County Swing Map

[Schiff for Senate]

It's just striking how in many states, particularly in the Midwest as well as some others (MO, IN, WI, MI, ND, OR, WY, MT, UT, NV, WA, and TN, to name some) had every county swing toward Romney, while in MS and other southern states tons of counties swung toward Obama (majority-black counties in many cases). Orleans Parish (New Orleans) swung huge toward Obama. (On the other hand, no county in TN swung toward Obama.) There also appears to be some correlation between swinging toward Obama in 2012 to swinging toward Trump in 2020 - Southeast FL and South TX, prominent examples of Trump gaining ground even as he lost reelection nationally, swung toward Obama in 2012 as well, even as Obama did worse in 2012 than in 2008. What I also find quite interesting is that 3 of MA's 14 counties (Suffolk and two in Western Massachusets) swung further to the left (all counties in MA supported Obama in both 2008 and 2012) - even though 2012 was a redder year nationally than 2008, and the fact that the GOP nominee was Romney, the former governor of Massachusetts.