Columbus OH metro area
Delaware County: From a 53.1 percentage point GOP advantage in 1984 to a 6.8 percentage point GOP advantage in 2020. Delaware County is a purple county on its way to turning blue.
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3rd party votes: 25.5% in 1992, 9.3% in 1996. 6.3% in 2016
(Alabama segregationist George Wallace received 16.4% of the vote in 1968)
The population of Delaware County has grown from 53,840 in 1980 to 209,177 today.
This is why the GOP believes voter suppression is the only road to survival.
July 15 update starts here
Denver metro area
Douglas County: From a 48 percentage point GOP advantage in 1984 to a 25.2 percentage point Democratic advantage in 2020. That's not a swing; it's a seismic shift.
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3rd party votes: 28.7% in 1992, 7% in 1996. 8.7% in 2016
(Alabama segregationist George Wallace received 10.9% of the vote in 1968)
The population of Douglas County has grown from 35,574 in 1980 to 146,343 today.
This is why the GOP believes voter suppression is the only road to survival.
July 14 update starts here
Atlanta metro area
Cobb County: From a 54.8 percentage point GOP advantage in 1984 to a 14.3 percentage point Democratic advantage in 2020. That's not a swing; it's a seismic shift.
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The population of Cobb County has grown from 297,718 in 1980 to 760,141 today.
This is why the GOP believes voter suppression is the only road to survival.
July 13 update starts here
Indianapolis metro area
Hamilton County: From a 65 percentage point GOP advantage in 1984 to a 6.8 percentage point GOP advantage in 2020. That's not a swing; it's a seismic shift. From red to purple to.......
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The population of Hamilton County has grown from 82,027 in 1980 to 338,011 today.
This is why the GOP believes voter suppression is the only road to survival.
Mr. Biden won 54 percent of voters from the country’s suburbs last year, a significant improvement over Hillary Clinton in 2016, and enough to overcome Mr. Trump’s expansion of his own margins in rural and urban areas, according to new data from the Pew Research Center. Suburbanites made up 55 percent of the Biden coalition, compared with 48 percent of Clinton voters.
7/12/2021 update starts here
Houston metro area
Fort Bend County: From a 37.6 percentage point GOP advantage in 1984 to a 10.6 percentage point Democratic advantage in 2020. That's not a swing; it's a seismic shift.
Here's the big picture.
The population of Fort Bend County has grown from 130,846 in 1980 to 811,688 today.
This is why the GOP believes voter suppression is the only road to survival.
Original 7/11/2021 post starts here
Dallas-Fort Worth metro area
Collin County: From a 63.4 percentage point GOP advantage in 1984 to a 4.4 percentage point GOP advantage in 2020. At this rate, the county could possibly flip to blue in 2022.
Here's the big picture.
The population of Collin County has grown from 144,576 in 1980 to 1,034,820 today.
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