Cooper: Fall of the House of Hillary

The young, the black and the Hispanic didn't support Hillary Clinton in 2016 like they did Barack Obama in 2012, but the rich did even better for her.
The young, the black and the Hispanic didn't support Hillary Clinton in 2016 like they did Barack Obama in 2012, but the rich did even better for her.

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If you're still wondering how Donald Trump pulled an inside straight and won the 2016 presidential election over Hillary Clinton, here are some statistics to chew over:

* Wyoming (70 percent) and West Virginia (69 percent) gave Donald Trump his largest percentage of votes among all 50 states and the District of Columbia. Hillary Clinton's top percentages came from Washington, D.C. (93 percent) and Hawaii (62 percent). Texas gave Trump the most votes (4,677,115), while California furnished Clinton with her highest total (5,481,885).

* A majority of the wealthy - those making $100,000 a year and above - voted for the Democratic presidential ticket for the first time since 1964. Although Barack Obama won eight of the 10 richest counties in the country in 2012, Clinton bested him in just about every one of those counties this year.

* According to exit polls, the percentage of people ages 18-29 voting for the Democratic presidential ticket fell from 60 percent in 2012 to 54 percent in 2016. The percentage of those the same age voting for the Republican ticket stayed the same at 37 percent.

* Despite Trump's derogatory remarks about women, exit polls show 1 percent fewer women backed Clinton in 2016 than voted for Obama in 2012. Two percent fewer backed Trump than backed Mitt Romney in 2012.

* The Latin and Asian electorate in the United States grew 17 percent and 16 percent, respectively, between the 2012 and 2016 presidential elections.

* Unlike what had been broadcast as likely across newscast after newscast in the run-up to the 2016 election, the percentage of Hispanics voting for the Democratic ticket fell from 71 percent in 2012 to 65 percent in 2016, and the percentage of Hispanics casting their ballot for the Republican ticket - despite Trump's early rhetoric - went from 27 to 29 percent.

* Black support of the Democratic ticket fell from 93 percent in 2012 to 88 percent in 2016, according to exit polls, and increased from 6 percent for Romney in 2012 to 8 percent for Trump in 2016. Nevertheless, Clinton won 85 percent of counties where at least 45 percent of the population is black and 83.8 percent of the counties where less than 50 percent of the population is white.

* Among white, non-Hispanic voters, 58 percent cast their ballots for Trump, down 1 percent from Romney's percentage in 2012. But the same demographic group dropped from 39 percent support for Obama in 2012 to 37 percent for Clinton in 2016.

* Of the 250 counties in the country with the most white people, 249 voted for Trump. Of the 250 counties with the most older men, 241 voted for Trump.

* White, college-educated voters and white, non-college-educated voters voted in a plurality and a majority for Trump, according to the Pew Research Center.

* White, born-again or evangelical Christians cast votes for Trump in larger percentages on Tuesday than they did for Romney in 2012, Sen. John McCain in 2008 and then-President George W. Bush in 2004. His percentage of the vote from Protestants and other Christians exceeded that of Romney in 2012, McCain in 2008 and Bush in 2000. Catholics voted for the Republican nominee in larger percentages than any Republican in the 21st century (tying Bush in 2004).

* Trump lost only three counties in Tennessee, Davidson (Nashville), Haywood and Shelby (Memphis), netting his highest percentage (86 percent) of the vote in Wayne County. Romney won all but four counties in 2012, the same three Trump lost, plus Hardeman. Trump won 1,519,926 votes in the Volunteer State, some 55,000 more than Romney.

* In Tuesday's election in Hamilton County, 73.5 percent of registered voters - 144,906 of 197,223 - cast a ballot. That exceeded the 2012 turnout, when 63.9 percent of registered voters - 142,161 of 222,480 - cast a ballot.

* Trump polled 78,661 votes in winning Hamilton County, more than 1,000 fewer than Romney collected in 2012, but Clinton tallied 55,620 votes, more than 3,000 fewer than Obama got in his re-election bid in 2012.

* U.S. Rep. Chuck Fleischmann, R-Chattanooga, won nearly 80,000 more votes in Tuesday's general election than he did in the 2014 election. Overall, he won 66.39 percent of the vote compared to Democratic challenger Melody Shekari's 28.85 percent. His percentage of the votes ranged from 81.90 percent in Scott County to 58.90 percent in Hamilton County, where both he and Shekari make their homes.

* State Sen. Todd Gardenhire lost his home Hamilton County by 1,083 votes in his re-election bid Tuesday but made up for it by winning District 10's portion of Bradley County by 9,341 votes over challenger Khristy Wilkinson, finishing with 55.87 percent of the vote to Wilkinson's 44.13 percent. He won Hamilton by fewer than 6,000 votes in 2012 but had another comfortable margin in Bradley County.

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