How Kansas voted

County by county on the New York Times map, Kansas was almost entirely red, with three exceptions in the eastern part of the state.

I grew up in Johnson County (above). Knowing the people I grew up with and among, there’s no surprise it went McCain. I wish my good friends who still live there could have helped flip it blue, but that’ll happen when moose fly.

The three counties that went for Obama and why:

Douglas: Home to the University of Kansas. Liberal college students.

Wyandotte: Kansas City, Kansas, lies in this county. Black people.

Crawford: Pittsburg, Kansas, is here. I have no idea why this county swung blue. My only guess is that there’s a teachers college here and that folks in education tend to vote Dem.

C: JoCo went red
C: The times has got a great map where you can see county by county
C: only two kansas counties went blue
AK: Douglas
AK: and WyCo
C: Wyandotte
AK: i’m guessing
C: yep
C: how did you know?
AK: Douglas = Lawrence; WyCo = Black people
C: even JoCo went 54 to 47.4, though
C so almost half of JoCo went for Obama
C: 84.7 to 13.2 for Obama in SF. unsurprisingly!
C: 55.6 to 43.5 for McCain in Lancaster PA
C: But actually I think those numbers show the lack of support for McCain
C: because they should have won those counties
C: with the lopsided-ness of SF
AK: Crawford County in KS also went for Obama