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"Abbie Hoffman " wrote in message news:
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Every large pocket of coronavirus death has been in a Democrat stronghold.
You're doing great, continue the good work!
Patience, Grasshopper:
The coronavirus is invading the battleground states
The political geography of our pandemic keeps shifting — and now the coronavirus is invading the battleground states in ways that could upend the 2020 presidential race.
William Frey of the Brookings Institution, who is one of the country’s best-known demographers, has been tracking the spread of the novel
coronavirus by county each week.
The last time we checked in on Frey’s data, he had found that the virus had spread into outer-suburban and small-metro counties, and counties carried by Donald Trump in 2016. That undermined the conventional wisdom that the coronavirus has been almost entirely the scourge of Democratic-leaning urban areas.
Now Frey is back with a new installment of data, which he shared with this blog.
Frey’s new top-line finding is that since March 29 — that is, in the past five weeks — some 1,103 counties across the country have now achieved what Frey calls “high-covid status,” and 813 of them voted for Trump in 2016, while 290 voted for Hillary Clinton.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/05/04/coronavirus-is-invading-battleground-states/
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