This piece, published by NPR, strictly examines voting statistics by county for the state of Pennsylvania. While Pennsylvania has consistently swayed Democratic in each Presidential election since 1992, 2016 represents a flip in the trend for Presidential voting with the popular majority voting for the Republican candidate. There was only a discrepancy of less than 100,000 votes between the Democratic and Republican candidate, representing roughly 1 percent greater support for Donald Trump in terms of popular vote. One thing that is incredibly interesting in looking at county results is looking at population demographics versus voting trends. Of the 7 highest populated counties in Pennsylvania, 6 leaned Democratic, 5 counties of which represented a Democratic margin greater than 9 %. However, the 45 smallest counties in Pennsylvania by population all leaned Republican. This is a massive result for grassroots support, and surely influenced the overall voting trend in Pennsylvania. Ultimately, the rural support of small counties for the Republican party seems to have been enough to sway the election results for the state of Pennsylvania for the first time in over two decades.
Post by Dan Hamann
http://www.npr.org/2016/11/08/499666514/pennsylvania-2016-presidential-and-state-election-results
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