Results for Knott County KY are probably backwards

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And why would coal country hate Obama so much (besides racism)?

Maybe the Republicans did better this time because Bush wasn't their candidate, and folks in Kentucky know Bushstink when they see it. Still, an entire county can't just have a 37% swing to the Republicans when the rest of the country had a 10% swing to the Democrats.

Keep living in fantasyland about the voting trends of your region, pal



Eastern Kentucky was pretty close  to [but not on] the epicenter of the insane anti-Obama shift of Appalachia.  Look at Arkansas, for example, at its entire state-wide swing despite a 10% swing to the Democrats.  If you break it down county-by-county, you're going to get a lot higher results in select counties since the state-wide number is averaged out.

And Obama was running ads in Kentucky!

Them folks just don't like Change

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The parts of Kentucky where Obama was actually running ads swung to him (as did the state as whole btw.)

I thought he was running ads everywhere in Kentucky for the last week or so, just to blow his cash advantage a little more and help pressure the RNC to defend Mitch instead of McCain

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Eastern Kentucky was pretty close  to [but not on] the epicenter of the insane anti-Obama shift of Appalachia.  Look at Arkansas, for example, at its entire state-wide swing despite a 10% swing to the Democrats. 

No part of Arkansas is in Appalachia.

Word, I know.  It's a parallel example showing a similar phenomenon which allows for the clearest example of counter-national swings.