Anybody know why south central Ohio swung towards Obama in 2012? As far as I can see it's pretty rural and pretty white. Any theories?
Not identical of course, but there are some similarities here as well as differences (this is the 2000-4 swing)... and we can now see there are probably several different things going on at once. At the northwest of both pink areas we have of course the Columbus Metro. Athens hardly needs explaining, either.
Something I find far more interesting and strange is that rural splodge in Western Ohio that has been trending R
hard, standing out similarly on the 2000-12 map.
