Exit polls show white evangelical voters voted in high numbers for Donald Trump, 81-16 percent, according to exit poll results. That’s the most they have voted for a Republican presidential candidate since 2004, when they overwhelmingly chose President George W. Bush by a margin of 78-21 percent. … Trump’s candidacy […] Read more »
Why Trump Won: Working-Class Whites
Donald J. Trump won the presidency by riding an enormous wave of support among white working-class voters. It was always a possibility, but it had looked highly unlikely. Hillary Clinton led in nearly every national poll — and in other surveys in the states worth the requisite 270 electoral votes. […] Read more »
The 5 biggest surprises in Tuesday’s results (besides the outcome)
Donald Trump defied polls and predictions of the Republican Party’s “death by demographics” by rolling past Hillary Clinton Tuesday night. The national network exit poll contained plenty of surprises that culminated in the biggest one of all: Trump’s victory. Here are the five results from the national exit poll that […] Read more »
How Trump Won, According To The Exit Polls
Donald Trump will be the next president of the United States. That’s remarkable for all sorts of reasons: He has no governmental experience, for example. And many times during his campaign, he said things that inflamed large swaths of Americans, whether it was talking about grabbing women’s genitals or calling […] Read more »
A traumatic campaign produces a shocking ending, with Trump victorious
Donald Trump’s campaign for president was rarely pretty and always implausible — at least that’s what the experts said. Trump always believed otherwise and in stunning fashion proved all the experts wrong. … Trump succeeded for many reasons, easier to describe in retrospect than many who view politics through traditional […] Read more »
Huge Margin Among Working-Class Whites Lifts Trump to a Stunning Election Upset
A revolution against politics as they are shook the country Tuesday, with working class whites venting their economic and cultural frustration by lifting insurgent candidate Donald Trump to the presidency. A record gender gap was part of the result, as were dramatic divisions by race, region, religion, urban/rural status and […] Read more »