Romney didn't get that particular swing anywhere. We should just forget the theory that Romney appealed to these people.
Indeed. As I pointed out in the other NJ thread, the interesting results in NJ were not in Ocean County, but rather in urban North Jersey. Hudson County had one of the larger pro-Obama swings in the country, and all of the big Obama swings in NJ were in urban North Jersey counties (Hudson, Essex, Union, Passaic) plus suburban Middlesex.
This was a very interesting result, indeed. I thought if anything Obama would see some swings in the more "progressive" blue collar SJ towns. He did, but he got great MOVs in and around NYC. I would not have guessed that one... this was supposed to be where Romney had appeal.
http://mpregcentral.activeboard.com/forum.spark?aBID=138263&topicID=41809869&p=3 Census says median household income there is $59k. All richers?
OC is a mix of rich olds and the trashy guido types that give Jersey its awful reputation.
The trashy guidos are merely the offspring of the rich olds. This was prime Romney territory. As noted, Romney did well in the more affluent parts of SE PA.
No, this was a Sandy effect. NJ voters swing on single issues like this all the time. Gun control in 2000, 9/11 effect in 2004, nothing in particular in 2008... and now Sandy in 2012. The only other states to swing his way were LA, MS, and AK. The hurricane had the 2 point effect I said it would in an argument with Simfan.
