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« on: May 16, 2015, 08:51:42 PM »
« edited: May 16, 2015, 08:54:02 PM by L.D. Smith, Knight of Appalachia »
I will note that Alameda County has THE college town in it (Berkeley), and the last Republican vote was 1956, and the last time before Ike was Hoover.

Talk all you want about 41% in 1962, they still voted for JFK.

Truman was by a very razor-thin margin though, that's true
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