Realisticidealist's 2012 Precinct Map Thread

[JJHW17]

Most Bay Area counties have their SoVs online now so you can see the city-by-city results.

Milpitas actually had the largest swing toward Obama among Bay Area cities at 12% and Daly City had second largest at 8%. Obama underperformed in Milpitas in 2008 compared to other Silicon Valley cities (both Los Altos and Los Gatos beat it), and Daly City was stuck around D-75%/R-23% for 3 consecutive elections, so the large swings Obama got in both cities in 2012 are not that surprising in hindsight. Kind of a delayed reaction against the Republican brand among Bay Area Asians I guess.

No other Bay Area cities as far as I know swung more than 6.5% toward Obama. The generally-wealthier cities in the Peninsula, W/SW Silicon Valley, Central Contra Costa County, Tri-Valley, and Marin County swung against him. Obama narrowly held onto Danville and Clayton, but lost uber-wealthy Atherton and Hillsborough. Results for the other Bay Area incorporated cities are of course, self-explanatory.

[JJHW17]

How's the Chronicle right-wing? Sure the comments section attract a lot of right-wingers who just want to troll the newspaper of the "most liberal city in the US". But the paper, outside of a token right-leaning columnist, is quite liberal-leaning. Heck, it recently ran a story on how a black LA police officer and his family were forced to move out of OC's Yorba Linda after being repeatedly heckled by racist residents, a story that did not even appear on the OC Register.

The SF Examiner, on the other hand, was owned by a right-wing organization for a while and was quite right-wing during that stretch. It recently changed hands though and is now politically-similar to the Chronicle. It endorsed Obama this year after endorsing McCain under its previous owners.

[JJHW17]

Well, considering how much vandalism and other economic damage downtown Oakland suffered during the city's Occupy movement, it's hard to blame any newspaper, conservative or liberal, to criticize the local Occupy groups. Most of the vandalism was caused by opportunistic anarchists, but IMO Occupy should've done more to actively push out those hooligans. Anyways, Oakland's an odd target for Occupy since I believe Clorox is the only Fortune 500 company based there. Heck, Occupy San Ramon (where Chevron is headquartered at) would've been a better idea.