Saturday, December 31, 2016

Red-state tide could flood into Minnesota


One of the most underreported stories of this year's election cycle was how darn close the race finished in Minnesota for Donald Trump.
Yes, Minnesota.
The president-elect did not win the North Star State on Election Day, but he was 44,000 votes shy in a state he was supposed to lose by a predicted 8 percentage points.

That near-miss shows how red Minnesota has become and illustrates how much the entire Great Lake Rust Belt has changed. Wisconsin, Indiana, Ohio and Pennsylvania all flipped their support from President Obama to Trump. 


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