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Post by avordvet on Jul 19, 2017 5:23:39 GMT -5
New study: Clinton could have won presidency if burden of war was lower in key statesBy Max Londberg, July 18, 2017 1:10 PM Higher war casualties in key swing states may have swung November’s presidential election away from Hillary Clinton, a new study suggests. The study, published last month, found a relationship between states with high numbers of war casualties and an increase in Republican support in the 2016 presidential election. Boston University political science professor Douglas Kriner and University of Minnesota law professor Francis Shen authored the study and wrote, “Trump’s ability to connect with voters in communities exhausted by more than fifteen years of war may have been critically important to his narrow electoral victory.” Three swing states — Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan — all went to Trump by thin margins. They also all had a median number of casualties statewide, with about 25 casualties per million residents. The authors wrote their findings reveal that had the casualty rate been slightly lower in those three key states — say, closer to the rate in neighboring New York, with about 15 deaths per million — the states would have flipped and instead gone to Clinton, which would have given her the White House. www.kansascity.com/news/nation-world/article162082413.html
Yeah, Americans were 'war weary' alright...
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Post by avordvet on Jul 19, 2017 5:27:15 GMT -5
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