What county in the nation had the biggest McCain / Obama split? The best I can find at the moment is my very own San Francisco
Barack Obama – 85% (198, 989)
John McCain --13% (30,888)
Can anyone find a bigger split? Let’s put a minimum of 2,000 votes on it, just for the hell of it.
Shackleford county in Texas is a close runner up at
Obama – 14% (208)
McCain – 85% (1,284)
Though with only 1,505 total votes, it fails my minimum requirement and thus hardly seems comparable.
Does D.C. qualify as a county?
Beaver County in Oklahoma went 89% for McCain, and plenty of other counties in OK can match the 85% split, and every single county in the state went for McCain.
The Bronx went more than 88% for Obama: among larger counties, it’s generally the most Democrat in the country.
My numbers are coming from CNN’s election website.
Prince George’s County in Maryland went 89-11 for Obama.
Ochiltree and Roberts counties in Texas went 92-8 for McCain.
And while it’s not a county, as such, Washington DC went for Obama 93-7.