The Georgia Counties That Had the Most Support for Donald Trump
After Tuesday’s presidential primary in Georgia, you probably know that Donald Trump won every one of Georgia’s 159 counties except for Clarke, Cobb, DeKalb, and Fulton. And when you look at a map of the race, you see a sea of red except for those four. That isn’t very helpful in determining where The Donald is strongest, so I went ahead and put together this map:
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The lightest county is DeKalb, where only 25.2% of voters chose Donald Trump on their ballots. Atkinson county in southeast Georgia is the deepest shade of orange, with 65.9% of its voters being Trump supporters. In general, Trump enjoyed the least support in metro Atlanta, and slightly more support in the Peach State’s larger cities, including Augusta, Columbus, and Savannah. For the most part, Trump’s support was lower in the mountains than it was below the fall line, and strongest in southwest Georgia.
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Jon, I was listen to the Morning Joe show, and they made this very point why Trump will win Florida. Joe who was a GOP congressman from the area said that is Trump country in Florida. The areas outside the major metro areas are strong holds, and that support is strong for Trump. This was the place that was suppose to be Cruz country. I wonder why he did not catch on in that area verse Trump. My bet is Social Security and Medicare, I think the privatize message by Cruz scares a lot of the people. A majority of Tea a Party members do not want Medicare and SS to change…..
Keep in mind that Joe is a prominent Trump supporter.
He said he would of voted for Bush and now would vote for Kasich on his show. I think he has merely, look at the situation objectively. I have been very open about my support of Kasich, with that said I have also not put blinders on about the situation.
Scarborough loves Trump so much, he disqualified him – http://money.cnn.com/2016/02/29/media/joe-scarborough-donald-trump-david-duke/
As a regular viewer of Morning Joe, I will argue there is no way you could imply with credibility that they favor Trump. Joe constantly talks about arguments he has with his Trump supporting brother. Not to mention the number of guests both regular and occasional who blast Trump. Lindsay Graham was on so many times criticizing Trump, I thought he was part of the show.
I agree 100%!
That’s a cool map, Jon.
I thought it was especially clever of Trump’s people to hold their Valdosta rally late. The two major TV markets down their are Albany and Tallahassee. North Florida above I-4 is politically and culturally a lot more like south Georgia and Alabama than it is Atlanta. Valdosta is just as close to Tampa and Orlando as Atlanta, and Jacksonville is much closer.
I commend your choice to use deepening shades of orange for increased Trump support.
Seems like Rubio got the Romney vote from the 2012 presidential primary, winning the upper crust areas like Buckhead, Dunwoody and Sandy Springs. But once you got outside the upper-crust areas, it was largely Trump territory this time (and Gingrich territory 4 years ago).
Thought Trump had a good line last night when questioned by Cruz about electability, noting that Trump has won 10 of the 15 contests so far, compared to 4 fo4 Cruz and a mere one—the obscure Minnesota primary—for Rubio. Speaking of Rubio, he would not even admit that Florida is a “must win” state for him March 15; of course he gamely insists he will win it (the polls show otherwise), but he should show some backbone and say if he does not win it, he will drop out of the race. Same if Kasich loses Ohio. I mean, how can anyone take you seriously as a viable candidate if after March 15 you are 0 for 20-something or 1 for 20-something in the earlier contests? Also worth nothing that since 1980, no Republican has gotten the GOP nomination without winning at least 1 of the 3 early contests—Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina—and of course Kasich and Rubio came up empty-handed in those contests.