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louis c

(8,652 posts) Sat Jun 25, 2016, 09:59 AM Jun 2016

Demographic Comparision of Brexit vs American Election

For all of those Trumpeters trying to make the comparison of the British election to Clinton vs. Trump, let's look inside the numbers.

87% of Great Britain is White. The expected election percentage of white voters in the 2016 general election in the United States is 70%.

White voters in Great Britain voted "leave" by a 53% to 47% margin.

If Hillary gets 47% of the white vote in November, she'll probably carry 40 states.

So much for a "harbinger of things to come".