Brian F. F. Schaffner & John A. A. Clark 
Making Sense of the 2016 Elections [EPUB ebook] 
A CQ Press Guide

Introduction
The Electoral Landscape in 2016
Choosing the Presidential Nominees
The Invisible Primary
The Democratic Party Decides on Clinton
The Republican Party Decides Not to Decide
The General Election Campaign
The Case for Thinking the Campaign Mattered
The Case for Thinking the Campaign Was of Minimal Importance
Campaigns Are Mostly about Mobilization
The Outcome
Another Electoral College/Popular Vote Split
Where the Election Was Won
How Key Groups Voted
Why People Voted for Trump
The Battle for Control of Congress
How Republicans Kept the Senate Red
Why Republicans Retained Their House Majority
Diversity in Congress
The 2016 Elections in the States
Governors and State Legislatures
Ballot Proposals
Putting the 2016 Election into Context
Notes
About the Authors

John A. Clark is a Professor and Chair of the Department of Political Science at Western Michigan University. Clark’s research focuses on political parties, campaigns and elections, legislative politics, and the politics of the American South. He is the coeditor of Southern Political Party Activists and Party Organization and Activism in the American South, which won the 1999 V. O. Key Award as the best book on Southern politics. He has authored or coauthored more than thirty book chapters and articles in scholarly journals. Since 2002, he and Schaffner have coauthored a series of short monographs analyzing the presidential and midterm elections; 2016 marks the eighth in the series.