{"id":3997,"date":"2020-12-12T15:21:46","date_gmt":"2020-12-12T15:21:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=3997"},"modified":"2020-12-12T15:21:46","modified_gmt":"2020-12-12T15:21:46","slug":"trump-lost-in-part-because-2016-third-party-voters-heavily-preferred-biden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=3997","title":{"rendered":"Trump Lost in Part Because 2016 Third-Party Voters Heavily Preferred Biden"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;The share of third-party\/independent presidential voters plummeted by nearly four percentage points since 2016, from 5.7 to 1.8, while Joe Biden exceeded Hillary Clinton&#8217;s haul nationally by 2.6 percentage points and climbing steadily, as the populous blue states continue to pad his lead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So while Michigan, for example, was delivering essentially the same results for Trump as four years ago, the Great Lakes State was subtracting 3.6 percentage points from third-party candidates, and adding 3.2 to Biden&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Arizona has a similar story: down a combined 4.6 for the marginal names, up 4.3 for the Democrat; 92 percent E.V. 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