that had voted for obama in 2008 and d 12 decided to vote for donald trump this year. many of them, white people without college degrees. the 700 counties nationwide that voted for obamama twice, only two-thirds of them stuck with the democrats and hillary clinton according to the washiton n post, about a third flipped to trump this year. by contrast of the 2,200 country counties that never voted for obama, clinton only managed to flip six. this ishat that looks like across the country. those dark orang areas of the two-titime obama counties that went for trump this year. note the clulusters in the northeast, the upper midwest. you don t need to zoom out quite so far to understand what happened on tuesday. you just need to focus on three spifific states that sealed trump s electoral college victory.y. michigan wchch remains too close to call, though trump holds the lead. previously been part of the so-called blue wall, a solid bloc of states that voted for the democrat in every prese
essentially the marnanal voters that were necessary to put him er thehe top and you talked to a lot of those folks throughout the campaign. what did you learn? well, you re right. this is a really important group, and i think, you know, too often we get io this discussion of, oh, the white working class, how can the democrats ever get back the white working class? they lost them so long ago. what we re talking about this year is really a subset of the white working class. these are people who voted for barack obama in 2008 and some of them evenn 2012. you cannot win these states. ohio, pennsylvania, michigan, wisconsin, without winning quite a few of them. and barack obama did win quite a few of them. theroblblem is that this year, hillarclintoton did not win a lot of these same fos. she did not towns lik toledo, she did 15 points worse than obama in tse towns and lost these states. the question is what do you need do to get them ba? and it s not it shouldn t be
michigan hasn t voted for republican for president since 1988. electoral votes have been a pretty reliaiable part of democrats path to victory. thiseaear all that changed. as of right now the state is too close to call, donald trump holding onto a margin of 12,000 votes. cast a ballot on esday, but left the presidential li blank. nearly double the numbeber from four years ago. joined now by ale mamacgillis. author of revenge of the forgotten class. thers been a lotot of really and very fraught conflicts and fights about the sort of genre of reporting about the, quote, white working class in the midwest. one thing i think that s important to distinguish between our core trump supporters and