politicallefty
Junior Chimp
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« on: July 31, 2017, 04:05:56 AM » |
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That's a good question. Both states trended to Hillary and Washington actually swung to Hillary. To be honest, I didn't study this topic too closely, but I do have some questions.
I'm not surprised that Hillary swung King County her way (basically, one-third of the state voted for Obama by about 40 points in 2012 and Hillary pushed that margin to nearly 50 points in 2016), but the Tri-Cities in Eastern Washington was quite surprising. For those from Washington, is that a result of the relatively high Latino population? For a Democrat that got crushed in rural America, Hillary seemed to do pretty well in Eastern Washington overall. In the Pacific NW, it was SW Washington and NW Oregon that swung hard to Trump.
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