Election

US 2020 Presidental Election and Rural - Urban Divide

Introduction The US Presidential vote count has nearly finished. Trump is fighting the results in court though appears to have lost, but a clear theme that’s coming out is the contrast of rural and urban voters. The theory seems to go: Trump voters for the most part come from rural areas, and the election is based on a rural vs urban debate. We can test this theory using some data science approaches - mainly, cleaning and merging data from several places into a useful format.