2008 Election by Community Size

[Alcon]

I really don't trust these numbers, because of how exit polls are conducted.  I mean, rural South Dakota for Obama?  No.

[Alcon]

I really don't trust these numbers, because of how exit polls are conducted.  I mean, rural South Dakota for Obama?  No.

I don't see your problem. McCain did get a bigger percentage of the vote from the three largest counties in SD than from the state at large.

[runs away so Alcon can't hurt him]

Actually, I'll totally buy (because of Rapid City) Obama doing better in "Small Town" than "Urban," but "Rural" no.

And the reservation counties are a combined 15,000 votes max.  Besides, by and large reservations aren't truly rural.  The residential areas frequently have impressive density.  Although I guess you could argue they're in a rural environment but blablablabla.

I could go about complaining about how locational selection methods make this particularly sub-stat of exit polls (and exit polls in general, arguably) completely useless, but that's a lot of effort to reply to an unserious post