How the Other Half Votes
The competing halves of states in the Midwest.KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE— This piece analyzes recent presidential voting patterns in the Midwest by comparing the big counties that cast roughly half the statewide vote with the smaller counties that cast the rest of the statewide vote.— In Illinois and Minnesota, more than half of the statewide vote comes from dominant metro areas, and improvements in those areas from 2012 to 2020 allowed Democrats to maintain their strong position in both states.— The smaller-county halves of Iowa and Ohio have zoomed right, pushing them out of the rost...
Source: rasmussenreports.com
