Oregon 2016 GE Pres Results

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Any news on the write ins? I remember there being a question of whether or not they are going to be tabulated by person.

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Something is wonky with Benton County on Atlas right now. It has over 120k votes total; write ins are almost beating Trump.

Keep up the good work and hopefully we can get detailed write in data soon.

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Deschutes County was definitely an interesting read. I also had no idea that there were any significant Indians Reservations in Oregon. Any news on the write ins? (On the CA end of things, the SoS should be publishing all of them soon).

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If I may make a request, could you do Lake County next? Keep up the good work!

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Thanks for doing Lake County!

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It's been a while since I've contacted my cells in Klamath County, but I'm assured that they too are waiting for the right time to strike.

To me, the even more shocking thing about Wyden's strength is his support for the TPP (so much that the Working Families Party ran a candidate against him). Not necessarily sure what was on the minds of Trump voters in Lake County, but I'm guessing it wasn't trade.

Did the town of Paisley have any interesting results? It's always fascinating how such a small settlement can actually have a real city structure. Down south in CA, we have a few towns like that, but there's also large "towns" that are unincorporated.

I'd love to see the Republicans waste more money. Hell, my home district (CA-07) is almost a lost cause for Republicans these days. There was a shift in the vote though. Folsom (more educated and home of Intel and Aerojet facilities) trended Dem, while Citrus Heights (lower education on average) trended Republican.

People talk about realignment as if it happens over night, but it really doesn't. It took years for the area where I live to have a slight Dem tilt. Hell, it took a while until Denny Smith finally got the boot. One election isn't the tell-all. The other thing is that the parties aren't like parties in other countries. There's a huge amount of leeway as to what individual people campaign on, which can really throw a kink in finding realignments.

It might take a lot, but people can eventually be persuaded to vote for another party. I think that the Rust Belt was ground zero for that this year. Resource extraction counties had already been going Republican (see Southern Oregon and West Virginia) as Dems became more environmentalist (Nixon did sign a lot of pro-environment bills and Reagan wasn't completely terrible on he subject either).