Fascinating research finding:
“In the modern era
of presidential politics, no candidate has ever won the popular vote by more
than Hillary Clinton did this year, yet still managed to lose the electoral
college. In that sense, 2016 was a historic split: Donald Trump won the
presidency by as much as 74 electoral votes (depending on how Michigan ends up)
while losing the nationwide vote to Clinton by 1.7 million votes and counting.
But there's another
divide exposed by the election, which researchers at the Brookings Institution
recently discovered as they sifted the election returns. It has no bearing on
the election outcome, but it tells us something important about the state of
the country and its politics moving forward.
The divide is economic, and it is massive. According to the Brookings analysis, the less-than-500 counties that Clinton won nationwide combined to generate 64 percent of America's economic activity in 2015. The more-than-2,600 counties that Trump won combined to generate 36 percent of the country's economic activity last year.”
The divide is economic, and it is massive. According to the Brookings analysis, the less-than-500 counties that Clinton won nationwide combined to generate 64 percent of America's economic activity in 2015. The more-than-2,600 counties that Trump won combined to generate 36 percent of the country's economic activity last year.”