What happened to AA County?

espantoonMP · Nov 10, 2016

AA county switched from being reliably RED to BLUE this election cycle. What happened? Apparently this is the first time since the 1950s that the county has voted dem. Here in Pasadena i was willing to bet it 9/10 Trump supporters. What gives?

Mark75H · Nov 10, 2016

Take a look at the numbers it was incredibly close

scout6 · Nov 10, 2016

Had a nice right up, comparing numbers, but lost it. Looked like voter turnout overall plus a big shift to 3rd party votes. Don't have time to repost numbers (need to get back to work) Trump received fewer votes than Romney in 2012, and McCain in 2008. Clinton numbers were just as low.

Mr H · Nov 10, 2016

I'd put a nickel down on a combination of the continuing expansion of Arundel Mills, and the explosive BRAC-related development around Meade/Odenton.

5.56blaster · Nov 10, 2016

It's in Maryland that's the problem.

GoGoGadget · Nov 10, 2016

Mr H said:
I'd put a nickel down on a combination of the continuing expansion of Arundel Mills, and the explosive BRAC-related development around Meade/Odenton.

This, plus most of the neighbors that have recently moved into my neighborhood are all NY, NJ, and CT transplants...

AACo · Nov 10, 2016

Mr H said:
I'd put a nickel down on a combination of the continuing expansion of Arundel Mills, and the explosive BRAC-related development around Meade/Odenton.

Agree to all the above, and add Annapolis.

GunLvrPhD · Nov 10, 2016

Any enclaves of illegals in AA?

platoonDaddy · Nov 10, 2016

GoGoGadget said:
This, plus most of the neighbors that have recently moved into my neighborhood are all NY, NJ, and CT transplants...

AACo said:
Agree to all the above, and add Annapolis.

AMEN, and would add PG County transplants. My neighborhood the last 15 years, went from Red to Blue.

Mr H · Nov 10, 2016

Analpolis is a given.

Overall, they haven't had much of a dampening effect in the county overall.

But, this brings us back to something I tried to emphasize in 2014...

District 32 is generally (outside of Analpolis) the top problematic district in the county with regard to D voting and representation. It almost got turned in '14. Time to kill it in '18!

ironpony · Nov 10, 2016

platoonDaddy said:
AMEN, and would add PG County transplants. My neighborhood the last 15 years, went from Red to Blue.

Same here.

Okletsfish · Nov 10, 2016

When they imploded the high rise public housing in Baltimore City,hence AA co. population increased.

mjbjhu · Nov 10, 2016

GoGoGadget said:
This, plus most of the neighbors that have recently moved into my neighborhood are all NY, NJ, and CT transplants...

as a NY by way of CT transplant, I can assure you that not all of us vote Dem.

gorckat · Nov 10, 2016

AA voted blue in the presidential, but red in the congressional according to a map I saw earlier.

If it was as close as mentioned above, may have just been an anti-Trump sentiment and not a total flip.

psusra112 · Nov 10, 2016

It's become one of the affordable counties near Fort Meade/Baltimore. Millennials are flocking, as are lower salary DoD folks.

Pinecone · Nov 11, 2016

gorckat said:
If it was as close as mentioned above, may have just been an anti-Trump sentiment and not a total flip.

116,074 to 114,509

That is pretty close, 1,565 votes out of 230,583 votes.

espantoonMP · Nov 11, 2016

Wow. I didn't realize it was this close. Still a damn shame. While I was happy for a Trump candidacy I wonder if a more "mainstream" candidate would have done better in MD/AA.

As far as voter turnout I suppose the long lines/ paper ballot scanners made it seem like record voter turnout.

Pinecone · Nov 11, 2016

The killers are PG, MoCo and Balt City, in that order.

Balt City - 178,562 to 22,726 - 155,836

MoCo - 309,761 to 82,985 - 222,776

PG - 313,627 to 29,290 - 284,373

Those 3 are 662,949 plus for Hillary, versus an overall margin of 624,305.

Matlack · Nov 11, 2016

We won't know until they post the certified results in a few weeks. That will give us a precinct by precinct breakdown. The Republican party worked hard this election, so it's a surprise. There was a large consortium of never Trump among party loyalists. There were some who had hoped he would lose because they feel it would mean gains on the local level. This thought was unbelievably stupid as that meant giving up the supreme Court for decades.

D32 has been shifting more conservative with the growth from BRAC and the mall. The last election should have been a blow out by over 7k votes, but it was just as close as previous years <2k. Id guess it was due to conservative districts like 31 and 33.

Mark75H · Nov 11, 2016

gorckat said:
AA voted blue in the presidential, but red in the congressional according to a map I saw earlier.

If it was as close as mentioned above, may have just been an anti-Trump sentiment and not a total flip.

AA is in at least 3 different Gerrymandered districts. You'd have to have the precinct by precint breakdown to see how AA actually went.

What happened to AA County?

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