How did Minnesota stay blue

[morgankingsley]

If Trump wins a second term, I expect that Minnesota will be one state from Democrat to Republican

[morgankingsley]

What is crazy is that Trump did win more districts in it. He won five of the eight districts

[morgankingsley]

Evan McMullin

I did the math, if mcmullin had not run and those votes went to trump, trump would win Minnesota by 8000 votes

[morgankingsley]

Evan McMullin

I did the math, if mcmullin had not run and those votes went to trump, trump would win Minnesota by 8000 votes

Trump still would have lost Minnesota without McMullin on the ballot...

1). Not everyone who voted for McMullin would have voted for Trump
2). Many people who voted for McMullin wouldn't have voted at all
3). Voting for a fringe right-wing independent indicated an extreme unwillingness to vote for Trump.

While all three might be true, #1 wouldn't be statistically relevant.  They MIGHT have stayed home, but the vast, vast majority of McMullin voters would have preferred Trump to Clinton, IMO.  They also seem like the types who would be unwilling to sit an election out ... excuse my stereotyping, but your Nader voter who might have stayed home isn't exactly my image of your Movement Conservative Warrior who voted for McMullin.  They're votin'.

I said IF it happened, not that it would happen

[morgankingsley]

The irony of all is that MN is one of the whitest states in America.

Northern MN also has a big german population, which is typically Democratic too.

Loolooololoololol

Missed this fiery hot take.  Whitest state? NOPE. Got black refugees from Chicago (thanks Daleys!) and lots of Vietnamese, Hmong and Somalian refugees with a sprinkling of other random stuff.



As for Germans? Not northern as much as southern/central MN:

While you're right on almost all aspects, the original poster did say "one of the whitest" not "the whitest" indicating more white states