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Catherine Wong

President-elect Donald Trump’s win in Florida, a long-time battleground state in US elections, set him on the path to the White House.
With 29 Electoral College votes, Florida is one of the nation’s largest battleground states.
Just two other states, California and Texas, have more votes in the Electoral College, which determines the president of the United States.
Yesterday, Florida was one of the first swing states to finish voting.
Florida is also the state with the oldest population in the country. Some 17 per cent of its people are aged over 65.
This one predictable trend will emerge from Donald Trump’s shock election victory
According to a poll by Florida Atlantic University conducted in October, Hillary Clinton had a three-point lead over Trump at 46 per cent to 43 per cent.
Trump had a 17-point lead among white voters in the state at 53 per cent to 36 per cent. Clinton had a 49-point lead among African Americans, 73 per cent to 24 per cent, and led with Hispanics – the fastest growing population in the state – at 68 per cent to 19 per cent.
The October poll also showed that among likely voters in Florida, Clinton led among women at 51 per cent to 42 per cent, and had a slight lead among men at 46 per cent to 45 per cent.
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Just days before the election, both candidates were deadlocked in Florida, according to an NBC News/Wall Street Journal/Marist poll.
And just hours before the polls closed, Clinton was projected by some media to win Florida by 3.4 percentage points.
If she had, the final outcome of the presidential election would have been very different.
Florida proved to be the goose that lays the golden egg in both of President Barack Obama’s campaigns.
In 2008, it helped him clinch victory over John McCain by nearly three percentage points, and in 2012, he beat Republican Mitt Romney by less than one percentage point.
Florida victories also helped send former Republican president George W. Bush to the White House in both 2000 and 200


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