Places With More COVID-19 Deaths Were Expected To Turn Away From Trump. They Didn’t.

R code to reproduce the analysis and charts underlying this Nov. 11, 2020 BuzzFeed News article on the influence of COVID-19 death rates and surges in unemployment on voter swings in the 2020 presidential election.

Methodology/Code

The code to process the data and repeat the analysis can be found online here, and in the R Markdown document index.Rmd.

Questions/Feedback

Email the author Peter Aldhous at peter.aldhous@buzzfeed.com.