- Around 9% of voters who supported Barack Obama in 2012 crossed party lines to endorse Donald Trump in 2016. A new study (n>64,000) suggests that among white voters, vote switching was more likely to be associated with attitudes toward race and immigration than economic factors. https://news.ucr.edu/articles/2019/07/23/what-was-behind-vote-switching-2016-election 3971 comments science
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- Why I Fear a Moderate Democratic Nominee - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/01/why-i-fear-a-moderate-candidate/605608/ 201 comments
- Why Trump Won in 2024: Inflation, an Information Breakdown, and Democrats Losing Working-Class Voters | Teen Vogue https://www.teenvogue.com/story/why-trump-won-2024 86 comments
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