Since 1992, Blaine County has gained a reputation as a Democratic Party enclave in strongly Republican Idaho.[15] The Democratic presidential candidate has won the county in every election since
Blaine County Idaho is cultural cut-off from the real world. This is my first post about the need for Blainians to secede from Idaho, and become a part of Oregon. Once this is done, there will be a cultural exchange, where once a month twenty Blanians are picked in a lottery to go on a simulated Funny Farm Fishing Expedition. Attend a Dandy Warhols Rave in Portland. And enjoy a Crab Fest in Charleston.
Note the ugly throbbing red attackment to the County of the Deprived – not The Depraved!
John Presco
President: Royal Rosamond Press
“A lot of Idahoans feel like their voices are not being heard, and I think that can be directly tied to the Republican supermajority control of our state and the fact that since they closed their primary and the party continues to veer towards the extreme right, they have embarrassed our state,” Necochea said. “We continue to make national news for our extreme policies and extreme things that Republican politicians have said. I think people are concerned about the future of Idaho, and I can see why they would affiliate so they would vote in the Republican Party and make sure dangerous people like Janice McGeachin don’t become our governor.”
Annual Charleston Crab Feed
FEB 11, 2023
Join your friends from Oregon’s Adventure Coast: Coos Bay, North Bend & Charleston for a feast of delicious Dungeness Crab at the 38th Annual Charleston Crab Feed!
https://sos.idaho.gov/elect/VoterReg/2020/01/partybycounty.html
Mike Crapo (R) | 60.7 | 358,539 | ||
| David Roth (D) | 28.7 | 169,808 |
https://www.politico.com/2022-election/results/idaho/
| Stephen Heidt | 120,158 | 20.28% | |
| I Ammon Bundy | 101,837 |
1,023,850
https://sos.idaho.gov/elect/VoterReg/2020/01/partybycounty.html
Registered Voters: 907,276 (50.77% of pop.)
Democratic Party: 127,499 (14.05%)
Republican Party: 487,639 (53.75%)
Third Party/Other: 11,387 (1.26%)
Unaffiliated: 280,751 (30.94%)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blaine_County,_Idaho
Government and politics[edit]
Since 1992, Blaine County has gained a reputation as a Democratic Party enclave in strongly Republican Idaho.[15] The Democratic presidential candidate has won the county in every election since; that year, incumbent George H. W. Bush finished third behind Bill Clinton and Ross Perot.[16] In 2000 and 2004, Blaine was the only Idaho county carried by Al Gore and John Kerry, respectively.[17][18][19][20] Barack Obama carried the county in 2008 by a 33.2% margin over John McCain, while McCain won statewide by a 25.3% margin.[21] It was one of three counties (Latah, Teton) in Idaho won by Obama in 2008, and by far the highest margin.[22] In 2020, Joe Biden defeated incumbent Donald Trump in the county by 36.8 percentage points, with his 67.1% vote share being the highest for any Democrat since 1900.
Obama also carried Blaine County in 2012 with 58.8 percent of the vote, compared to Mitt Romney‘s 38.7 percent. Blaine County was the only Idaho county in which Obama received over 50 percent of the vote, although he also carried Latah County with 49.6 percent of the vote. From 1968 through 1988, a less populated Blaine County was won by the Republican candidate in all six presidential elections, as was the state of Idaho, although even then the county voted more Democratic than Idaho as a whole in every election going back to 1924.[23]
https://www.co.blaine.id.us/CivicAlerts.aspx?CID=18
- million
Democrats, 1,006,266
- Republicans, 711,344
- Independent, 123,189
- Libertarian, 19,215
- Working Families, 9,128
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_party_strength_in_U.S._states
https://worldpopulationreview.com/states/idaho-population
1,920,562
White: 88.41%
- Two or more races: 4.28%
- Other race: 3.77%
- Asian: 1.4%
- Native American: 1.31%
- Black or African American: 0.66%
- Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander: 0.18%
Boise Demographics
According to the most recent ACS, the racial composition of Boise was:
- White: 87.97%
- Two or more races: 4.35%
- Asian: 3.12%
- Other race: 2.06%
- Black or African American: 1.62%
- Native American: 0.66%
- Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander: 0.22%
https://sos.idaho.gov/elect/VoterReg/2020/01/partybycounty.html
| 112,411 |
| 439,906 |
| 308,784 |
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-elections/idaho-president-results
Numbers show just a small shift in party affiliation in Idaho
The number of registered Republicans went up from 531,420 in January to 546,226. That’s an increase of 14,806 registered GOP voters, or a 2% increase.
Still, the minority party holds only around 20% of the seats in the Legislature. “So it’s unfortunate that our mainstream views are so under-represented among the people who make the laws. And that’s what we’re working to change,” she said.
I asked both major state party chairs about the numbers on Friday, but heard back only from Democratic state Chair Lauren Necochea. “This isn’t some big, huge swing,” she said. “We’re talking about a few thousand voters.”
“A lot of Idahoans feel like their voices are not being heard, and I think that can be directly tied to the Republican supermajority control of our state and the fact that since they closed their primary and the party continues to veer towards the extreme right, they have embarrassed our state,” Necochea said. “We continue to make national news for our extreme policies and extreme things that Republican politicians have said. I think people are concerned about the future of Idaho, and I can see why they would affiliate so they would vote in the Republican Party and make sure dangerous people like Janice McGeachin don’t become our governor.”
However, she said, “I will also say that when you look at the difference between the supposed moderates and the extreme elements, it’s more of a difference of style than substance. We still see in the Idaho House of Representatives the majority of Republicans taking very extreme votes and voting against things that are popular among the majority of Idahoans.” Necochea is the current House assistant minority leader.
She cited Medicaid expansion, which passed by voter initiative with 61% support statewide after lawmakers refused to consider it for six straight years; and last year’s House rejection of a $6 million federal early learning grant, saying, “Investments in preschool are very popular among Idahoans.”
She also noted that Idaho Democrats still have an open primary, while the Republican party is closed to anyone other than registered Republicans. “So our voter registrations understate our support,” Necochea said. “We might be a small number of the registrations, but in statewide races usually carry close to 40% of the vote.”
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