Thursday, March 25, 2021

Jefferson County, Colorado: Why Republican strategists lose sleep at night

  

Denver metro area

Jefferson County:  From a 39.2 percentage point GOP advantage in 1984 to an 18.6 percentage point Democratic advantage in 2020.

Wikipedia 
3rd party votes:  26.7% in 1992, 8.9% in 1996. 9.1% in 2016
(Alabama segregationist George Wallace received 8% of the vote in 1968)

Trump received 9,240 more votes than he did in 2016, a 7% increase.   Biden received 57,620 more votes than Clinton did in 2016, an increase of 36%.

Trump's share of the vote decreased by 2.7 percentage points.  Biden increased Clinton's share of the vote by 9 percentage points

The GOP suburban problem, graphed.  (Same source as line graph above.)

Demographically speaking.

% of population 25 and older with bachelor's degree:
  • 45.2% - Jefferson County
  • 40.9% - Colorado
  • 32.1% - U.S.
% of population 65 and older:
  • 16.9% - Jefferson County
  • 14.6% - Colorado
  • 16.5% - U.S.
% of population living in poverty:
  •   7.2% - Jefferson County
  •   9.3% - Colorado
  • 10.5% - U.S. (they're joking, of course)

The GOP dumbing down of America is not working in Jefferson County.

Other GOP insomnia locations:
Indianpolis metro area:

Indiana.  Hamilton County.  (3/23/2021)
Indiana.  Hancock County.  (3/23/2021)
Indiana.  Hendricks County.  (3/23/2021)
Indiana.  Johnson County.  (3/23/2021)
Indiana.  Marion County.  (3/24/2021)

Minneapolis/St. Paul metro area
Minnesota.  Anoka County.  (3/22/2021)
Minnesota.  Carver County.  (3/21/2021)
Minnesota.  Dakota County.  (3/22/2021)
Minnesota.  Washington County.  (3/22/2021)

Kansas City metro area:
Missouri.  Clay County.  (3/22/2021)
Missouri.  Platte County.  (3/22/2021)

Dallas/Fort Worth metro area:
Texas.  Collin County.  (3/24/2021)
Texas.  Dallas County.  (3/24/2021)
Texas.  Denton County.  (3/24/2021)
Texas.  Ellis County.  (3/24/2021)
Texas.  Kaufman County.  (3/24/2021)
Texas.  Tarrant County.  (3/24/2021)

Milwaukee metro area
Wisconisn.  Ozaukee County. (3/23/2021) 
Wisconsin.  Waukesha County.  (3/23/2021)

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