Retiring Guy's Digest: San Diego County, California: Why the GOP believes that voter suppression is the only path to survival

San Diego County went from a 27 percentage point GOP advantage in 1984 to a 4.4 percentage point Democratic advantage in 2020.

Wikipedia

3rd party votes: 27.3% in 1992, 10.3% in 1996, 7.1% in 2016

(Alabama segregationist George Wallace

received 7.7% of the vote in 1968)

Trump received 122,328 more votes than he did in 2016, a 25% increase. Biden received 229,174 more votes than Clinton in 2016, an increase of 31%.

Trump's share of the vote increased by 0.9 percentage points. Biden increased Clinton's share of the vote by 3.9 percentage points.

Demographically speaking.

US Census Bureau QuickFacts

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

38.8% - San Diego County
33.9% - California
32.1% - U.S.

% of population 65 and older:

14.5% - San Diego County
14.8% - California
16.5% - U.S.

% of population living in poverty:

10.3% - San Diego County
11.6% - California
10.5% - U.S. (they're joking, of course)

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

New York Times, 6/21/2021

Across the political map this year, Mr. Sanders’s diagnosis of his former party appears indisputable: In off-year elections from Mr. Sanders’s California to New York City and New Jersey and the increasingly blue state of Virginia with its crucial suburbs of Washington, D.C., the Republican Party’s feeble appeal to the country’s big cities and dense suburbs is on vivid display. Where the G.O.P. once consistently mounted robust campaigns in many of these areas, the party is now all but locked out of all the major contests of 2021.

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)

Boise metro area:

Idaho. Ada County. (5/29/2021)

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