International issues - USA (political parties and their support)

Question 1

What date was the 2016 presidential election in the USA?

Answer 1

November the 8th 2016

Question 2

Who became president of the USA and took office on the 20th of January 2017?

Answer 2

Donald Trump

Question 3

Trump one over which swing states? (major ones of 2016)

Answer 3

florida, ohio and pennsylvania

Question 4

How many electors are there in the states?

Answer 4

538

Question 5

How many electors must a candidate accumulate to win?

Answer 5

270 (half the total plus 1)

Question 6

What is special about the way ohio votes?

Answer 6

The results in ohio has mirrored the national outcome in every election since 1960. This means they are a swing state and someone going up for president would want to win over this state as this could be the decider, like ohio has been since 1960.

Question 7

Who has ohio voted for most?

Answer 7

50.7% democrat, however 47.7% of the time they have voted for the republicans

Question 8

Barack Obama won the election both in 2008 and in 2012, he done so by getting which swing states to take his side?

Answer 8

Like iowa and pennsylvania

Question 9

Which states did Barack Obama manage to turn blue?

Answer 9

Virginia and North carolina

Question 10

How many electors did trump win?

Answer 10

306

Question 11

How many electors did clinton win?

Answer 11

232

Question 12

Which party is Trump the leader of?

Answer 12

The republican

Question 13

Which states projected for Clinton?

Answer 13

Virginia, California, Oregon

Question 14

Which gender was more likely to vote for trump and percentages?

Answer 14

male were more likely to vote for trump as 52% of his votes were males and 41% of clintons votes were males

Question 15

Which gender was more likely to vote for Clinton and percentages?

Answer 15

Females as 54% of her voters were females and 41% of her voters were males.

Question 16

Which age groups were more likely to vote for clinton?

Answer 16

between the ages of 18-29 55% of the votes fell within this category, also within people of the ages of 30-44, 51% of them voted for Clinton (democrat)

Question 17

Which age groups were more likely to vote for Trump?

Answer 17

Between the ages of 45- 64, 52% of them voted for trump compared to only 44% of them voting for clinton, also in ages of 65 or over 52% of them voted for trump showing us that the older generations were more in favour of trump compared to the younger generations being in favour more of Hilary Clintons policies.

Question 18

In the 2012 presidential elections, what percentage of the vote did Obama win?

Answer 18

51% compared to Romney at 47%

Question 19

Which gender was more likely to vote for Barack Obama?

Answer 19

Women were a lot more likely to vote for Obama rather than Romney. as 55% of them done so compared to 45% of them voting for Romney.

Question 20

Which gender was more likely to vote for Romney in 2012?

Answer 20

Males were a lot more likely to vote for Romney as 52% of them done so compared to 44% of males voting for Obama.

Question 21

Which age group was more likely to vote for Obama?

Answer 21

Obama seemed to get his votes from the younger ages of society as 18-29 year olds, 60% of them voted for Obama compared to Romney.

Question 22

Which age group was more likely to vote for Romney?

Answer 22

Romney seemed to get more of his votes from the older generations as 56% of over 65’s voted for Romney compared to 44% of them voting for Obama. This allows us to draw a conclusion over all that the younger ages of society were more swung to Obama compared to the elderly following in Romneys footsteps.

Question 23

Who did the whites mostly vote for in the 2012 presidential election?

Answer 23

59% of whites voted for Romney compared to 39% of them voting for Barack Obama

Question 24

What was Romneys first name?

Answer 24

Mitt

Question 25

Which ethnic group voted for Obama the most in the 2012 election?

Answer 25

93% of african americans voted for Barack Obama compared to 6% or them voting for Mitt Romney.

Question 26

Which race are the democrats most faithful voters?

Answer 26

African-Americans are the Democrats most faithfu, supporters. 95% of them voted democrats in the 2008 election and 93% of them voted democrats in the 2012 election.

Question 27

Why do African-Americans vote for the democrats?

Answer 27

Because blacks are still more likely to be poor than other ethnic groups and so the fact that the democrats are more in favour of improving social serviced and improving education for the poorest encourages them to vote for the democrats.

Question 28

Who are the hispanics more likely to vote for?

Answer 28

They are more likely to vote for the democrats but they are not as loyal as the African-americans

Question 29

Many poor people live where in America?

Answer 29

Urban areas

Question 30

Who do wealthy people tend to vote for?

Answer 30

Republicans

Question 31

Which religion backed the republicans the most?

Answer 31

Evangelics

Question 32

which religion backed the democrats the most?

Answer 32

black protestants hispanic catholics and jews

Question 33

What was it that appealed to younger voters to vote for Obama?

Answer 33

Obama came across as having a cool person and laidback, younger generations believed in him and voted for him strongly. Younger people also tend to earn less money at the beginning of their career as well as being more likely to be on state benefits.