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Wow that is so corrupt! Got curious and looked it up politico.com/2020-elect… Oregon is not all that different from MO politico.com/2020-elect… where the population centers go blue but the rural counties are red. I am in blue Jackson, and they are exporting their rot as high taxes and crime are leading D's to flee to surrounding counties…
Wow that is so corrupt! Got curious and looked it up https://www.politico.com/2020-election/results/oregon/ Oregon is not all that different from MO https://www.politico.com/2020-election/results/missouri/ where the population centers go blue but the rural counties are red. I am in blue Jackson, and they are exporting their rot as high taxes and crime are leading D's to flee to surrounding counties. 2 of them, Platte and Clay to the north, Trump barely eked a win in 2020. R margin shrinks with every election. And even Jackson is really 2 counties - the KC part is deep blue and had their own (corrupt) election board, while the rest of the county - the suburbs went for Trump (although only 50.5%, while KC was 20%). But can't overcome that the population centers cancel out the rural/suburb/exurb vote. I suppose part of OR's problem is the CA refugees. MO was considered a bellwether state until 2012, state had picked the winner in every election for something like 50 years. But went for Romney in 2012 and Trump won handily in 2016 and 2020. A lot of the rural counties were 'Truman Democrats' who had the common sense to see that the D party had left them. S. MO is called the 'bible belt' and they vote their values, many of those counties went 80%+ for Trump. My hubby is a sales rep and travels the state. Says a lot of places people have never taken down their Trump signs/banners/flags.