These former Obama strongholds sealed the election for Trump
via The Washington Post Donald Trump delivered on his promise to flip the Democrats’ electoral hold on the industrial Midwest. Across swing states — and others previously thought to be…
Two swing states show why Clinton lost
via The Washington Post In a stunning upset, Donald Trump won the presidency early Wednesday morning, as 10 electoral votes from Wisconsin put him over the required 270. How? Trump…
2016 Electoral Map and Presidential Election Results: Republican Donald Trump Wins
Republican Donald J. Trump is elected the 45th US President. Candidate Electoral Votes* Popular Vote** (% ) Donald Trump (Republican) 279 59.43MM votes (47.5%) Hillary Clinton (Democrat) 218 59.63MM votes…
2016 Senate Map
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From Pot to Guns, State Ballot Initiatives Are Bellwether of National Mood
via NBC News As California voters head to the polls they’ll face a slate of 17 initiatives ranging from the death penalty to legalizing recreational pot. It’s a huge slate…
2016 Election Results: Viewing Guides, Live Blogs and Results
Viewing Guides: Politico: How to watch Election Day like a pro 538: An Hour-By-Hour Guide To Election Night CNN: 7 things to watch for on election night NBC: A Viewer’s…
These 127 counties could point to the election winner tonight
via The Washington Post Of the 10 states to swing between parties in the past four elections, five states have voted for the winner in every election since 2000: Colorado,…
Google Trends: Searching for issues around voting on Nov 8th
via Google News Lab Tomorrow, as Americans go to the polls, more than 650 journalism students, 450 journalists, 250 media organizations, two nonprofits and seven technology companies will come together…
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16 battlegrounds that will decide the election
via Politico There are 200 million registered voters in the United States, and it’s a good bet that more than 120 million of them will cast votes in the presidential…
2016 Electoral Map Predictions: 1 day to the election
The 2016 Presidential election is just 1 day away and nearly all poll watchers and trackers show that Clinton should be able to get the 270 electoral votes needed to…
These are the 18 state legislative chambers to watch that could change hands in 2016
via Daily Kos America’s historic presidential election between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump has rightly dominated the headlines, but voters will weigh in on crucial battles for state legislatures across…
What one swing state can teach us about political polarization in America
via The Washington Post Precincts — which can include a few hundred to a few thousand voters — make it easier to spot this urban-vs.-rural disparity. These detailed neighborhood by…
How Large Is the Divide Between Red and Blue America?
via The New York Times As of 2012, the divide was pretty wide. Half of all voters were living in a county that President Obama or Mitt Romney, the Republican…
Gender inequality goes right to the top
Via Economist NEXT week, America could elect its first female president. Around the world, women rarely get the top job. The World Economic Forum, a think-tank, has tallied data on…
2016 Poll Closing Times and 2012 AP Call Times Map
Nov. 8, 2016 poll closings times map via DailyKos Note that all times on the above map are Eastern, not local, but you can download large-format maps for each U.S.…
After decades of Republican victories, here’s how California became a blue state again
via the LA Times California hasn’t always been a lock for the Democratic presidential nominee. Republicans won the state in nearly every presidential election between 1952 and 1988. Ahead of…
Clinton and Trump: Who leads in Google Searches
If Google searches were votes, then Donald Trump would be on his way to becoming the new president. more from google trends Most Searched Right Now: click for interactive map…
Election maps are telling you big lies about small things
via Washington Post In 2012, about the same number of votes were cast in these 160 counties as were cast in the rest of the country. But, your run-of-the-mill election…
The path to victory is right here in this map
via CNN With Election Day on the horizon, the candidates and their top surrogates are logging thousands of sky miles as they barnstorm across the country, making closing arguments and…
Places Most Unsettled by Rapid Demographic Change Are Drawn to Donald Trump
via The Wall Street Journal Small towns in the Midwest have diversified more quickly than almost any part of the U.S. since the start of an immigration wave at the…
2016 Electoral Map Predictions: 7 days to the election
The 2016 Presidential election is just 15 days away and Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton is currently the favorite over Republican Donald Trump. Nearly all poll watchers and trackers show that…
Hillary Clinton Leads by 7 Points in Pennsylvania Poll
via The New York Times If Donald J. Trump has a path to the presidency with big gains among white working-class voters, it has to run through Pennsylvania — a…
Nearly 1,000 Healthcare.gov counties will have just one insurer next year
via Vox Obamacare’s marketplaces aren’t just struggling with higher premiums — they’ll also have significantly less competition next year. The number of counties with just one health insurer selling on…
Latest Upshot Poll Shows Trump With a Lead in Florida
via The New York Times Donald J. Trump has slowly but surely improved his standing in state and national polls since the final presidential debate. A New York Times Upshot/Siena…
The Impact of Obamacare, in Four Maps
via The New York Times The share of people without health insurance keeps falling. Since 2013, when the major provisions of Obamacare went into effect, the uninsured rate has fallen…
Donald Trump has a path to victory again thanks to Florida
via Washington Post There’s been some movement toward Donald Trump in both national and swing state polling over the past week. Trump’s problem is that, at least as of today,…
State-by-State Map: How the Clinton and Trump Camps Spent $595 Million on TV, Radio Ads
Via Advertising Age Mr. Trump had a change of heart starting around August — and there’s been a lot of talk from the Trump camp lately about cranking up ad…
An Historical Rarity: A Four-Party Presidential Election
Via Larry J. Sabato’s Crystal Ball Third parties, such as Ralph Nader’s Green Party candidacy in 2000, tend to affect presidential elections every decade or two. But not since Ross…
Cook Political Report: Democrats Poised to Pick Up 10-20 House Seats
Via Cook Political Report Less than two weeks from Election Day, Democrats are on track to pick up between 10 and 20 House seats, a slight uptick in their fortunes…
538: One North Carolina County Shows The Cracks In The GOP’s Defenses
Via FiveThirtyEight.com Gaston County is made up of cities and towns filled with modest homes and businesses. Most of its roughly 200,000 residents are white, and more than half of…
SurveyMonkey’s interactive map: Who is winning the 2016 presidential election?
