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North Reading might be a contender. McCain received 51% of the vote there. I believe the town is also represented by Republicans in the state House and Senate. It might be too small to count as a city though and I don't know if it'd be conservative by national standards.
Tewksbury seems to be the largest town to be won by McCain, although it might be a suburb. Plymouth was kind-of close, by the standard of larger Massachusetts towns, and is represented by a Republican in the Massachusetts House of Representatives. Not sure how conservative any of these places are though.
Liberal=ketchum/sun valley
Conservative= rexburg/idaho falls
Moderate/conservative= coeur d'Alene
Moderate/liberal= boise
Left Nampa/Caldwell off the conservative list. Maybe not so socially conservative as IF/Rexburg. But Canyon County once again overwhelmingly supported Bill Sali even though he lost or it was close in other counties in the district.
I guess if you listed all the conservative cities in Idaho you'd be here awhile since you could count the liberal ones on one hand. But Nampa is the second largest city so represents a large voting block.
Pocatello has always supported democrats at the state level because of the big union presence. Some places like Tetonia and other resort towns on the Eastern border and near Yellowstone are starting to go the way of Sun Valley. Teton county on the Wyo border was one of only three counties here to vote for Obama in 08.
Socially Conservative/Fiscally Liberal:
St. Paul
Duluth
Hibbing
Virginia
Mankato
Grand Rapids
South St. Paul
Moderate
St. Cloud
Rochester
Moorehead
East Grand Forks
White Bear Lake
Bemidji
Bloomington
Conservative: Stillwater
Mahtomedi
Woodbury
Edina
Eden Praire
Anoka
Blaine
Brainard
Forest Lake
Wilmar
Albert Lea
Worthington
Thief River Falls
Crookston
Owatonna
Conservative = Orange County, San Diego and Fresno
Fresno is more moderate, not conservative. The area backed Obama by a slim margin, in Fresno County, Obama got 50.3% to McCain's 48.2%. McCain won in Orange County and Kern County (Bakersfield) along with other counties, making them more conservative than Fresno in my mind.
Funny thing about Fresno is that is used to be strongly Democratic back when most of California was more Republican.
Check out some past election results:
1960 - Nixon wins California over Kennedy (but Kennedy wins the Presidency). Fresno County supported Kennedy.
1968 - Nixon wins the Presidency, including California. But Humphrey wins in Fresno County.
1976 - Ford wins California but loses the Presidency to Carter. Fresno County voted for Carter.
Most people also don't know that in 1970 a building at Fresno State was firebombed during anti-war protests. Shades of Berkeley back then.
One interesting California county is Shasta. Shasta was one of the only counties in California to be won by George McGovern. However from 1980 to today it's always went for the Republican Presidential candidate. It has also consistently been represented by Republicans in that period. Anyone from the area know what happened there? (As I recall this is one of strongest "veered Republican" counties outside the US South)
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