Southeast PA town map

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That PA map is a thing of beauty. Nice job!

Please tell me you're doing Ohio sometime soon. :-)

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Some rankings of municipalities:


BY PERCENTAGE

OBAMA
1.   Yeadon borough (Delaware) 95.21%
2.   Chester city (Delaware) 93.23%
3.   Braddock borough (Allegheny) 90.63%
4.   Wilkinsburg borough (Allegheny) 89.74%
5.   Darby borough (Delaware) 89.71%
6.   Chester township (Delaware) 89.64%
7.   Rankin borough (Allegheny) 89.26%
8.   Colwyn borough (Delaware) 87.64%
9.   Homestead borough (Allegheny) 87.59%
10.   Harrisburg city (Dauphin) 86.79%
11.   Farrell city (Mercer) 85.02%
12.   Coatesville city (Chester) 84.59%
13.   South Coatesville borough (Chester) 84.06%
14.   Swarthmore borough (Delaware) 83.27%
15.   Philadelphia city (Philadelphia) 83.01%
16.   Norristown borough (Montgomery) 82.32%
17.   Reading city (Berks) 80.50%
18.   Cheltenham township (Montgomery) 79.98%
19.   Sharon Hill borough (Delaware) 79.71%
20.   Duquesne city (Allegheny) 78.91%
21.   East Lansdowne borough (Delaware) 78.83%
22.   York city (York) 77.35%
23.   Millbourne borough (Delaware) 76.37%
24.   Lansdowne borough (Delaware) 76.13%
25.   Mount Carbon borough (Schuylkill) 76.00%

Have to say I'm a little disappointed (though not entirely surprised) that Pittsburgh didn't wind up on this list. What were the final percentages for Da Burg?

McCAIN (towns with 5,000+ votes)
1.   Antrim township (Franklin) 74.56%
2.   Adams township (Butelr) 69.68%
3.   Guilford township (Franklin) 67.56%
4.   Peters township (Washington) 67.06%
5.   Pine township (Allegheny) 66.47%
6.   Penn township (Westmoreland) 66.07%
7.   Greene township (Franklin) 65.87%
8.   Loyalsock township (Lycoming) 64.66%
9.   Murrysville borough (Westmoreland) 63.99%
10.   Cranberry township (Butler) 63.96%
11.   Richland township (Allegheny) 63.94%
12.   Hempfield township (Westmoreland) 62.70%
13.   West Lampeter township (Lancaster) 62.29%
14.   North Huntingdon township (Westmoreland) 62.00%
15.   Washington township (Franklin) 61.46%
16.   Unity township (Westmoreland) 61.45%
17.   Logan township (Blair) 61.30%
18.   Fairview township (York) 61.23%
19.   Newberry township (York) 61.15%
20.   South Middleton township (Cumberland) 61.05%
21.   West Hanover township (Dauphin) 60.68%
22.   Sandy township (Clearfield) 60.63%
23.   Warwick township (Lancaster) 60.38%
24.   Penn township (York) 60.09%
25.   Franklin Park borough (Allegheny) 60.09%

A little local color here: Franklin Park barely cracking 60% for a GOP presidential candidate, and neighboring McCandless Township not even hitting that is a very good sign for the slowly evolving "MontCo-ization" (i.e. affluent suburbs turning away from the Republicans) of the North Hills.

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He has won re-election twice as a Republican.

So basically Chester has something that no other major American city with a majority African-American population has.. a functional Republican organization.

Very odd.

Indeed. Anyone know if any/all of these African-American Republicans publicly and overtly supported McCain over Obama? I would assume they tried to stay very quiet on the subject but.....