Also: yes I know that Maricopa county went red, but not by the massive margin you would think. Again, instead of cherry picking one data point, take a look at the county-by-county results:
https://simonrogers.net/2016/11/16/u...-results-data/
I'm hoping you all fire up excel or Google spreadsheets and take a look at the numbers for yourselves, but here's a quick snapshot:
- Out of the 100 most populous counties, 85 went blue, 15 went red with 31170940 (D) vs. 17952638 (R) votes overall
- Out of the 250 most populous counties, 166 went blue, 84 went red with 44218149 (D) vs. 30035527 (R) votes overall
- Out of the 500 most populous counties, 232 went blue, 268 went red with 52118060 (D) vs. 40487406 (R) votes overall
- Out of the 1000 most populous counties, 293 went blue, 706 went red with 57669510 (D) vs. 50342988 (R) votes overall
Note that these results also include the entire state of Alaska at population rank 115, since AK does not report results by county.
While this sounds like a whine, it's not. It's an impartial analysis highlighting the ideological and political divides between the urban population centers and the areas in between them. Widening this gap and solidifying their status as Democrat or Republican strongholds serves no-one but the 538 reps and 100 senators that will keep getting re-elected along party lines and accomplishing nothing in terms of meaningful reform or true public service.
All while you continue to blame faceless libtards and/or a dirty foreigner like me who came and took all your jobs (every last one of them).