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Title: Still Contesting Colorado? The Politics of the 2016 Election in Colorado

Citation Type: Book, Section

Publication Year: 2018

ISBN: 9781498565875

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Abstract: Amid an extraordinary national election putting candidates carrying the baggage of historically low popularity -- Hillary Clinton, the first female presidential nominee for a major party, against Donald Trump, a populist Republican firebrand and real estate mogul -- the 2016 Presidential election in Colorado resulted in an outcome remarkably consistent with Colorado’s recent role as a blue-leaning swing state. Hillary Clinton held on to win in Colorado with a plurality of 48.2 percent of the state’s popular vote, almost equal to her national popular vote. Her winning margin of 4.9 percentage point margin against Republican Mitt Romney in 2012, but substantially tighter than Obama’s 9 percent margin over Republican nominee John McCain in 2008 when Colorado . . .

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Authors: Preuhs, Robert, R; Provizer, Norman; Thangasamy, Andrew

Editors: Schultz, David, A; Jacob, Rafael

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Volume Title: Presidential Swing States

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Publisher Location: Lanham, MD

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Data Collections: IPUMS NHGIS

Topics: Other, Population Data Science

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