An awful lot of fuss about the whopping 700 voters in Alpine County! Since .00564% of the state's voters live there, it could be crucial!
It's an interesting topic of discussion because it used to be an extraordinarily Republican county and now it is not. What's the big deal?
Well from what I understand it's basically 40% Mormon, 25% Peyotist, and 30% young tourism industry workers who were probably mostly born in the Bay Area and the northern part of the Central Valley. (adds to 95% because there's bound to be some people who don't fit in)... and the recent growth (huge in percentage, though small in numbers) is in the last of these figures. Hardly surprising it changed hands, then.