2016 Postmortem

mahatmakanejeeves

(57,393 posts)

36. West Virginia's Results: Trump, 68.7%, Clinton, 26.5%

Reply to Eliot Rosewater (Original post)

Sun Dec 18, 2016, 03:03 PM

Dec 2016

United States presidential election in West Virginia, 2016

Donald Trump easily won West Virginia with 68.7% of the vote, giving him his largest margin of victory in the country. Hillary Clinton received 26.5% of the vote. West Virginia was also one of two states where Donald Trump won every county, the other being Oklahoma. Trump's 42.2% margin of victory is the largest of any presidential candidate from either party in the state's history, besting Abraham Lincoln's 36.4% margin of victory in 1864.

That's because 68.7% of the voters in West Virginia are bigots and racists.

Right.

Keep writing voters off; that's a certain path to victory.

Trump can't do anything that will get those jobs back. All that was necessary for him to do was to persuade voters to think he could.

Analysis

As expected, Republican nominee Donald Trump won West Virginia in a 42-point routing (the largest of any presidential candidate in the state's history) over Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, thanks to ardent support from coal industry workers in Appalachia. He thus captured all five electoral votes from the Mountain State. Trump had promised to bring back mining jobs in economically depressed areas of coal country, whereas his opponent had proposed investing millions into converting the region to a producer of green energy. Democrats' championing of environmentalism is viewed as a threat in coal country, and Clinton faced a towering rejection from Mountain State voters.

West Virginia was once a solidly Democratic state; it voted Democratic in every election from 1932 to 1996, except for the Republican landslides of 1956, 1972, and 1984. However, in recent years it has drifted to becoming solidly Republican, and has stayed that way since it was won by George W. Bush in 2000. Barack Obama, for example, failed to win even a single county in 2012. West Virginia is one of the two states where Hillary Clinton did not win any counties, the other being Oklahoma.

How many elections has Michael Moore won?

== == == == ==

From now on we're going to have to provide our own leadership.

Indivisible: A Practical Guide for Resisting the Trump Agenda

Edit history

Please sign in to view edit histories.

74 replies

= new reply since forum marked as read

Highlight:

Please stop saying Trump turnout is because of jobs or economy. [View all] Eliot Rosewater Dec 2016 OP

The Michael Moore meme has been debunked. duffyduff Dec 2016 #1

Trump was, quite simply thejoker123 Dec 2016 #23

Not true in my county Kilgore Dec 2016 #2

It is accurate there is a small number of people who are Eliot Rosewater Dec 2016 #3

Yeah 200 counties full who voted for obama twice and now trump yeoman6987 Dec 2016 #41

Obama didn't run against an overt and openly racist person either, this leaves out that small fact uponit7771 Dec 2016 #45

Let's get real. duffyduff Dec 2016 #7

I meant to be inclusive of those as well. Thanks for pointing them out. Eliot Rosewater Dec 2016 #9

Why action are you suggesting in Syria? oberliner Dec 2016 #14

Obama is still president. former9thward Dec 2016 #37

THANK YOU ! That's what the ........ FACTS.......... show, but fuck facts on DU peoples "opinions" uponit7771 Dec 2016 #46

no, it wasn't about jobs. we've got near-full employment. at most, it was about lies about jobs. unblock Dec 2016 #8

Trump voters believe unemployment increased under Obama. rzemanfl Dec 2016 #52

In a nutshell unblock Dec 2016 #62

and in your part of the country what is the make up of the Senators and Representatives, the still_one Dec 2016 #17

And the anti-TPP fight for the 99% ers lost big time. Was not the TPP either. bettyellen Dec 2016 #25

Many Americans don't know what is in the TPP.. JHan Dec 2016 #35

+1, nah... couldn't be because Comey etc... nah, Russia didn't have SHIT to do with it /sarcasm uponit7771 Dec 2016 #47

So they voted for a billionaire insider and the thejoker123 Dec 2016 #24

they voted for a billionaire trust funder who cheats his employees and certainot Dec 2016 #32

Which is idiocy J_William_Ryan Dec 2016 #39

That's why the OP used the word "most"... we all need to pay attention to what is said uponit7771 Dec 2016 #44

Fact: Hillary won w voters concerned about economy. Trump won w voters on immigration, emulatorloo Dec 2016 #69

