{"id":14731,"date":"2016-11-11T07:11:16","date_gmt":"2016-11-11T07:11:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=14731"},"modified":"2016-11-11T07:11:16","modified_gmt":"2016-11-11T07:11:16","slug":"how-8-key-counties-voted-in-the-presidential-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/elections\/how-8-key-counties-voted-in-the-presidential-race.html","title":{"rendered":"How 8 key counties voted in the presidential race"},"content":{"rendered":"

How 8 key counties voted in the presidential race<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

How 8 key counties voted in the presidential race:-\u00a0<\/strong>The USA TODAY Network spent time in eight counties in eight states, exploring the key electoral themes that could decide this fall\u2019s election. The series looked at Waukesha County in Wisconsin, Chester County in Pennsylvania, Wayne County in Michigan, Maricopa County in Arizona, Union County in Iowa, Larimer County in Colorado, Clark County in Ohio and Hillsborough County in Florida.<\/span><\/p>\n

Rural white voters surged, bolstering Republican contender Donald Trump to the presidency Tuesday, while a lack of enthusiasm for Hillary Clinton helped make the difference in the 2016 presidential campaign.<\/span><\/p>\n

Those trends were evident in the eight counties tracked by the USA TODAY Network in the weeks leading up to the election.<\/span><\/p>\n

Many had predicted Trump would have weak support among women, blacks and young voters, but those concerns proved to be largely unfounded, exit poll data shows.<\/span><\/p>\n

Maricopa County, Ariz.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

(97% reporting)<\/span><\/p>\n

2016: Trump 49.3%, Clinton 45.6%<\/span>
\n2012: Romney 54.3%, Obama 43.6%<\/span><\/p>\n

This traditionally conservative county hasn’t voted for the Democratic candidate in more than 60 years, and this year was no exception.<\/span><\/p>\n

To be sure, the margin of victory for the Republican candidate narrowed as a Latino backlash against Donald Trump’s anti-immigration stance apparently had an effect.<\/span><\/p>\n

But turnout in Maricopa was down considerably, undermining Clinton’s chance to gain traction statewide. Romney won this county with 749,885 votes to Obama’s 602,288 in 2012. Trump prevailed 540,943 to 500,424 and won the state.<\/span><\/p>\n

Lower turnout nationwide worked in Trump’s favor, pollsters said.<\/span><\/p>\n

Polls appear to have overestimated Latinos’ share of the electorate, said Joshua Dyck, political science professor and co-director of the Center for Public Opinion at the University of Massachusetts-Lowell.<\/span><\/p>\n

Union County, Iowa<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

(100% reporting)<\/span><\/p>\n

2016: Trump 60.5%, Clinton 33%<\/span>
\n2012: Obama 51%, Romney 47.2%<\/span><\/p>\n

Rural white voters flocked to the ballot box to back Trump in Union County. Although sparsely populated, this county illustrated Trump’s nationwide strength among rural whites.<\/span><\/p>\n

“It looks like they were stimulated to vote,” said Michael Traugott, professor at the University of Michigan’s Center for Political Studies.<\/span><\/p>\n

This county swung a stunning 31 percentage points. It delivered 3,521 votes for Trump, or 25.2% greater than Romney’s haul.<\/span><\/p>\n

Voters there were vocal about the need for change.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI think we need it,\u201d Sharon Hower, a retiree of Creston\u2019s Bunn-O-Matic plant, told The Des Moines Register during the recent visit. \u201cI don\u2019t agree with everything Mr. Trump says, but I think he deserves a chance.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Waukesha County, Wis.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

(100% reporting)<\/span><\/p>\n

2016: Trump 60%, Clinton 33.3%<\/span>
\n2012: Romney 66.7%, Obama 32.3%<\/span><\/p>\n

Concerns that Trump might not perform well in the Milwaukee suburbs played out to a degree. He lost ground in Waukesha, a traditional base of Republican support, but not to his Democratic challenger.<\/span><\/p>\n

Clinton’s failure to capitalize on Trump’s slipping support was damaging to her statewide prospects.<\/span><\/p>\n

Nearly 7% of voters in this suburban Milwaukee area cast ballots for third-party candidates, with 3.7% backing Libertarian Gary Johnson and 0.7% backing the Green Party’s Jill Stein.<\/span><\/p>\n

Chester County, Pa.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

(100% reporting)<\/span><\/p>\n

2016: Clinton 51.8%, Trump 42.8%<\/span>
\n2012: Romney 49.4%, Obama 49.2%<\/span><\/p>\n

