Benj
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« on: December 30, 2012, 03:27:41 PM » |
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« edited: December 30, 2012, 03:42:38 PM by Benj »
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The swing was also pretty small; SW Bergen is very marginal. We often think of the shift from 51% R to 51% D as if it were more significant than any other shift of 2% of the vote elsewhere on the spectrum.
At a glance, I think the biggest swing was in Palisades Park, which went from just under 60% Obama in 2008 to about 67% Obama this year. Palisades Park is also the most heavily Asian town in Bergen County (Korean, almost entirely). It does look like there were huge swings in the Asian-heavy areas in SE Bergen and to a lesser extent in the Northern Valley.
If someone supplied me with a base map, I'd do a precinct-by-precinct or town map of Bergen County.
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