Washington and Oregon look quite Republican, even the western parts.
Agreed--- visually just looking at the map, one might well assume that Oregon and Washington are Republican states (Although the same could be said of PA/MI/WI/MN for example).
I wasn't that many decades ago (1988/1992) in Oregon, where you would see pockets of blue in Democratic precincts in the smaller cities/towns and occasional rural precincts in Eastern Oregon, including Baker, Umatilla, Union, and Crook counties for example....
Regarding Western Oregon, you saw small spots of Atlas blue in Southern Oregon Republican counties such as Douglas, Curry and Josephine in '00/'04/'08/'12, basically representing the smaller cities that are the largest population centers in those counties....
You would also see some periodic rural Democratic precincts with greater land area pop up speckled throughout that part of the map.
Coastal Oregon would actually look a lot more Atlas Blue, roughly from Coos Bay/North Bend all the way up the Coast line to the Washington border, including some large land area rural precincts...
We would also see pockets of blue representing small mill towns running along the "Eastern Side" of the Willamette Valley (Western slopes of the Cascade Mountain Range), along with some occasional larger land mass rural precincts with Atlas Blue colors....
It is interesting that although Clinton won Oregon with basically the same percentage as Obama '12 the map makes it look much worse...
The devil is in the details, so although the overall election results map is pretty awesome, in some ways it's even richer with the swing map attached, since it provides us with greater context....!!!
I'll let others with greater intimate knowledge of Washington Presidential Election precinct data speak to our great neighbor to the North....
