POLS 230 Lecture 9: Part II: Outsider Politics of 2016
11 Nov 2016
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Week 9 part ii: what happened (outsider politics of 2016) 2nd count of republican electoral win though has not won the popular vote (bush in 2000, trump in 2016) Turnout voting eligible population declined to 55. 6% (2016 election) from 58. 6% (2012 election). Lower turnout states tend to favor republicans. The democratic "blue wall": the cluster of 18 states and d. c. that have gone democrat and were crucial to obama victory. More than 200 counties that obama won twice supported trump in 2016 election. No longer an advantage for democrats during presidential races even though the margins of. Third-party role is as a spoiler of elections as they never win. Problem was hillary didn"t in in the groups that were part of obama coalition, she wasn"t winning them at the same levels obama did and voter turnout decreased. 2016 election is known as a "white-lash", surge of opinion expressed by white americans by supporting trump and his ideals.
