Republican cities that voted for Obama

[politicaladdict]

I was wondering how Obama got the most prominent republican cities that not even Clinton got

For example, Obama got

Reno and Carson City, Nevada

Birmingham, Alabama

Dallas and Houston, Texas

Indianapolis, Indiana (although voted for Kerry in 04)

Lincoln and Omaha, Nebraska

Charleston, South Carolina

Lexington, Kentucky

Cincinnati, Ohio

Tampa, Florida

Salt Lake City, Utah

San Diego, California

and probably more.
Ok I found Clinton got San Diego in 1992 and Tampa 1996 but still

It seems that Obama generally got almost all cities. why is that?

Is it that many people want change? I know there also those who didn't vote for Obama or Mccain. Does that have anything to do with it?

Obama got 52.87% of the vote while Mccain got 45.62% of the vote.
More likely way less for Mccain than an Increase for Obama which tells me alot didn't vote for Mccain or Obama.

Is this because Mccain wasn't that conservative enough?

I know this guy who originally voted for Ron Paul, but eventually voted for Obama because he said that Republicans used to be for a stimulus bill(presumbly the bailout) but says that republicans are now lying about not wanting a stimulus just to hurt Obama.

The truth is, that CONSERVATIVE-REPUBLICANS never wanted a stimulus or bailout, just the moderates.   

So if people are also voting Obama this reason ,this is just retarded. Voting for someone for an itsy-bitsy reason.

I don't think this country is Left, I think it's still a Centre-Right country. So, there something else to voting for this guy than liberalism.

[The Ex-Factor]

Urbanites are becoming more socially liberal, and thus increasingly repulsed by the Republican party's social conservatism. Sarah Palin's bashing of city people probably didn't help much either.

[Husker]

I can't speak for other cities, but part of it here was a democrat actually acknowledged that (at least part of) the state of NE exists. There has long been a split in this part of the country between moderate and conservative republicans. Some of the moderates that have voted republican in presidential elections voted for Obama this past time. This trend will continue if the GOP doesn't mend its ways a bit.