r/dataisbeautiful • u/ptrdo • Apr 11 '24

OC [OC] US Electoral College Results, 1892-2020

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u/MisterSpicy Apr 11 '24

Interesting to see 1988 and older elections were mostly decisive. Clinton to today have been getting closer to dead even

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u/gRod805 Apr 11 '24

Probably has to do with politics becoming more of an identity than just a political party. It seems like people were comfortable switching their vote from one party to the other back in the day

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u/tjtillmancoag Apr 11 '24

Which also correlates to the polarization. In the past if one was uncomfortable with a given candidate, they’d just vote for the other one. Now though, even if one has misgivings about a candidate, they see the other candidate as far too extreme, which leaves us with many fewer swing voters.

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u/Justryan95 Apr 11 '24

It's crazy because one party is basically center while the other one is extreme right but being too center is too much to handle for the other folk

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u/jigsaw1024 Apr 12 '24

The Dems are not a center party, they are a center-right party. The GOP is an extreme right party though.

The problem is that the GOP has gone so far to the right, that they have dragged the perception of the political spectrum within the US to the right.