The one Sanders voter in King County, TX

[Nym90]

Fun fact: King County turnout in Democratic Presidential primaries:

1992-131 votes
2000-79 (Bradley had already dropped out of the race by this time)
2004-57 (Edwards, Dean, Clark all out of race)
2008-84
2016-3

[Nym90]

And number of votes cast for the Democratic Presidential nominee in King County:

1940-266
1944-228
1948-231
1952-189
1956-177
1960-133
1964-180
1968-109
1972-75
1976-100
1980-55
1984-53
1988-64
1992-54 (Clinton got 96 votes in the primary!)
1996-46
2000-14 (Gore got 46 votes in the primary!)
2004-18 (Kerry got 18 votes in the primary)
2008-8 (Obama got 27 votes in the primary!)
2012-5

[Nym90]

And number of votes cast for the Democratic Presidential nominee in King County:

1940-266
1944-228
1948-231
1952-189
1956-177
1960-133
1964-180
1968-109
1972-75
1976-100
1980-55
1984-53
1988-64
1992-54 (Clinton got 96 votes in the primary!)
1996-46
2000-14 (Gore got 46 votes in the primary!)
2004-18 (Kerry got 18 votes in the primary)
2008-8 (Obama got 27 votes in the primary!)
2012-5

Along with the shift to the GOP, king county has been losing population for 70 years now.

True. It's quite a case of "will the last Democrat to leave the county please turn off the lights?".

[Nym90]

And number of votes cast for the Democratic Presidential nominee in King County:

1940-266
1944-228
1948-231
1952-189
1956-177
1960-133
1964-180
1968-109
1972-75
1976-100
1980-55
1984-53
1988-64
1992-54 (Clinton got 96 votes in the primary!)
1996-46
2000-14 (Gore got 46 votes in the primary!)
2004-18 (Kerry got 18 votes in the primary)
2008-8 (Obama got 27 votes in the primary!)
2012-5

I don't understand. First you say Clinton got 54, then you say he got 96?

54 votes in the General Election, 96 in the Democratic primaries - meaning that there were people who voted in the Dem primaries (i.e. they were registered Democrats), but in the General Election crossed over to vote for Bush or Perot.

Exactly. And the numbers in parentheses are just the number of votes the eventual nominee themselves received in the primary, not the total number of votes cast, making the comparison even more surprising.

In 2008 for example, Obama ended up getting fewer than ten percent as many votes in the general as the total number of votes cast in the Dem primary (84)!! Along with fewer than a third as many in the general as he himself received in the primary, thus proving it wasn't just disgruntled Clinton voters switching to the GOP.