The State of Salt Lake.

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There is a county even more blue locally than DuPage County, Illinois and almost as blue as Lake County, Illinois.

Welcome to Salt Lake County, Utah.

There are still over 70,000 votes left to be counted but as of now..

Mitt Romney only leads with just under 50% to Jenny Wilson's 46%. I was not expecting that. Romney's relative underperformance comes entirely from Salt Lake County.

The congressional vote total at this time is 55 to 43 Democratic county wide. Still is behind DuPage/Lake/Will vote percentages though.

Jim Bradley won the at large county council seat 56 to 43.

Liberal County Attorney Sim Gill has won county wide 56 to 43.

Appointed Sheriff Rosie Rivera won and is leading 59% to 40%.

Long time county clerk Sherrie Swenson won 67% to 33%.

Hobbs (D) likely wins the recorder's contest. Currently is at 52%.

Proposition 2 for Medical Marijuana is leading in Salt Lake County 65% to 35% and is the reason why it probably passes in Utah.

Prop 4, which is redistricting reform, may fail statewide in Utah because those mormon hicks in rural Utah and those partisan hacks in Utah County do not want a Democrat in congress from Utah but Salt Lake County is giving it a fighting chance to pass. Leading 59 to 41 there. We still have a chance in 2020 to put it on the ballot as well.

Edit: If McAdams holds on to his extremely thin lead I would like to see Jenny Wilson appointed as Salt Lake County mayor. Her performance against Romney in the county is impressive and she could easily hold it in 2020.

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I think this county is currently lean-to-likely R at the presidential level, meaning that Democrats could win it outright if they have a great year nationally (a la 2008) or there is a strong third party who pulls many Republican voters away (a la 2016).

Additionally, 538's gerrymandering atlas indicates that it is possible to gerrymander the state such that one district includes most (if not all) of Salt Lake County and that this particular district would be a lean-to-likely D district in congressional elections.