Biden's 'Blue Wall' victories and demographics of his supporters
Arirang News
2020-11-09
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The last few votes are still being counted in the U.S. Presidential Election, but the numbers so far indicate more than 75 million people voted for Joe Biden.
And he was able to win in key three states that voted for President Trump four years ago.
Kim Do-yeon breaks down the demographic trends of the election.
The 2020 Presidential Election had the highest turnout of any U.S. presidential election in over a century, with an expected 150 million votes.
Joe Biden so far has received more than 75 million votes, and the votes are still being counted.
But winning states is more important than the total number of votes.
Three states were seen as the game changers in this election:
the rust belt states of Michigan and Pennsylvania, and the neighboring state of Wisconsin.
These three states were called "blue wall" states... meaning they hadn't voted for a Republican candidate for nearly 30 years until Trump took them in 2016.
And they're worth a combined 46 electoral votes.
Biden was able to win them all back.
While in Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, the spreads were less than 1-percent, Michigan showed strong support for Biden, who had a lead of 2.6 percentage points as of November 8th, local time.
Biden's victories in those states partly come from his gains in suburban areas.
For example, in Oakland County, Michigan, Hillary Clinton won the county by around 55,000 votes in 2016... but this year, Biden beat Trump by 110,000 votes.
In addition, the turnout increased in suburban areas nationally by around 18 percent while in rural areas, where Trump has deeper support, turnout only rose by 11 percent.
On a nationwide scale, Biden might have actually lost ground among black males.
NBC News reported that polls showed 80 percent of black men voted for Biden this year, but 82 percent voted for Hillary Clinton in 2016.
On the other hand, Biden gained ground from white voters.
According to Edison Research's polls, 36 percent of non-college-educated white voters backed Biden, that's 4 percentage points better than how Clinton did in 2016.
And Biden gained further ground from college-educated white voters as well.
While it'll take more time to see the complete demographics, the rise in turnout shows the importance that people have attached to this election.
Kim Do-yeon, Arirang News
The last few votes are still being counted in the U.S. Presidential Election, but the numbers so far indicate more than 75 million people voted for Joe Biden.
And he was able to win in key three states that voted for President Trump four years ago.
Kim Do-yeon breaks down the demographic trends of the election.
The 2020 Presidential Election had the highest turnout of any U.S. presidential election in over a century, with an expected 150 million votes.
Joe Biden so far has received more than 75 million votes, and the votes are still being counted.
But winning states is more important than the total number of votes.
Three states were seen as the game changers in this election:
the rust belt states of Michigan and Pennsylvania, and the neighboring state of Wisconsin.
These three states were called "blue wall" states... meaning they hadn't voted for a Republican candidate for nearly 30 years until Trump took them in 2016.
And they're worth a combined 46 electoral votes.
Biden was able to win them all back.
While in Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, the spreads were less than 1-percent, Michigan showed strong support for Biden, who had a lead of 2.6 percentage points as of November 8th, local time.
Biden's victories in those states partly come from his gains in suburban areas.
For example, in Oakland County, Michigan, Hillary Clinton won the county by around 55,000 votes in 2016... but this year, Biden beat Trump by 110,000 votes.
In addition, the turnout increased in suburban areas nationally by around 18 percent while in rural areas, where Trump has deeper support, turnout only rose by 11 percent.
On a nationwide scale, Biden might have actually lost ground among black males.
NBC News reported that polls showed 80 percent of black men voted for Biden this year, but 82 percent voted for Hillary Clinton in 2016.
On the other hand, Biden gained ground from white voters.
According to Edison Research's polls, 36 percent of non-college-educated white voters backed Biden, that's 4 percentage points better than how Clinton did in 2016.
And Biden gained further ground from college-educated white voters as well.
While it'll take more time to see the complete demographics, the rise in turnout shows the importance that people have attached to this election.
Kim Do-yeon, Arirang News
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