2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Just look at one county in PA and its just mind blowing and shocking... the results are very shady [View all]SickOfTheOnePct
(7,290 posts)than there are registered Republicans, so obviously Democrats and independents/non-affiliated voted for Trump.
But if you look the percentage of registered Democrats who voted for the Democratic candidate in 2008, 2012 and 2016, you'll see that the decline is pretty consistent.
~65.1% in 2008 (based on 2008 registration data)
~57.8% in 2012 (down 7.3 points, based on 2008 registration data)
~49.4% in 2016 (down 8.4 points, based on 2016 registration data)
And I'm not looking at the population, I'm looking at voter registration as of March 2016. Obviously, it could have changed between March and November, but I'm guessing it's more accurate than using 2008 for 2008, 2012 and 2016.
[link:http://citizensvoice.com/news/voter-registration-party-switching-up-in-county-1.2020853|