Dave Weigel points out one of the starkest examples of how little ticket splitting there was in this election: In Detroit, the total Trump vote was 12,654 while the total vote for U.S. Senate candidate John James (R) — a “black guy from Detroit,” as his ads put it — was just 12,734.
Of course, Maine saw significant ticket splitting with the state going to Joe Biden and voters also re-electing Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME),
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Taegan Goddard is the founder of Political Wire, one of the earliest and most influential political web sites. He also runs Political Job Hunt, Electoral Vote Map and the Political Dictionary.
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