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1.5 What Happened (with the Voters)


1. How popular were Clinton and Trump compared to past candidates for president?
They are the least popular candidates on record. Trump is most disliked, and Clinton is second most disliked. The negative attitudes toward them led to campaigns where each candidate tried to make people hate the other candidate more rather than like him or herself more.
2. How much did minor party voting increase from 2012 to 2016?
It increased significantly, with Stein and Johnson receiving shares of votes that were over 3 times more than in 2012.
3. How did Clinton's negative attacks on Trump, combined with minor party candidates, end up hurting her?
These factors influenced people who preferred her to Trump to vote for the third party candidates instead.
4. How did Trump compare to Romney in 2012 among white voters?
Trump did a little worse than Romney, pulling in 58% of the white voters compared to Romney's 59%.
5. How did Clinton compare to Obama in 2012 among the different groups of nonwhite voters?
While Clinton still held the majority of all minority voters, she did worse than Obama had among all the nonwhite voter groups.
6. How did college educated voters vote in 2016?
They were more likely to vote for Clinton than for Trump.
7. What was unusual about the choices of both major parties in the 2016 election?
Both Clinton and Trump were already well known and came to be disliked by the end of the elections.
8. What's wrong with attributing Trump's victory to racism?
He actually lost white voters compared to Romney and maintained the few black and Latino Republican voters.
9. What's wrong with assumptions that Clinton was wildly popular among women?
While she did have significantly more white college educated female voters, she actually performed slightly worse with women overall compared to Obama.

article: https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/9/18/16305486/what-really-happened-in-2016

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