on a bold live streaming show with the aim of mocking traditional network coverage and providing a fun, straight-to-the-point program of returns, tweets, and Millennial-centric fare. Behind the scenes, this meant practice runs of the night.
Our first trial rehearsal involved a scenario many at the time thought unlikely, if not impossible: a Trump win.
And the trial we ran, in fact, turned out to be closer to the reality of the night than any publicized election whiz’s projection.
His victory wasn’t out of the blue: The New York Times’ Nate Cohn had written about his potential to tap white blue-collar voters north of the Mason-Dixon line, I’ve spilled ink here and at The Federalist describing the changing registration patterns and untapped voters, and the Cook Political Report’s Dave Wasserman waxed about Pennsylvania’s value back in June. But it was still a shock that, after the Keystone State had tempted and ensnared so many Republicans, it was Donald Trump and his team who took it home.
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