Despite Trump’s victory in Pennsylvania, Chester County voters snubbed Trump, who lost nearly 7 percentage points from Romney’s 2012 performance.<\/span><\/p>\n

Chester County has the highest share of college-educated adults in Pennsylvania, and those voters were expected to shift in Clinton’s favor. It happened in Chester, but nationally, it didn’t materialize.<\/span><\/p>\n

That had expected to be key to a Clinton victory: white, college-educated voters, an estimated 23% of the electorate four years ago.<\/span><\/p>\n

Wayne County, Mich.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

(85% reporting)<\/span><\/p>\n

2016: Clinton 66.3%, Trump 29.3%<\/span>
\n2012: Obama 72.8%, Romney 26.1%<\/span><\/p>\n

With Detroit as its epicenter, Wayne County is typically a bastion of liberal support for Democrats. But with most of the votes counted, it appears Clinton lost significant ground here.<\/span><\/p>\n

It was a devastating outcome for Clinton, who lost tens of thousands of crucial Wayne County votes in a statewide race that appears headed toward Trump’s column by a razor-thin margin.<\/span><\/p>\n

The key reason might have been a lack of enthusiasm for Clinton among black voters, who had supported Obama in huge numbers.<\/span><\/p>\n

Detroit resident Robert Sallie, 58, who has worked in food service for Detroit Public Schools for 23 years, voted Tuesday but didn’t like his options.<\/span><\/p>\n

“I’m not so sure about these candidates,” he said. “There’s just no concern for the people that’s lower class. It’s not just rich, upper-class people who make the country.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Larimer County, Colo.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

(68% reporting)<\/span><\/p>\n

2016: Clinton 47.5%, Trump 42.3%<\/span>
\n2008: Obama 51.5%, Romney 45.7%<\/span><\/p>\n

Clinton largely held Obama’s margin of victory in this historically purple county, home to Colorado State University.<\/span><\/p>\n

But any hope of a rush to the ballot box by this county’s significant population of millennials proved to be a mirage. Although Clinton prevailed statewide, the lack of enthusiasm for her campaign among young voters was hard to overcome.<\/span><\/p>\n

“Barack Obama was clearly an aspirational candidate and his first campaign about hope and change was a stimulus to young people to turn out,” Traugott said. “I don’t think that anybody would claim that Hillary Clinton personally was an aspirational candidate. There was some hope that as the first female candidate with a serious chance of whining she would stimulate turnout among women, but that didn’t turn out to be case.”<\/span><\/p>\n

In downtown Fort Collins on Tuesday, Chase Ballton, 25, said he voted for Trump not in support of the candidate\u2019s messages or his policy. Instead, he said he voted for Trump in hopes that combined opposition against the billionaire reality TV star might actually \u201creunite\u201d Democrats and Republicans after years of partisan gridlock in Washington.<\/span><\/p>\n

That shared disdain against Trump, he said, could be the answer to the country\u2019s woes.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s no stopping Hillary,\u201d he said. \u201c\u2026 The House and the Senate can always trump Trump.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Clark County, Ohio<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

(100% reporting)<\/span><\/p>\n

2016: Trump 57%, Clinton 37.6%<\/span>
\n2012: Romney 49.5%, Obama 48.7%<\/span><\/p>\n

With a large population of blue-collar white voters, this county’s presidential tally was decided by only 523 votes in 2012.<\/span><\/p>\n

It wasn’t even close in 2016, reflecting Trump’s tremendous surge among working-class white voters that lifted him to a comfortable statewide victory and propelled him into the White House.<\/span><\/p>\n

The same strong performances were seen in other traditionally industrial states, including Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania.<\/span><\/p>\n

Hillsborough County, Fla.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

(100% reporting)<\/span><\/p>\n

2016: Clinton 51.5%, Trump 44.7%<\/span>
\n2012: Obama 52.7%, Romney 46%<\/span><\/p>\n

Viewed as a microcosm of America \u2014 with urban, suburban and rural areas and a wide mix of cultural backgrounds \u2014 this county barely changed over the last four years.<\/span><\/p>\n

But its track record of choosing the next president did. Hillsborough had picked the winner in 19 of the last 20 presidential elections, until Tuesday.<\/span><\/p>\n

The number of people casting ballots rose by about 52,000, but the polarizing divide remained.<\/span><\/p>\n

In that sense, perhaps, Hillsborough is indeed still a reflection of America.<\/span><\/p>\n

Source:-\u00a0http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/elections\/2016\/11\/09\/key-counties-presidential-election-donald-trump-hillary-clinton\/93534440\/<\/span><\/p>\n

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