Niagara County, NY: The most polarized and inelastic county in the nation?

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

2012: Obama 49.4/Romney 48.84
2008: Obama 49.65/McCain 48.65
2004: Kerry 49.29/Bush 48.78

This place just refuses to swing.

[Badger]

Jeez. That's hardcore!

[opebo]

That is one ossified electorate.

[Nichlemn]

Probably just various effects coincidentally cancelling each other out. I noticed you didn't include 2000 despite it being easily accessible (Gore won 51%-44%).

[HST1948]

The thing with Niagara County is you have the city of Niagara Falls which is heavily black and votes like any other minority-majority city, then you have some democratic leaning suburbs of Buffalo (ie. North Tonawanda and Lockport), some cute wine country towns like Lewiston, which if I had to guess are also Democratic learning, the incredibly wealthy Escarpment area which again, I assume is slightly Democratic leaning, and then the rest of the county is farm country which is heavily Republican.  All of this makes for a very polarized county which doesn't budge from election to election.