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Nov 24, 2020 · Former President Obama ushered in the previous low in 2012, winning re-election with just 689 counties, or 22 per cent – breaking his own record set in 2008, where he won with 875 counties, or ...
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Dec 15, 2020 · "Biden won more votes in 2020 than Obama did in 2008? "OK, now let’s factor in the number of counties won. Obama: Votes 69 million; Counties: 873. Biden: Votes 80 million; Counties: 477
Dec 29, 2020 · The post reads: “Barack Obama: — 69,000,000 votes — 873 counties. Donald Trump: —75,000,000 votes —2,497 counties. Joe Biden: —81,000,000 votes —477 counties ...And we’re not ...
Jul 21, 2020 · July 21, 2020. Ballotpedia identified 206 counties that voted for President Donald Trump (R) in 2016 after voting for President Barack Obama (D) in both 2008 and 2012. Collectively, Trump won these Pivot Counties by more than 580,000 votes and had an average margin of victory of 11.45 percentage points.
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5,562,055:Joe Biden’s lead in the popular vote at the time of publication 11,108,096:The number of confirmed cases of coronavirus in the United States, per the most recent data from NBC News and health officials. (That’s 478,414 more than Friday morning.) 247,370:The number of deaths in the United States from the virus so far. (That’s 3,277 more th...
President-elect Joe Biden may nominate the first woman to lead the Pentagon. NBC’s Geoff Bennett and Marianna Sotomayor report that former Pentagon senior official Michèle Flournoy has emergedas a top choice for Defense secretary. The news comes as the Biden team’s diversity data showedthat a majority of staffers on Biden’s transition team are wome...
President-elect Joe Biden’s incoming chief of staff, Ron Klain, told one of us on Sunday that Biden may be heading to Georgia to campaign for the two Democrats, Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff, whose election would secure Democrats control of the Senate (with Vice President-elect Kamala Harris breaking ties). Klain said on Sunday’s “Meet the Press”t...
Amid an ongoing explosion of COVID-19 hospitalizations and deaths, it’s important to remember that some of the damage of the coronavirus is entirely self-inflicted. For six months, President Trump and Democratic and Republican leaders have failed to reach an agreement on more emergency relief, with each side holding out at various points for a bett...
Last week on The Lid, we looked inside the electorate at how Joe Biden got to 270. Don’t miss Friday’s podon how Biden made inroads with people of faith.
Trump’s lawyers have shelveda major part of their vote-counting lawsuit in Pennsylvania. Scott Atlassaid people in Michigan should “rise up” against new coronavirus restrictions. Union leaders hope that Joe Biden will representtheir interests after years of declining power. Biden didn’t do as well in big citiesas some Democrats hoped. Anthony Fauci...
Jun 29, 2016 · Only 11 counties switched to Obama in 2012, mostly in the chain of majority-black counties from Virginia through Mississippi.
Nov 18, 2020 · In 2016, 237 counties changed allegiances from 2012 — 216 of them went from President Barack Obama to Donald Trump. In 2020, just 77 counties total have flipped so far, and Biden won 59 of them.
