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Impossible 2016 election trivia question
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Date: October 16th, 2017 3:47 PM Author: Learning disabled blathering rehab Not even Charles XII will answer this correctly.
Rank the following Trump 2016 states by Trump's % margin of victory, ranked from highest to lowest. This is SUPER hard because Trump won big in all of them.
I will post the correct answer once Charles XII has answered.
South Carolina Mississippi Indiana Missouri South Dakota
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Date: October 16th, 2017 3:58 PM Author: razzle-dazzle fuchsia area boltzmann Indiana South Carolina Mississippi South Dakota Missouri |
Date: October 16th, 2017 3:51 PM Author: Chrome Home Indiana
Mississippi
South Carolina
Missouri
South Dakota
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Date: October 16th, 2017 3:54 PM Author: Big roast beef Mississippi South Carolina South Dakota Indiana Missouri |
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Date: October 16th, 2017 3:59 PM Author: Bisexual contagious azn abode South Dakota Indiana South Carolina Mississippi Missouri
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Date: October 16th, 2017 4:00 PM Author: razzle-dazzle fuchsia area boltzmann lol @ whoever doesnt put MO last (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3765955&forum_id=2#34456534) |
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Date: October 16th, 2017 4:08 PM Author: stirring feces incel Thought this would be a harder one. Only thing I'm not sure of is the order of MO and Indiana:
South Dakota
Indiana
Missouri
Mississippi
South Carolina |
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Date: October 16th, 2017 4:36 PM Author: Learning disabled blathering rehab JFC. You nailed it. Assuming you didn't cheat, how did you get it right?
It's interesting that in 08, Obama lost South Dakota by like 8%, MO by 0.1%, and won Indiana by 1%. The shift from 08 is remarkable. |
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Date: October 16th, 2017 4:51 PM Author: stirring feces incel Mississippi and South Carolina have high minority populations and that makes them a lot less swingy. The Republican advantage there is based on reliably getting an extremely high percentage of the white vote. Trump won handily in both, but he didn't have a lot of room to go up.
That's not the case with MO, SD, and IN, where Obama got a ton of white voters that were later deeply alienated by his administration. I knew SD would be #1 (both Dakotas were insanely pro-Trump, in the WV/Oklahoma tier), so the only question was how to order Missouri and Indiana. I wasn't sure on that one so I just went with Indiana because the Senate race was a blowout while Blunt's was pretty close. |
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Date: October 16th, 2017 4:56 PM Author: Learning disabled blathering rehab 180 reasoning. Yeah, IN and MO were super close to each other; separated by less than half a percentage point. Blount really underperformed in the MO Senate race, partly due to Kander being a fairly strong candidate and a good cultural fit with the state. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3765955&forum_id=2#34457055) |
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Date: October 16th, 2017 5:02 PM Author: razzle-dazzle fuchsia area boltzmann JFC. still want consolation lollipop (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3765955&forum_id=2#34457107) |
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Date: October 17th, 2017 1:30 PM Author: Learning disabled blathering rehab OK. Same question but for deep blue states.
Vermont Connecticut New Jersey Maryland Illinois |
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Date: October 17th, 2017 4:24 PM Author: stirring feces incel From largest Clinton margin to smallest:
Maryland Vermont Illinois New Jersey Connecticut
Less certain on this one. I know Illinois will be in the middle but VT/MD and CT/NJ can be in either order on each end. Gonna guess that CT was closer than NJ because of Christie's insane unpopularity, and I'll guess that Maryland went bluer than Vermont because of prole whytes loving Trump plus D.C.'s insane hatred for him. |
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Date: October 17th, 2017 6:02 PM Author: Learning disabled blathering rehab Ugh. You nailed it again. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3765955&forum_id=2#34465257) |
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Date: October 17th, 2017 6:04 PM Author: stirring feces incel Not sure you're right on that one. I checked after posting and it looks like Vermont still more blue than Maryland. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3765955&forum_id=2#34465268) |
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Date: October 17th, 2017 4:28 PM Author: purple travel guidebook From most GRID to least
Vermont Maryland Illinois New Jersey Connecticut ---
VT is still solidly blue, even if it drifted more GOP like all of New England, it was starting from a crazy point.
lots of residual GOP strength in downstate IL while Western MD too small.
Trump generally surged in New England, so putting CT ahead. |
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Date: October 17th, 2017 2:02 PM Author: Learning disabled blathering rehab BUMP for Charles XII (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3765955&forum_id=2#34463250) |
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Date: October 17th, 2017 4:30 PM Author: vibrant big-titted locus dog poop (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3765955&forum_id=2#34464467) |
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Date: October 17th, 2017 6:11 PM Author: Chest-beating adventurous friendly grandma how many write-ins did Bernie get in VT? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3765955&forum_id=2#34465317) |