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US election results: Why the most accurate bellwether counties were wrong
BBC News ^ | November 27, 2020 | By Stephen Starr

Posted on 11/27/2020 6:48:06 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

America's most accurate bellwether counties, regions that have a reputation for accurately picking the president, got the presidential election completely wrong. Here's why.

On a cold, wind-swept November afternoon two weeks after election day, the crowds that thronged the beaches of Ottawa County all summer long are but a distant memory.

A majority of voters here had backed the eventual winner of presidential elections every time since 1964. Until this year.

With a total turnout of 78%, Donald Trump won Ottawa County by a margin of 61% to 38%, improving his 2016 return by four points.

"I think people were pretty happy with some of the things he's done, what he's been able to accomplish," says Mark Coppeler, a leading local Republican who was re-elected county commissioner last month. "Especially considering there's a lot of things that has been done that don't get reported at all."

Ottawa County wasn't the only swing county to get the outcome wrong this time around.

In fact, of the 19 pivot counties across America to correctly pick the president every time over the past 10 election cycles, only one - Clallam County in Washington state - saw a majority back Joe Biden for president.

What's more, in this year's election voters in leading bellwether counties didn't just come out for Donald Trump marginally; they backed him in droves.

The 2020 election appears to illustrate that the partisanship that's defined politics in Washington for years has now spread to small-town America. "People are more likely to identify with a party than we've seen before," says Harrison Kreisberg of BlueLabs Analytics, a polling firm that works with progressive and Democratic interests.

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: election2020; elections; fraud; mailin; vote
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1 posted on 11/27/2020 6:48:06 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Because....fraud.


2 posted on 11/27/2020 6:49:02 AM PST by rbg81 (Truth is stranger than fiction)
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3 posted on 11/27/2020 6:50:17 AM PST by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Shameful globalist press has no morals.


4 posted on 11/27/2020 6:51:10 AM PST by RideForever (We were born to be tested)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

FRAUD

Pure and simple.
5 posted on 11/27/2020 6:52:17 AM PST by HamiltonJay
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6 posted on 11/27/2020 6:55:09 AM PST by Bratch
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Because Trump was a different kind of president and he cracked the country in a new way, that had not been applicable in those prior races with more traditional candidates?


7 posted on 11/27/2020 7:02:30 AM PST by babble-on
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Hey, BBC, maybe, just maybe, the bellwether counties got it right (as usual) and the thoroughly fraudulent presidential election got it wrong. Didn’t think of that, did you?


8 posted on 11/27/2020 7:13:46 AM PST by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: Bratch

Maybe if these were printed out and journalists were locked up with them and not allowed food or drink until they could pass a test proving that they had at least READ them... (I can dream, can’t I?)


9 posted on 11/27/2020 7:17:14 AM PST by A_perfect_lady (The greatest wealth is to live content with little. -Plato)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

They weren’t wrong. Garbage in, garbage out.


10 posted on 11/27/2020 7:58:07 AM PST by mikey_hates_everything
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To: rbg81

Exactly. Instead of concluding that the complete invalidation of the 50-year old bellwether pattern indicates something wrong with the election results, they dismiss the bellwether pattern itself as a fluke.


11 posted on 11/27/2020 8:23:56 AM PST by nwrep
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To: Bratch

Thank you.


12 posted on 11/27/2020 8:24:29 AM PST by nwrep
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To: babble-on

NO. it is because of fraud. The results are not the real results.


13 posted on 11/27/2020 8:24:55 AM PST by nwrep
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These are the real results. Biden won clearly. Fraud is just a tool that only Democrats can use, and they will use it more prolifically in the future. Republicans still can win barely, only if we get an overwhelming majority, say more than 80% or 90%, wherever we still control enough of the vote counting.


14 posted on 11/27/2020 8:29:08 AM PST by dufekin
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To: Bratch

nice graphics explaining sidney’s electoral fraud charges, thanks


15 posted on 11/27/2020 8:29:41 AM PST by SteveH
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Our GOVT is a LIE! Our GOVT participated in open FRAUD and will not investigate since it will also implicate them! Our GOVT is the main wing of the deep state’! It is all out in the open NOW! BUT How do WE THE PEOPLE deal with it! How do we - people who follow the rule of law, deal with our GOVT which is an illegal enterprise NO DIFFERENT than the mafia, gangs, antifa, communist and socialist thugs - they only have hidden it until the despiration of TRUMPs MASSIVE landslide had to come out in the 11th hour and show their disgusting dirty hands!

How do we deal with it NOW! Seems like the colonist had to ask the same questions in 1700s to save their ideas to form America! But we have now LOST that AMERICA! GET IT - WE HAVE LOST AMERICA! DO WE STAND HERE AND JUST TAKE THAT! FOR HOW LONG? THIS IS A BIG FIGGING DEAL FOLKS!


16 posted on 11/27/2020 8:34:06 AM PST by ldish (TRUTH & FREEDOM DIED ON 11/4/20! SCORCH THE GOVT-TRUMP RELEASE ALL FILES)
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To: rbg81

Because the Democrats were cheating. Next question?


17 posted on 11/27/2020 8:36:23 AM PST by JustaCowgirl (A vote for Joe Biden is a vote for empty smirking pantsuit Kamala Harris for President)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Scanning, I only saw a repeat of the highly improbable claim that they all got it wrong. I didn’t see an “explanation” as to WHY they got it wrong.


18 posted on 11/27/2020 8:55:11 AM PST by libertylover (Remember: Deep State hated Jesus too.)
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To: HartleyMBaldwin

BBC is hard left, while Guardian is full communist..


19 posted on 11/27/2020 10:45:19 AM PST by Bikkuri (Joe Biden: "Abraham Lincoln is the most racist president ever.")
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To: Bikkuri

After being run out of Africa and Asia the United States is one of the few places where the British can still meddle.
There is a good reason we had to run them out at gunpoint.

I make mud in the milk of the BBC’s mother ptui ptui.


20 posted on 11/27/2020 11:14:53 AM PST by hank ernade
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