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Here are the top stories from the week of December 14 - December 18.

A look at presidential election turnout in the nation’s 206 Pivot Counties

We continue to analyze this year’s election results from Pivot Counties—the 206 counties that voted for Barack Obama (D) in 2008 and 2012 and Donald Trump (R) in 2016. Turnout in Pivot Counties was 68.9%, 0.3 percentage points lower than the national rate of 69.25%.

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Chocolate Chip, Sugar Cookies head to runoff

No cookie won outright in the election for Official Holiday Cookie. Now the top two finishers, Chocolate Chip, with 18.7% of the vote, and Sugar Cookie, with 16.4% of the vote, are in a runoff election. Vote today!

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Five state legislators have switched parties since Nov. 3

Our historical tracking of party switches shows it's common for politicians to change their partisan affiliations after an election. After Nov. 3, three state legislators switched from Democrat to independent, one from Republican to Libertarian, and one from Democrat to Republican.

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