Exactly. the far loony racist whites came out to vote while more moderate R's stayed home -tired of Kashkakat v.2.0 Dec 2016 #4

Your 4th paragraph nails it for many of them mtnsnake Dec 2016 #5

I know a few Trump supporters. LisaM Dec 2016 #11

This! They didn't compare the tax plans and assumed Dems would raise theirs and give the $ to brown bettyellen Dec 2016 #27

Most voters support lower taxes for themselves oberliner Dec 2016 #40

There was a lot of that BeyondGeography Dec 2016 #6

To make that vote you had to ignore that he is a racist, sexual assaulter, liar and Eliot Rosewater Dec 2016 #13

And they did BeyondGeography Dec 2016 #16

And a former member of my church was defending Trump's words as "locker room talk" 47of74 Dec 2016 #31

+1, they continue to rationalize their dick-ishness in their vote for Twitler uponit7771 Dec 2016 #48

Or just gullible. When confronted by things like this, a lot of cons dionysus Dec 2016 #43

Except why in the swing states did every Democrat running for Senate lose against the establishment still_one Dec 2016 #18

... ahem "... were going to ignore this little factoid and beat on Hillary .... " ahem.. cough uponit7771 Dec 2016 #49

If it was about jobs and the economy how the hell did Obama get re-elected doc03 Dec 2016 #10

+1, Obama wasn't running against an overt bigot uponit7771 Dec 2016 #50

True. It was racist and sexist backlash against first black President and potentially CousinIT Dec 2016 #12

And Hillary was gonna let women and children from war torn middle east come to our country Eliot Rosewater Dec 2016 #15

Can't rec this enough kcr Dec 2016 #19

racism was an essential part of his victory AlexSFCA Dec 2016 #20

I think 95% of the opposition to President Obama was racial. 47of74 Dec 2016 #34

You're over simplifying Fiendish Thingy Dec 2016 #21

You are absolutely right! True Dough Dec 2016 #29

This progressoid Dec 2016 #33

"a lot of folks are underemployed" this is false on its face the LFPR has been rising for a year and uponit7771 Dec 2016 #51

Tell that to the middle aged professionals, assembly line and tech workers Fiendish Thingy Dec 2016 #64

Bingo TaterBake Dec 2016 #22

Deplorables jumped at the opportunity to crawl out from their oasis Dec 2016 #26

And even with them crawling out from under rocks, HRC still got millions of more votes Rex Dec 2016 #28

Republicans will lie, cheat , steal elmac Dec 2016 #30

West Virginia's Results: Trump, 68.7%, Clinton, 26.5% mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2016 #36

It's a mistake to assign all Trump voters to bigotry/racism. KPN Dec 2016 #38

More RWTP, the LFPR and U6 rate are at near full employment levels and the "low wage" recovery uponit7771 Dec 2016 #53

Maybe you have to come from a blue collar family TexasMommaWithAHat Dec 2016 #60

Thank you TexasMomma KPN Dec 2016 #70

People voted for Trump for a slew of reasons, but the fundamental one is a corrupt corporate media. JCanete Dec 2016 #42

I know IT workers TexasMommaWithAHat Dec 2016 #54

In rural Western Colorado the Trump signs did not come out until randr Dec 2016 #55

Here in eastern Iowa I didn't really see too many Agent Orange signs out 47of74 Dec 2016 #63

Message auto-removed Name removed Dec 2016 #56

Before the midterms crazycatlady Dec 2016 #58

It was racism and xenophobia and sexism treestar Dec 2016 #57

It's not an either/or situation though Lotusflower70 Dec 2016 #59

true times 1000 heaven05 Dec 2016 #61

Are you here to Correct the Record? aikoaiko Dec 2016 #65

Or it could be we have a shit load of ignorant racists and bigots Eliot Rosewater Dec 2016 #71

No, I'm saying the HRC economic message failed to connect with enough voters in the rust belt. aikoaiko Dec 2016 #72

Those who voted for maggot MFM008 Dec 2016 #66

His base... bigots and the "keep gov't out of my medicare" idiots. LanternWaste Dec 2016 #67

It doesn't have to have been all about one thing. Orsino Dec 2016 #68

Both are true BainsBane Dec 2016 #73

Kick Cha Dec 2016 #74