The LA Times went all out this year, plotting vote totals in every precinct in the County and overlaying it on a big, attractive map. But something doesn't feel right: there's no way the SCV is this blue, is there?
That's crazy right?
According to this map, there are pockets of Valencia that voted for Obama over Romney. Yes, Valencia! The Master Plan itself.
And Placerita Canyon voted for Obama over Romney. Even Canyon Country voted for Obama. Something's not right, or is it?
I can't embed the map, but if you visit the Times' site and run your mouse over each precinct, you'll see that the vote total numbers are very low. In my precinct, they show 217 votes for Obama and over 260 for Romney, yet there are about 5,000 voters in my precinct.
That pattern (very low vote totals) repeats itself throughout the SCV and in just about every precinct in the County, so it may be a feature rather than a bug. It could be that the Times is using those numbers just to get the percentage spread, since the spread seems accurate. We know, overall, that Romney beat Obama in the SCV 54-46 by just under 4,000 votes.
If it's right though, this is a significant change from 2008 when the map looked like this for Obama/McCain:
You could say, after comparing the 2012 map to the 2008 map, that the SCV is getting more blue.
As Lindsey Graham said, there's just not enough old angry white guys to sustain the base of the GOP. Perhaps that's true in the SCV as well?
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How the SCV voted, ctd
That's crazy right?
According to this map, there are pockets of Valencia that voted for Obama over Romney. Yes, Valencia! The Master Plan itself.
And Placerita Canyon voted for Obama over Romney. Even Canyon Country voted for Obama. Something's not right, or is it?
I can't embed the map, but if you visit the Times' site and run your mouse over each precinct, you'll see that the vote total numbers are very low. In my precinct, they show 217 votes for Obama and over 260 for Romney, yet there are about 5,000 voters in my precinct.
That pattern (very low vote totals) repeats itself throughout the SCV and in just about every precinct in the County, so it may be a feature rather than a bug. It could be that the Times is using those numbers just to get the percentage spread, since the spread seems accurate. We know, overall, that Romney beat Obama in the SCV 54-46 by just under 4,000 votes.
If it's right though, this is a significant change from 2008 when the map looked like this for Obama/McCain:
You could say, after comparing the 2012 map to the 2008 map, that the SCV is getting more blue.
As Lindsey Graham said, there's just not enough old angry white guys to sustain the base of the GOP. Perhaps that's true in the SCV as well?
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