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[Rockefeller GOP]

Don't have much time, because I'm on my phone and traveling today, but I live in Bangor, ME (lovely town if you get the chance to visit!), which is located in Penobscot County.  It's a little over 150,000, mostly White (this is Maine, after all) and fairly affluent or working class depending on where you are.  Its politics, like all of Maine, are complicated.  Looking at registration statistics, there are still more registered Republicans in the county then Democrats.  We have voted for Collins and Snowe every time they've run, but who hasn't??  In POTUS elections, we've done this:

2012 - Obama (D)
2008 - Obama (D)
2004 - Kerry (D)
2000 - Bush (R)
1996 - Clinton (D)
1992 - Clinton (D) ... Definitely due to Perot split here...
1988 - Bush (R)
1984 - Reagan (R)
1980 - Reagan (R)
1976 - Ford (R)
1972 - Nixon (R)
1968 - Humphrey (D)
1964 - Johnson (D)
All GOP before this except for Roosevelt in 1912.

Our vote for Governor has been all over the place over the years, just like the rest of the state (though mostly Republican).  We voted for Independent Angus King, and we voted for LePage in 2010.  We're represented by a mix of Democrats and Republicans in the state legislature.

Seems like a lot of people with my views around here, though I'm probably more loyal to the party in voting habits.