Election 2016 Results: Here's How Pennsylvania Helped Put Donald Trump Over The Top

The last time a Republican presidential candidate won Pennsylvania, Ronald Reagan was president, the internet wasn't a thing yet, and if you were alive, you were listening to music on a Sony Walkman. Not an iPhone.

And president-elect Donald Trump was a casino owner and book author who sometimes scoffed at the idea of running for president.

The streak ended Tuesday, and it was Trump himself who did it. And the data shows that it didn't appear to be a fluke: The billionaire assembled a coalition of voters tired of the status quo and victims of a shaky economy who bought into the Republican's populist message.

As of Wednesday morning, with 97 percent of the Pennsylvania precincts reporting, Donald Trump had 48.8 percent of the vote, or 2,912,351 votes, over Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, who had 47.7 percent and 2,844,339 votes, according to CNN. The network declared Trump the winner of the state by 3 a.m.

Trump used a massive victory among white male voters in Pennsylvania to overcome Clinton's broad coalition there and win a state that had gone for Democrats in the past six presidential elections.

Here is how The Associated Press and CNN interpreted the results:

• White voters make up four in five voters in Pennsylvania. White women were divided about evenly between the candidates. Trump had the support of more than three in five white men, and he did even better among white men without college degrees, getting about seven in 10 of their votes.
• Clinton dominated the vote in Pennsylvania cities with populations greater than 50,000, getting seven in 10 votes, but it didn't match what President Barrack Obama did when he was re-elected in 2012, when he received eight in 10 votes in those same cities.
• And about one in eight said neither Trump nor Clinton was qualified for the job. "That left voters in the odd position of casting their ballots for a candidate they had major reservations about," according to The Associated Press. About one in five Trump voters said he's not honest, and about the same portion said he's not qualified. About one in four Clinton voters questioned their candidate's honesty. But more than nine in 10 of her supporters said she's qualified.
• Trump did especially well in two counties where he was not expected to do well: Northampton County, which he won 50 to 46 percent; and he ran close in Bucks County, losing by only 48.4 to 47.8 percent.
• Trump did better than expected with ethnic populations that weren't considered his supporters, particularly Latinos. Despite his strong messages on immigration, Trump got 22 percent of the Latino vote — despite polls showing his expected total to be in the single digits, according to CNN.
• Trump also did much better than expected with women who, many experts believed, could reject the billionaire because of allegations of groping and related issues. He received 50 percent of the white woman vote over Clinton's 47 percent.
• Trump's stance on free trade — he believes NAFTA and related agreements were a disaster for the country, particularly the "Rust Belt" — appeared to resonate. But immigration was the biggest issue for Trump supporters — 78 percent of whom thought it was the biggest issue, followed by terrorism, at 58 percent.

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