Because his name came first in key states?

[struggle4progress]

25 February 2017

... Jon Krosnick has spent 30 years studying how voters choose one candidate rather than another, and says that "at least two" US presidents won their elections because their names were listed first on the ballot, in states where the margin of victory was narrow.

At first sight Krosnick's idea might seem to make little sense. Are voters really so easily swayed?

Most of them are not ...

But a minority are ...

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-39082465

[Wounded Bear]

1. Would not surprise me in the slightest...nt

[crazycatlady]

2. That actually surprises me in some way

Many candidates are listed in alphabetical order, in which case C comes before T.

I honestly don't remember how my ballot was. I know it was listed as a column (absentee, paper ballot) and I just voted straight down the Democratic column.

[struggle4progress]

3. Order depends on state law, I think

[crazycatlady]

4. And county

My county clerk's office (runs the board of elections among other things) is partisan and Republican for at least 20 years. Democrats are always column 2/B and the GOP is always column 1/A.

[KewlKat]

5. if i remember t was definitely at the top and there were other names

And Hillary was near or at the bottom. I should see if I can find an image of the ballot somewhere.