The GOP margin of victory in presidential elections has shrunk from 59.8 percentages points in 1984 to 21.4 percentage points in 2020.
Source: Wikipedia
3rd-party candidates received 17.9% of vote in 1992, 7.3% of vote in 1996, 7.2% in 2016;
(Alabama segregationist George Wallace received 7.2% of the vote in 1968)
Washington Post, 12/23/2023
In Ottawa County, a fast-growing community of 300,000 along Lake Michigan, the nexus for so many of these ideological fights was the health department.
The hard-right Republicans on the 11-person county board swept into office last year after defeating more-moderate GOP incumbents in a primary. The old commissioners had for years focused on keeping taxes low and the county’s biggest multinational employers happy. Their replacements reflected an increasingly populist and conspiratorial GOP — remade in the image of Donald Trump
As its population increases, Ottawa County Michigan voters find less to like about a hardcore GOP. )(1/5/2023)
Homophobic voters in Michigan town give master class in how to cut off your nose to spite your face. (11/22/2022)
Dear Jamestown Charter Township Michigan residents, A truly great library contains something in it to offend everyone. Best, Retiring Guy. (7/25/2022)
Greetings from Trump's America: Ottawa County, Michigan, which is not as Trumpy, or as red, as it used to be. (7/22/2023)
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