"Over the last several weeks, there has been a troubling pattern emerging in this election," Mr. Lieberman said in an address to a bricklayers' union convention in Atlantic City.
Stephen Fisher, an academic who works with Prof John Curtice on BBC election analysis, says in a Prospect article that Brexit helped to explain voting patterns in the elections - except in areas with Jewish populations.
That same pattern would have held in this election, as well, had Gillum's surge not coincided with the attack ad barrage from Green against Graham and Levine.
The analysis examines voting in the September's independence referendum and looks at how, if there were similar voting patterns in the general election, this could affect the number of seats Labour holds in Scotland – currently 41.
The pattern continues this election season.
A significant defection of Hispanic voters from the Democratic Party, coupled with stronger-than-expected showings among black voters and white liberals, helped propel Michael R. Bloomberg to victory in the mayoral election over Mark Green, according to a statistical analysis of the voting patterns in Tuesday's election.
Claudia López, a Colombian journalist, tried to gauge the extent of their infiltration by studying atypical voting patterns in the last election.
In a Census Bureau survey of voting patterns in the 2000 election, only 36percentt of 18-to 24-year-olds said they had voted, as compared to 72percentt of those between 65 and 74.
Michael R. Bloomberg's victory in the mayoral election was helped by a significant defection of Hispanic voters from the Democratic Party and stronger-than-expected showings among black voters and white liberals, according to a statistical analysis of the voting patterns in Tuesday's election.
One study, directed by a political scientist at Barnard College, found that first-time immigrant voters in New York City defied traditional voting patterns in the November 2004 election, with more than 18percentt of the new voters choosing President Bush compared with 15percentt of native-born voters.
