Why did Clinton underperform in Rhode Island to such a great extent?
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« on: November 19, 2016, 02:44:36 PM »
« edited: November 19, 2016, 02:50:07 PM by TDAS04 »
She was the first Democratic presidential candidate since Mondale to lose a county.  I know it isn't the same as Massachusetts, but if the Bay State swung left, I'm surprised that Rhode Island swung as far right as it did.
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« Reply #1 on: November 19, 2016, 03:41:01 PM »
I was surprised too.  I always thought of Rhode Island as one of the states that would hold out in the event of a massive Republican landslide (alongside NY and Maryland).
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« Reply #2 on: November 19, 2016, 03:51:07 PM »
RI has a lot of working-class whites, which explains the swing to Trump, as well as why MA and RI split in both 1972 and 1980.
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« Reply #3 on: November 19, 2016, 05:27:55 PM »
Massachusetts swung left because of the Boston suburbs.
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« Reply #4 on: November 21, 2016, 01:36:34 PM »
Rhode Island has a lot of swing voters, and they swung hard to Trump.

It just happens to also have, in addition to that big block of swing voters, a ton of Democrats, and almost zero Republicans, so even though it's very swingy it's always solid D.
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