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Bellwether Counties Nearly Wiped Out In 2020 Election
WSJ ^ | 11-13-20 | John McCormick

Posted on 11/13/2020 8:12:43 AM PST by TrumpRedJoe

America has become so polarized that presidential bellwether counties—those that consistently back the national winner, switching between parties in the process—are nearing extinction. From 1980 through 2016, 19 of the nation’s more than 3,000 counties voted for the eventual president in every election.

Only one of them, Washington state’s Clallam County, backed President-elect Joe Biden last week. Other counties that had been bellwethers all the way back to the 1950s ended their runs by backing President Trump instead of the Democrat.

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TOPICS: Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bellwether; election
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1 posted on 11/13/2020 8:12:43 AM PST by TrumpRedJoe
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To: TrumpRedJoe

Not so fast there, WSJ. It ain’t over.


2 posted on 11/13/2020 8:14:32 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom ("Inside Every Progressive Is A Totalitarian Screaming To Get Out" -- David Horowitz)
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To: TrumpRedJoe

Amazing isn’t it... how could they have got it so wrong... we’ll never know.


3 posted on 11/13/2020 8:14:36 AM PST by Skywise
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To: TrumpRedJoe

Amazing how controlling the votes in three or four cities can change the vote totals and an entire direction for a country.

Exactly what the founders of this nation did NOT want.


4 posted on 11/13/2020 8:14:49 AM PST by woweeitsme
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To: TrumpRedJoe

So, because Trump “lost,” it’s the bellwether counties that are wrong, not the election results?


5 posted on 11/13/2020 8:16:34 AM PST by Yo-Yo ( is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: TrumpRedJoe
18 out of 19 of the best predictive counties, 94.7%, voted for President Trump. Massive, massive vote fraud took place for Creepy Joe Biden.
6 posted on 11/13/2020 8:16:44 AM PST by wildcard_redneck (COVID lockdowns are the EstablishmentÂ’s attack on the middle class and our Republic)
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To: TrumpRedJoe

Smells kind fishy doesn’t it?

Ohio voted overwhelmingly for Trump, hell we even flipped 2 counties red.


7 posted on 11/13/2020 8:16:45 AM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: mylife

Ohio has a Republican governor.

All Elections Matter, folks, not just the big ones.


8 posted on 11/13/2020 8:17:29 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: TrumpRedJoe

Because the opposing sides are having less and less in common.
Once upon a time we had shared values and just differed in how we wanted to go about achieving them.
But those shared values are gone and the USA is polarized.
It is hard to switch from party to party in pursuit of shared goals when you no longer agree as to what those goals are.


9 posted on 11/13/2020 8:18:14 AM PST by Little Ray (The Left and Right no longer have anything in common. A House divided against itself cannot stand.)
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To: dfwgator

RINO Gov


10 posted on 11/13/2020 8:18:21 AM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: mylife

Still, no shenanigans in Ohio.


11 posted on 11/13/2020 8:19:07 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: TrumpRedJoe

Maybe in the near future we can have elections where 99.96% or even 100% vote in favor of one candidate! LOL


12 posted on 11/13/2020 8:19:55 AM PST by Red6
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To: mylife

Funny how everyone blames Arizona on McCain, and yet Ohio is Kasich country, and Trump killed it there.


13 posted on 11/13/2020 8:19:55 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: TrumpRedJoe

Did they factor in the fraudulent votes that skewed the results?


14 posted on 11/13/2020 8:20:28 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: dfwgator

Problem in Ohio is most down ballot races have no R competition, and most of the R’s are part of the old D machine.


15 posted on 11/13/2020 8:20:55 AM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: TrumpRedJoe

The Bellweather counties weren’t wrong. Trump won.


16 posted on 11/13/2020 8:22:39 AM PST by P-Marlowe (Freep mail me if you want to be on my Fingerstyle Acoustic Guitar Ping List)
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To: TrumpRedJoe

I’ve looked at the results for a number of the states (and their counties) and I can still see the same odd pattern: Trump improves his vote totals at a good to in some cases very good rate, so his overall support certainly did not falter or crater, but Biden comes in and gets numbers way far better than Hillary or Obama in order to win.


17 posted on 11/13/2020 8:22:44 AM PST by OttawaFreeper ("The Gardens was founded by men-sportsmen-who fought for their country" Conn Smythe, 1966)
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To: TrumpRedJoe

If anything, this is more proof that the election was fraudulent.


18 posted on 11/13/2020 8:24:06 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents|Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: OttawaFreeper

but Biden comes in and gets numbers way far better than Hillary or Obama, without even campaigning.


19 posted on 11/13/2020 8:24:29 AM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: TrumpRedJoe

This story proves that the election was rigged.

It demonstrates that the legal voters were/are supporting Trump.


20 posted on 11/13/2020 8:24:29 AM PST by old curmudgeon (There is no situation so terrible, so disgraceful, that the federal government can not make worse)
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