Wednesday, October 28, 2020

Greetings from Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, where the shrinking number of Trump's America residents still make a lot of noise



New York Times, 3/27/2020

In 2016, Clinton beat Trump handily in Montgomery County, where Hatboro is located, by a margin of more than 20 percentage points.  In fact, she outperformed the 2012 edition of Obama by more than 22,000 votes.  Trump, on the other hand, received nearly 12,000 fewer votes than Romney in 2012.

The Cult of Trump notwithstanding, Montgomery will remain blue by a significant margin.

Source Wikipedia





Original 3/11/2019 post starts here

In Philadelphia and its suburbs - Bucks, Chester, Delaware, and Montgomery Counties - Clinton fared about as well as or better than Obama did against Republican Mitt Romney in 2012. She won by a 634,588-vote margin in the region. 
Philadelphia alone was a success story. With more than 99 percent of the vote counted in the city, Clinton had 562,717 votes Wednesday. That gave her a margin of 456,933 over Trump - a level experts had believed would carry her to statewide victory.
Source: Wikipedia

Northwest of the Philadelphia city line


Percentage of population 25 and older with a bachelor's degree:
  • 48.2% - Montgomery
  • 30.1% - Pennsylvania
  • 30.9% - U.S.

In 2016, Democrats increased their margin of victory by 9.2 percentage points.

Source Wikipedia
3rd-party candidates received 17.7% of vote in 1992, 10.0% of vote in 1996, 4.5% in 2016

Other blue zone posts:
Georgia.  DeKalb County.  (3/10/2019)
Maryland.  Howard County.  (3/9/2019)
Michigan.  Washtenaw County.  (3/9/2019)

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