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KY/Hiking/Map guy. NKU '22. Pragmatic Progressive. Grad Student. He/him. Blue Ridge hype man. Atheist. Views my own. https://t.co/R1KBRF2X9u
Nov 13, 2022 4 tweets 3 min read
Ohio's 13th Congressional district was rated Leans Republican by most forecasters prior to E-Day, but @EmiliaSykesOH managed to win the seat. It contains parts of Stark and Portage counties, and all of Summit County. She outperformed Biden, winning by 5 points #ElectionTwitter Image Sykes's huge numbers in Akron and the Canton propers were key factors in her success, but also doing decently in the suburbs around them (ex. Stow, Twinsburg). There are only 4 precincts (some of them split) from Portage County in the seat
Dec 13, 2020 5 tweets 3 min read
The Shenandoah Valley (as defined by the VA department of tourism) is pretty Republican area, but Joe Biden managed to crack 40% in 2020. He mainly did well in the cities of Winchester, Lexington, Staunton, and Harrisonburg (more maps in thread) #ElectionTwitter Biden did about 7 points better than Obama in 2012, improving in the cities, and Augusta and Rockingham counties, while doing worse in Rockbridge and some of the northern counties
Dec 12, 2020 11 tweets 4 min read
Ohio was a painful result for Democrats this year, and to help show why and compare it to other results, here's my concept of urbanized Northern Ohio. Biden won 3 counties with large cities (Cuyahoga, Summit, and Lucas), and lost Mahoning and Lorain #ElectionTwitter Losing Mahoning and Lorain are significant because Clinton narrowly carried these 2 counties in 2016, and they had been going for Democrats by double digits in years prior and other races. Notably, Sherrod Brown carried both by wide margins in 2018 (more maps below)
Dec 11, 2020 7 tweets 4 min read
Alright gang, many of you know that I'm very for this district in North Carolina being made post-census. It fairly well encompasses my idea of Western North Carolina (though its by no means exclusive), so I made some maps of that for tonight #ElectionTwitter Image Here's the recent Presidential election. Biden did well in Asheville and Boone in the district, and represented a dramatic increase from Clinton's 2016 share of the vote (next) (Note: all %s are in 2 party vote share) Image
Dec 4, 2020 6 tweets 2 min read
So Kim Wyman is now the only statewide Republican on the Pacific, and she won by winning some normally Democratic areas of Washington (Thurston, Pierce, Snohomish, etc.), while Democrats won all of the other offices. Here's her performance vs Inslee's (1/4) #ElectionTwitter This compares who got a higher percentage of the vote in each county. Inslee did better in 2 counties that Wyman won (Snohomish and Kitsap), as well as all of the counties that she lost, with Wyman doing better everywhere else (2/4)
Dec 3, 2020 4 tweets 3 min read
Some of you may have heard of Kentucky's Attorney General, Daniel Cameron, and how he likes to try to undo basically anything Andy Beshear does. So here's how we got him. He ran against state Sen. Will Schroder from Wilder, and won by a fair amount (1/3) #ElectionTwitter #kypol Cameron was a football player at U of L, and Mitch McConnell's protege, so he had reasonable downstate clout. Schroder dominated in his/my home district (Campbell, Bracken, and Pendleton counties), and in the surrounding area, basically just winning KY-04 (2/3)