Fascinating pattern Miami-Dade & many Texas counties '16 to'20:
Turnout substantially increases
Trump raw vote substantially increases
Biden matches Clinton's raw votes
- Close to 100% of "new" voters seemingly vote Trump..for example Miami-Dade 1/5
Lea County, New Mexico
Clinton 3939 - Biden 4007
'16 Trump 12495 - '20 Trump 16475
(G. Johnson had 1098 in '16)
+4051 Turnout (just Trump v. Dem); +3980 Trump Votes
Webb County, Texas
Clinton 42307 - Biden 41820
'16 Trump 12947 - '20 Trump 25898
+12464 Turnout; +12951 Trump Votes
Live Oak, Texas
Clinton 742 - Biden 819
'16 Trump 3464 - '20 Trump 4198
+811 Turnout; +734 Trump Votes
Another way to appreciate what happened in Miami-Dade and RGV is to compare their 2020 results with every county in the United States (Alaska excluded) across multiple elections.
To that end, I examined county level data for every presidential election since 2000
I looked at two measures:
1. % increase in raw votes for a party's presidential candidate from one election to next
(So, if a Rep. presidential candidate received 10 votes in Year A, & 4 years later the Rep. candidate receives 20 votes, we'd say that is a 100% increase)
THREAD: I’m still very interested in Trump’s remarkable success in Miami-Dade and Rio Grande Valley/Texas border. The explanations given in the press...
for his gains include the appeal of Trump’s hyper-masculine persona among Latino males, fear of Biden’s position on oil and gas, fear of Biden’s “socialism”, Democrats "forgetting" how to “talk” to Latinos, Democrats taking the Hispanic vote for granted, etc.
If reasons given are accurate, wouldn’t we expect a grand defection from the Biden ticket similar to that of the Reagan Democrats in Macomb County, Michigan in 1984? There, Mondale dropped to 97K votes from Carter’s 120K in 1980. Meanwhile Reagan increased from 154K to 194K.