I haven't posted many maps and charts post-election because I'm hesitant to do with incomplete data given the slow count. Here are a few to start out with.
Here's a final county-level swing map for the Lower 48.
Here's a final county-level swing map for the Lower 48.
Turnout increase by county.
Some outliers: College towns like State College, PA and Athens, OH posted declines or slight increases.
Dallas County, IA is the Collin County of the Midwest. It posted a 46% increase in raw votes.
Turnout drop in AR coincided with swing to Trump.
Some outliers: College towns like State College, PA and Athens, OH posted declines or slight increases.
Dallas County, IA is the Collin County of the Midwest. It posted a 46% increase in raw votes.
Turnout drop in AR coincided with swing to Trump.
Three groups shifted in 2020: College whites to Biden, and as they got over 2016, Hispanics and Mormons to Trump. Blacks and Hispanics didn't shift. County-level Asian data isn't great but shifts in Hawaii and Santa Clara County, CA suggest they swung to Trump too.
Turnout increases led to a swing to Biden nationally, though there were plenty of new votes for Trump in this bunch and who benefits from higher turnout is cycle-specific.
The trendline implies that Biden won the 20M new voters in 2020 by about 15 points.
The trendline implies that Biden won the 20M new voters in 2020 by about 15 points.
The more college-educated whites in a county, the better he did vs. 2016 - and the more he benefited from higher turnout.
Returning to the tweets below, polls basically did no better than a coin toss in predicting which way counties outside heavily Latino areas would shift in 2020 if you apply their national-level shifts to individual counties. https://twitter.com/PatrickRuffini/status/1337503499375046659
As a result, polls missed on both sides of the equation. If you apply the pre-election national demographic shifts to counties, you get this first-of-its-kind map of estimated county-level polling error. (Red = missed Trump, Blue = missed Biden.)