Map of counties that flipped in 2012

[minionofmidas]

A map of all the counties that flipped at any point between 2000 and 2012, with 14 different colors (actually 13 at most, I know there's no DDRD county in there) for the different ways to flip, would be totally cute.

[minionofmidas]

Luna County, New Mexico is interesting. The median income there is about $27k and the county is majority Latino. Yet it voted for Romney.

Are a lot of the Latinos there old-stock Spanish-or-Mexican-Americans?

Republican candidates haven't received a vote from those people in a generation.

[minionofmidas]

Romney picked up  a few 2008 Obama counties each in CA and in Oregon too. Ok 2 of the CA counties are in the moderate to conservative areas of CA. The 1 county that Romney picked up is in Mike Thompson's(D) district I think which is in the northwest part of the state.

Romney narrowly flipped back the three remarkable D gains of 2008 that were not in SoCal or the San Joaquin Valley - Nevada, Butte and Trinity.