How Hillary Clinton’s white voters melted away

Retired steel workers Mike Pron (L to R) Jim McAndrew, Charlie Kelly, Joe Gonda and Ken Rayden play poker in a union hall in Bethlehem Pennsylvania, U.S., November 9, 2016. REUTERS/Peter Eisler

BETHLEHEM, Pennsylvania (Reuters) - The unravelling of the coalition that was supposed to carry Hillary Clinton to the White House had a lot to do with voters like Jim McAndrew in counties like Northampton, Pennsylvania.

McAndrew, 69, a retired steel worker, voted Democrat in every presidential election for half a century. This year he stayed home. And Northampton County, a heavily white, heavily Democratic, largely working class area that backed President Barack Obama in 2008 and 2012, went for Donald Trump, a Republican.