Thursday, March 31, 2022

GET ME REWRITE: Myopic, frozen-in-time Henry Olsen stakes his claim on Pike County, Pennsylvania

 

Source:  
Wikipedia
3rd-party candidates received 23.1% of vote in 1992, 14.8% of vote in 1996, 3.7% in 2016;
(Segregationist George Wallace received 7.8% of the vote in 1968)

Trump received 3,157 more votes than he did in 2016, a 20% increase, in a county where the 2020 population of 58,535 increased 2% since 2010. 

Biden received 3,763 more votes than Clinton did in 2016, an increase of 41%.

Trump's share of the vote decreased by 2 percentage points.  Biden increased Clinton's share of the vote by 4.7 percentage points.


New York City’s major suburban counties — Nassau, Suffolk, Westchester and Bergen — lost only around 7,000 residents out of a population of more than 4 million people, while its exurb counties, such as Pike County, Penn., continued to gain


% of population 25 and older with bachelor's degree:
  • 27.1% - Pike County
  • 32.1% - Pennsylvania
  • 32.1% - U.S.
% of population 65 and older:
  • 23.5% - Pike County
  • 18.7% - Pennsylvania
  • 16.5% - U.S.
% of population living in poverty:
  •   9.3% - Pike County
  • 10.9% - Pennsylvania
  • 11.4% - U.S. 
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