The Cleveland Plain Dealer has an interesting postmortem about how Hillary Clinton won Ohio by racking up votes in the rural part of the state. Plain Dealer reporter Mark Naymik noted, “It came down to places like ‘The Little Smokies,’ the hilly region where the Scioto and Ohio rivers meet, more than 200 miles south of Cleveland.” In Scioto County, for example, Hillary won with a whopping 81%.
Hillary success in the region was due in no small part to her support from Gov. Ted Strickland (D), who was born in Scioto County and used to represent the Sixth Congressional District along the Ohio River.
J-Mart also picked up on Hill’s success in Ohio Appalachia, noting, “She won every county in Strickland’s old district, many of them with over 70% of the vote.”
That’s true, but Clinton has also dominated in Appalachian counties from Winchester, Va. to Chattanooga, Tenn. In Virginia, she only won one congressional district, and that was rugged Ninth District represented by Rick Boucher, who happens to be a fervent Obama support.
Judging by her success in Appalachia so far, can we expect her to absolutely dominate in Pennsyltucky?
Hillary Clinton’s Ohio Electoral Map (Cleveland Plain Dealer)
Ohio Congressional Districts (Hat tip, Jonathan Martin)
Democratic Virginia Electoral Map (New York Times)
Virginia Ninth Congressional District (NationalAtals.gov)
“Pennsyltucky” (Wikipedia) — everything between Philly and Pittsburgh.
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1 Election Mapping « The Learning Curve // Mar 6, 2008 at 5:36 pm
[...] unique and insightful look at this week’s Ohio Democratic Presidential primary, I recommend Hill is Racking Up Huge Wins in Appalachia on “The Electoral Map - The Intersection of Politics and [...]
2 anon // Mar 6, 2008 at 5:53 pm
Obama-Strickland 08?
3 Citizen Grim // Mar 7, 2008 at 10:25 am
Obama certainly has an uphill fight in Pennsylvania. The quasi-bohemian Philadelphia region will probably go Obama, but Pittsburgh is still a blue collar union town and is surely leaning Clinton. And, as you pointed out, the rest of the state is Appalachia, which she has been winning handily.
Here’s an interesting question: which way would Pennsylvania fall if the race is Clinton-McCain? If it’s Obama-McCain? I think McCain may have some surprising strength in some of these states.
4 Jay O'Callaghan // Mar 12, 2008 at 2:33 pm
Good article and precinct map from the Middletown Journal (Ohio) showing how Obama won the Dayton Ohio area. Black W Dayton went heavily for Obama while white E Dayton was more divided.
http://www.middletownjournal.com/o/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/education/entries/2008/03/07/our_divided_cit.html
5 John Sprouse // Aug 5, 2008 at 9:55 pm
Your wrong on the definition of pennslytucky. It is the area from Pittsburgh to Kentucky and all the hill country the Ohio River Touches. Includes Wva, Ohio. Pa and Kentucky.
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