![]() ![]() It’s possible Stein and Johnson together may have cost Clinton Florida, Wisconsin, and Michigan. The small margin makes other factors more salient, including higher voting tallies for the third party candidates like Jill Stein and Gary Johnson and the first-time implementation of the new voter ID law in Wisconsin. The difference: Stronger third party voting and turnout.įorty-three percent of Americans registered to vote did not vote in the presidential election overall. Using Wisconsin as an example again, Trump slightly exceeded Mitt Romney’s totals but Hillary Clinton was well under Barack Obama’s, even though fewer voters cast ballots overall. ![]() Maybe they would have stayed home or picked another third-party candidate, not Clinton). In all three states, third-party candidate voting was up (although it can be perilous to guess which candidate, say, Jill Stein voters would have picked if she wasn’t in the race. Turnout was down dramatically in one of those three states, Wisconsin, which controversially implemented voter ID for the first time, but more people voted overall in Michigan and Pennsylvania when compared to 2012. The same is true in New Hampshire, where Clinton has a slim lead.) (As of November 11, the race in Michigan was so close the Associated Press still hasn’t called the race. The combined margin for Trump in those three states, which gave him the electoral college? In the end, a trio of formerly blue states were most critical to Trump: Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania. ![]() Hidden within Donald Trump’s historic redrawing of the rust-belt electoral map is this reality: A relatively small number of people handed the election to President-Elect Trump. The Republican Party of Wisconsin took this photo and shared it on Facebook to show the crowd of people who attended a Trump rally in Wisconsin. ![]()
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