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To be fair it was very even. I was expecting Houston MSA to be more red. I would add that Trump is not a normal Republican, so even 50-50 indicates the area is strongly right-wing.
Indianapolis currently has a democrat mayor, democrat majority city-county council, just passed a transit referendum, and is home to a large gay pride festival. Indianapolis voted 64% for Obama in 2008, 61% for Obama in 2012, and 62% for Clinton in 2016. The congressman representing the largest district in Indianapolis is a Muslim democrat, only the second Muslim to be elected to Congress. Please explain which of these empirical stats provides a "break-even or gains for conservatives/Republicans."
Pretty impressive, considering Indy makes up a huge share of its metro, compared to most other metros.
Only 1 out of the 11 counties making up the Indianapolis MSA went to HRC.
I think it's safe to say that area is very conservative.
Thread title says city. It is safe to say most every city is more blue, and its suburbs more red. For those reasons, I am rejecting your argument on grounds of irrelevance.
Thread title says city. It is safe to say most every city is more blue, and its suburbs more red. For those reasons, I am rejecting your argument on grounds of irrelevance.
It's not safe to say that at all.
All counties in LA MSA and the Bay Area went blue. Miami MSA as well. I haven't looked but almost definitely NYC, Boston, and DC MSA as well.
HRC was a moderate candidate whereas Trump was extremely to the right like we haven't seen since Goldwater. Obviously, that's something to take into consideration when you have roughly 50% voting for an extremist and another 50% voting for a moderate.
Thread title says city. It is safe to say most every city is more blue, and its suburbs more red. For those reasons, I am rejecting your argument on grounds of irrelevance.
If you read the entire OP, the poster conflates cities and metros (a common mistake in c-d). So I guess everybody wins!
HRC was a moderate candidate whereas Trump was extremely to the right like we haven't seen since Goldwater. Obviously, that's something to take into consideration when you have roughly 50% voting for an extremist and another 50% voting for a moderate.
Trump is a bit more populist/anti-establishment compared to other Republicans. Nothing like a Ted Cruz.
All counties in LA MSA and the Bay Area went blue. Miami MSA as well. I haven't looked but almost definitely NYC, Boston, and DC MSA as well.
Boston, all of the Mass counties went Clinton. The New Hampshire counties went Trump. New York, Staten Island, which is a borough within NYC, went Trump. So too did Suffolk County (Long Island). Washington, the more exurban counties went Trump.
Sacramento is only conservative in comparison to nearby San Francisco. It is well to the left of the nation as a whole, and compared to most major Sunbelt metros. Agreed on the other two areas, although the urban cores of Indianapolis and Cincinnati are rather liberal these days.
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