Interesting Facts About the 2016 Election

[DonViejo]

December 16, 2016 By Taegan Goddard

The Cook Political Report compiles 56 interesting observations about the 2016 presidential election.

Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton carried the popular vote by more than 2.8 million votes, and 2.1 percentage points. But while she narrowly improved on President Obama’s margin in non-swing states (4.1% vs. 4.0%), she vastly underperformed in the 13 swing states that actually mattered: Obama’s 3.6-percent margin in those states morphed into a 1.8-percent Trump lead.

Trump won the White House by winning 76 percent of counties with a Cracker Barrel Old Country Store and 22 percent of counties with a Whole Foods Market. This 54-percent gap is the widest ever recorded. When Bill Clinton was elected in 1992, it was 19 percent; when George W. Bush was elected in 2000, it was 31 percent; and when Barack Obama was elected in 2008, it was 43 percent.

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https://politicalwire.com/2016/12/16/interesting-facts-2016-election/

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1. lol! the cracker barrel vs. whole foods vote!

interesting way to measure the balkanization of our country.

[guillaumeb]

2. So if we could close down all of the Cracker Barrel stores...............

we would be assured of a win.

[triron]

3. What the first paragraph reports

is all the more telling due to Greg Palast's assertions about the stolen election and plausible hacking of the election itself.

[Fast Walker 52]

4. sad fact is 31% voters couldn't get time off work to vote

and other good stuff here:

http://craigconnects.org/voting2016