2016 Postmortem

eppur_se_muova

(36,274 posts) Sat Nov 10, 2012, 11:41 AM Nov 2012

County by county, what's the biggest red/blue tilt in your state ?

In AL, Macon county went for Obama by 87%.

Two counties went for Romney 86%.

Enough to get one thinking about direct popular elections, rather than the Electoral College.

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County by county, what's the biggest red/blue tilt in your state ? (Original Post) eppur_se_muova Nov 2012 OP

In NC, Durham County went 75.7% for Obama: Cherokee County went 72.2% Romney. There might be mnhtnbb Nov 2012 #1

mnhtnbb

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1. In NC, Durham County went 75.7% for Obama: Cherokee County went 72.2% Romney. There might be

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Sat Nov 10, 2012, 01:09 PM

Nov 2012

another red county with a higher %--there are 100 counties in NC--but most of the red counties were low population.

The high population center counties--Wake, Mecklenburg, Durham, Guilford, Forsyth--and progressive areas like Orange, Buncombe--went blue.

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