2012 election results by state minus largest county

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Michigan and Wayne, County (much of the latter Detroit)

Barack H. Obama       595,846    72.83%
Willard Mitt Romney      213,814    26.13%



What can you say about Detroit? The Republican Party barely exists there.

Statewide:

Barack H. Obama       2,564,569    54.09%   
Willard Mitt Romney      2,115,256    44.61%     



Michigan without Wayne County:

Willard Mitt Romney      2,102,034
Barack H. Obama       1,860,723



Michigan politics is simple: Democrats run up the Democratic numbers in Greater Detroit or lose. So it is with Illinois and Greater Chicago.    

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Those are fitting images of Michigan -- so please try to modify my previous post so that the images show.

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In 2008, Barack Obama lost the popular vote if one ignores 65 governmental units. Those include 64 or so county-level governments (including such 'independent cities' ranging in size from Fredericksburg, Virginia to San Francisco) and the District of Columbia. The characteristic of those 65 political units was that those are the most densely-populated such places in America. Some such areas that he lost were Tarrant County in Texas, Maricopa County in Arizona,  Monmouth County in New Jersey, Richmond County (Staten Island) in New York, and Orange County in California -- but not by much. Needless to say he won big in places like Manhattan, Brooklyn, Philadelphia, Chicago, Detroit, Miami, Denver, Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati, Indianapolis, Milwaukee, the Twin Cities, the Quad Cities, Albuquerque, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle, Portland (either one)...