Supporters of President Trump like to point out that Hillary Clinton’s popular vote victory in 2016 really came down to California. She won nationally by 2.9 million votes and California alone by 4.3 million. Drop California into the Pacific Ocean, and Trump has that landslide he kept talking about.
But that coin also flips the other way. But for 807,000 votes in Texas, Clinton would have won there — and the presidency. Big states have a big effect.
Why rehash this fight? In part, certainly, so I can spend my weekend deleting angry emails. But also in part because of new data released by Gallup, showing how respondents in each state felt about Trump’s presidency over the course of 2018. CONT.
Philip Bump, Washington Post