Watching my county turn blue!

[Emit]

Washoe County, NV turned blue!!

Where's yours?

[Drunken Irishman]

1. Lucky. Mine was blue in '08, went red in '12. :(

[Emit]

2. I was skeptical for Washoe

The Republicans had really beefed up their voter registration after 2008. It was a hard fought ground game with lots of voter registration and then id'ing and turning out the vote. We were neck and neck up north.

[amuse bouche]

3. Hillsborough Fl

Wheeeee. The blue dot in the back of the flaccid dong

And Nate Silver said, if Hillsborough goes blue, Obama takes Fl. He is very good at math

[BainsBane]

4. Way to go Hillsborough

But when the hell is Florida going to get their results in?

[Samjm]

5. CO

That BIG pink county in the North of CO.

But it is PINK. It's always been staunchly RED.

[BainsBane]

6. Hennepin County, Minnesota

Blue this year and every year. MN-05--Keith Ellison's district--had the highest voter turnout in the nation in 2008. We're hoping we beat that record this year.

We also defeated an amendment banning same sex marriage and a voter ID amendment that would have ended same-day registration.

[Emit]

7. Cool!

That's a great claim to fame! Voter turn out is our area is always an issue, and one I've been following for a while here locally. Any specific reason why your county has such a high voter turnout, other than just having civic-minded people living in your area?

[BainsBane]

11. MN has same day voter registration

Which gives MN high voter turnout. Democrats depend on Minneapolis to turn out the majority of votes for the state. I'm not sure why else, other than the Obama campaign concentrated heavily on the area in both elections.

[Emit]

14. Ahh, I see - I wish all states had same day voter registration.

thanks for the info!

[SoapLovah]

8. Sacramento Co., CA. Getting bluer every year :)

The city is bright blue. The county less so. I live between Sac City and Rancho Cordova. Still very blue here

[ScreamingMeemie]

9. Harris County, TX

Less blue than 2008 but still FREAKING blue... That little roundish county (Houston) just north of the Gulf.

[Emit]

10. Yup!

Used to live there a long time ago. Glad to see Harris County turn blue - looks like the Dallas/Ft. Worth area and Austin did, too. Sadly, many of my FB 'friends' from TX are very anti-Obama, so much so that they are really fretting today. Loving the map!

[Indpndnt]

13. Travis County still represents, too!

[BainsBane]

15. Former Travis County resident here

go Austin!

[HereSince1628]

12. I'd like to know about the counties in eastern IA, NW IL, SE MN and SW Wisconsin

Those counties have demographics similar to what the Dems need to bridge the urban-rural divide in much of the midwest.

What issues/history are responsible for that geographic cluster?

[Emit]

16. You mean that beautiful big stretch of blue amongst the corners of those 4 states?

Interesting point and question. I'd like to know, too.

[HereSince1628]

17. Yes. THAT big stretch of blue.

wassup with that?

[Emit]

24. Good ol' midwestern values?

[HereSince1628]

25. I wish I knew.

But I don't.

[tledford]

18. Guilford County, NC, by 18 points. eom

[mim89]

19. We Got Redistricted

We got redistricted from Bill Pascrell (D) to A Republican one, SMH

[Emit]

22. Bummer, mim89

that sucks

[Avalux]

20. Bexar County, Texas...little blue dot right in the middle.

And proud to say we elected Joaquin Castro to the House.

[Emit]

23. Very nicely done, Bexar County!!

Little blue dot in sea of red but makes all the difference!

[WhollyHeretic]

21. Hartford County is blue to the tune of +26% though my town did go for Mittwit by 2%