Just my opinion, but I believe Trumps owes his win to the rust belt, blue collar displaced union workers that voted their own interests instead of the union stewards interests. Many of these were coal miners. I know a lot of these guys and will share Turkey with a few this week. Hillary proclaiming she would put coal out of business sealed her fate and gave Trump PA, OH, WV, KY, IN, MI and WI, IMO. There were other micro-issues at work like identity politics, but by in large these people vote with their wallet.
“my opinion, but I believe Trumps owes his win to the rust belt, blue collar displaced union workers that voted their own interests instead of the union stewards interests. “
I think so. This is how he won states that Obama won.
But, there were whites who switched from Romney to Hillary or no vote.
I read that it ended up that Trump and Romney got the same percentage of the white vote.
So what put Trump over the top was black and Hispanic votes.
Trump got marginally more of these votes, about 2-3% more than Romney.
But the big factor was. Hillary got 6-8% less than Obama and that helped do her in.
Don’t quote me on these specific numbers because I am relating something I read a bit ago.
I can’t say for sure that this is conformed, but I think this is the case. It will be interesting to see when authoritative numbers come out.