SurveyMonkey has launched an interactive map. The map can be filtered to show various voter screens: Likely voters Registered voters Likely voters – turnout adj. Millennials (ages 18-34) Seniors (ages…
Kottke: How the Cretaceous coastline of North America affects US presidential elections
kottke.org draws attention to a post from Deep Sea News that highlights the connection between the Cretaceous coastline (100 million years ago), slavery-era cotton production and presidential voting. That’s a…
Vox: The bad map we see every presidential election
Vox put together a video showing the downsides of the traditional geographically accurate electoral map.
Naples News: Hillsborough: The Florida county that may decide this election
The Naples News takes a deeper look at Hillsborough county Hillsborough County is a model in miniature of the United States (though maybe not that miniature. At 1,266 square miles,…
Medium: The Midwest Isn’t Gerrymandered Because “All The Democrats Live In Big Cities”.
Medium brings the latest article on gerrymandering and tackles the geographic clustering component head on. Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin are four Midwestern states that Barack Obama won in 2012.…
USA Today's The Deciders: Clark County, Ohio – Reviving Rust Belt city in Ohio not convinced by Donald Trump's message
USA TODAY takes a close look at blue-collar voters in Clark County, Ohio. Clark is similar to many counties in the country’s industrial heartland, where farmers worked the fields outside…
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Ad Age: The States Where Clinton and Trump Are Advertising the Most Until Election Day
Advertising Age provides another update on where Clinton and Trump are focusing their advertising budgets and as with previous updates the bulk of the spending is focused on large swing…
2016 Electoral Map Predictions: 15 days to the election
The 2016 Presidential election is just 15 days away and Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton is currently the favorite over Republican Donald Trump. Nearly all poll watchers and trackers show that…
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Early Voting Update – 10/23/2016
Early voting is underway and nearly 6 million votes have already been cast. via NBCNews.com Washington Post: In several key states, the early vote has shifted heavily to the Democrats…
CNN's Critical counties: Jefferson County, Colorado, underscores Trump's rocky chances
CNN calls out Jefferson County, Colorado, home to the populous Denver metro area. If Donald Trump is going to win Colorado, he is not going to be able to do…
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USA Today's The Deciders: Union County, Iowa – If people in any place yearn to be made great again, it’s in rural America
USA TODAY takes a close look at Union County, Iowa to check in on rural voters. While rural voters are generally Republican, Union County, Iowa has been a bellwether and…
Pew Research Center: Mapping the Latino Electorate by State and Congressional District
The Pew Research Center has put together interactive maps showing the Latino electorate by state and congressional district. A record 27.3 million Latinos will be eligible to vote in the…
USA Today's The Deciders: Chester County, Pennsylvania – A suburban tide against Trump could sink his election bid
USA TODAY takes a close look Chester County, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Philadelphia and home to the type of suburban voter that Donald Trump needs to win to have a…
The New Blue and Red: Educational Split Is Replacing the Culture War
The New York Times takes a look at the educational divide between Democratic and Republican voters, which shows an opportunity for Hillary Clinton to pick up voters in the South…
USA Today's The Deciders: Maricopa County, Arizona – In an Arizona county, anger at Trump spurs Latinos to vote
USA TODAY takes a close look Maricopa County, Arizona, home to Phoenix and more than 40% Latino. Perhaps no place illustrates the lackluster voter turnout among Latinos better than Maricopa…
Washington Post: Everything you ever wanted to know about the U.S. foreign assistance budget
The Washington Post dives into the $42 billion dollars budgeted for foreign assistance in 2017. we have laid out where the $42.4 billion will go in 2017. The money comes…
USA Today's The Deciders: Wayne County, Michigan – Trump, Clinton each face challenges courting African-American vote in Detroit
USA TODAY takes a close look Wayne County, Michigan, home to Detrout and a majority African-American county. Democratic votes by African Americans are a key reason why Michigan has been…
What This 2012 Map Can Tell Us About the 2016 Election
The New York Times examines the similarity between the 2012 election results and where gay marriage accounts for a higher percentage of all marriages. Nate Yeah, the gay marriage map…
CNN’s Critical counties: Vigo, Indiana, knows how to pick ’em
CNN calls out Vigo County, Indiana, which has voted for the presidential winner since 1956. Vigo County, Indiana, is used to getting its way in presidential elections. Since 1956, no…