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Title: Charlottesville voted just 13% for Trump, has been trending D for decades Post by: Nichlemn on August 13, 2017, 06:37:16 AM Wikipedia Table (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlottesville,_Virginia#Government_and_politics)
Found it interesting in light of it being in the news. Trump got only 13%, the worst performance by a Republican since 1912, and 9% worse than Romney. Though it's been on a rapid decline - from R-leaning in the 50s and 60s, to voting in the 40%s from 1976 to 1988, 30%s from 1992 to 2000, then 20%s from 2004 to 2012. (Not saying that this really tells us anything about the white supremacist rally). Title: Re: Charlottesville voted just 13% for Trump, has been trending D for decades Post by: Alabama_Indy10 on August 13, 2017, 09:26:38 AM Wikipedia Table (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlottesville,_Virginia#Government_and_politics) Found it interesting in light of it being in the news. Trump got only 13%, the worst performance by a Republican since 1912, and 9% worse than Romney. Though it's been on a rapid decline - from R-leaning in the 50s and 60s, to voting in the 40%s from 1976 to 1988, 30%s from 1992 to 2000, then 20%s from 2004 to 2012. (Not saying that this really tells us anything about the white supremacist rally). Then why'd you post it? Title: Re: Charlottesville voted just 13% for Trump, has been trending D for decades Post by: Mike Thick on August 13, 2017, 11:26:50 AM Wikipedia Table (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlottesville,_Virginia#Government_and_politics) Found it interesting in light of it being in the news. Trump got only 13%, the worst performance by a Republican since 1912, and 9% worse than Romney. Though it's been on a rapid decline - from R-leaning in the 50s and 60s, to voting in the 40%s from 1976 to 1988, 30%s from 1992 to 2000, then 20%s from 2004 to 2012. (Not saying that this really tells us anything about the white supremacist rally). Then why'd you post it? Because it's interesting, and this is a forum about political data? Title: Re: Charlottesville voted just 13% for Trump, has been trending D for decades Post by: Alabama_Indy10 on August 13, 2017, 12:42:22 PM Wikipedia Table (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlottesville,_Virginia#Government_and_politics) Found it interesting in light of it being in the news. Trump got only 13%, the worst performance by a Republican since 1912, and 9% worse than Romney. Though it's been on a rapid decline - from R-leaning in the 50s and 60s, to voting in the 40%s from 1976 to 1988, 30%s from 1992 to 2000, then 20%s from 2004 to 2012. (Not saying that this really tells us anything about the white supremacist rally). Then why'd you post it? Because it's interesting, and this is a forum about political data? Oh, my bad. Interesting! Title: Re: Charlottesville voted just 13% for Trump, has been trending D for decades Post by: Nichlemn on August 13, 2017, 05:32:16 PM It is possible that the Charlottesville rally was very partially related to this trend. Neo-Nazis probably aren't reading up on election statistics, but the D-trend was possibly noticeable in subtle ways, and maybe they were in some way reacting to the increasingly liberal community.
But it could also just be a total coincidence. Title: Re: Charlottesville voted just 13% for Trump, has been trending D for decades Post by: Rookie Yinzer on August 13, 2017, 06:28:11 PM Oh wow. I am surprised the third party votes here didn't defect from Hillary. Seems like it was the Republicans that fled from Trump. I expected a lot of #NeverHillary protest votes in a college town.
Title: Re: Charlottesville voted just 13% for Trump, has been trending D for decades Post by: Adam Griffin on August 15, 2017, 04:33:52 PM Oh wow. I am surprised the third party votes here didn't defect from Hillary. Seems like it was the Republicans that fled from Trump. I expected a lot of #NeverHillary protest votes in a college town. A lot college towns held steady or even expanded their Democratic vote share compared to 2012. Athens-Clarke is a good example of this; she managed to even top Obama's 08 performance. |