Retiring Guy's Digest: Dear eastern Oregon residents, Idaho's most populous and fastest growing county is not as conservative as you think Best, Retiring Guy

Saturday, May 29, 2021

Dear eastern Oregon residents, Idaho's most populous and fastest growing county is not as conservative as you think Best, Retiring Guy

Or, "Why the GOP believes that voter suppression is the only path to survival".

Ada County, of which Boise is the county seat went from a 46.2 percentage point GOP advantage in 1984 to a 3.9 percentage point GOP advantage in 2020.

Wikipedia

3rd party votes: 26.5% in 1992, 11% in 1996, 13.4% in 2016

(Alabama segregationist George Wallace

received 12.9% of the vote in 1968)

Trump received 36,947 more votes than he did in 2016, a 40% increase. Biden received 44,842 more votes than Clinton in 2016, an increase of 60%.

Trump's share of the vote increased by 2.4 percentage points. Biden increased Clinton's share of the vote by 7.7 percentage points.

Idaho Statesman, 5/19/2021

Proponents say the “swaths of conservative, pro-Trump, anti-tax voters” in rural parts of Oregon have more in common with Idaho, which they want to claim as their own state. Oregon, which currently has two Democratic senators in the U.S. Senate, has voted blue in presidential elections since 1988, while Idaho, with two Republican U.S. senators, has voted red in presidential contests since 1968.
“This election proves that rural Oregon wants out of Oregon,” Mike McCarter, president of Citizens for Greater Idaho, said in a news release. “If we’re allowed to vote for which government officials we want, we should be allowed to vote for which government we want as well.”

Demographically speaking.

US Census Bureau QuickFacts

% of population 25 and older with bachelor's degree:

38.5% - Ada County
27.6% - Idaho
32.1% - U.S.

% of population 65 and older:

14.9% - Ada County
16.3% - Idaho
16.5% - U.S.

% of population living in poverty:

9.4% - Ada County
11.2% - Idaho
10.5% - U.S. (they're joking, of course)

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

Where the GOP believes that voter suppression is the only path to survival

Denver metro area:

Colorado. Adams County. (3/25/2021)

Colorado. Arapahoe County. (3/25/2021)

Colorado. Denver County. (3/25/2021)
Colorado. Douglas County. (3/25/2021)

Colorado. Jefferson County. (3/25/2021)

Atlanta metro area:

Georgia. Clayton County. (3/26/2021)

Georgia. Cobb County. (3/26/2021)

Georgia. DeKalb County. (3/26/2021)

Georgia. Douglas County. (3/27/2021)

Georgia. Fayette County. (3/27/2021)

Georgia. Forsyth County. (3/26/2021)

Georgia. Gwinnett County. (3/26/2021)

Georgia. Henry County. (3/26/2021)

Georgia Rockdale County. (3/26/2021)

Chicago metro area:

Illinois. DeKalb County. (3/29/2021)

Illinois. DuPage County. (3/30/2021)

Illinois. Kane County. (3/30/2021)

Illinois. Kendall County. (3/30/2021)

Illinois. Lake County. (3/29/2021)

Illinois. McHenry County. (3/29/2021)

Illinois. Will County. (3/30/2021)

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)

Baltimore/Washington D.C. metro area