Monday, January 1, 2024

Days are numbered for MAGA whackos in Ottawa County, Michigan

 
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)

Ottawa County's population has nearly doubled since 1970.



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


 


Related posts:
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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