4 ms·

Wait is that true? Is a democratic president ever going to be elected again?

• danso 6y ago
  Of the 6 states that gained an electoral vote [0]: - Biden's 6-point loss in Texas [1] was the slimmest margin since 1996 (and 92 and 96 featured Ross Perot, a strong third-party conservative); the margins for 2012 and 2016 were 16% and 9%, respectively. - North Carolina went for Trump by just 1.5%, and has had similar slim margins since Obama's 0.3% victory in 2008 [2] - Colorado and Oregon both went blue by ~15% margins - Montana has been reliably red. - Florida has become more and more reliably red, but not as much as Ohio (which lost a vote) has. More guaranteed-blue states (CA, NY, IL) lost votes than guaranteed-red (WV), but this isn't a seismic, immutable shift by any means. [0] https://www.wbur.org/npr/983082132/census-to-release-1st-results-that-shift-electoral-college-house-seats https://www.wbur.org/npr/983082132/census-to-release-1st-res... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_United_States_presidential_election_in_Texas https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_United_States_presidentia...