“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.
It was definitely multi-faceted. Entering the season, one thing I hoped Trump would do is re-align the electorate. It doesn’t serve the interest of the people when large blocks vote against their own interests. Unions workers voting for Dems, Blacks voting for Dems, etc.
To a large extent, I think Trump did that.