2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: A question for those who think Trump will defy the consensus and win in November. [View all]CobaltBlue
(1,122 posts)I went ahead and responded with numerous answers.
I am curious as to which county you are living in in the state of California.
To me, a big county which stands out is Orange County (Santa Ana).
According to Wikipedia.org, Orange County, California is, "As of the 2010 census, the population was 3,010,232[5] making it the third-most populous county in California, the sixth-most populous in the United States, and more populous than twenty-one U.S. states."
When Lyndon Johnson landslided Barry Goldwater by +22.58 percentage points, winning about 61 percent of the vote in the U.S. Popular Vote, and 44 states plus District of Columbia, for 486 electoral votes, Orange County actually carried for Goldwater.
At the presidential level, it is a notoriously Republican-voting country.
Orange County hasn't carried for a Democrat, at the presidential level, since Franklin Roosevelt won 46 (of a then-48) states and 523 (of a then-531) electoral votes with his second-term re-election back in 1936.
@ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange_County,_California