The county's electorate has the highest percentage of independent voters in California.
Correction: October 19, 2005, Wednesday Because of an editing error, an article on Thursday about a proposed provision for the Texas Constitution to ban same-sex marriage misstated the result of the 2004 presidential election in Harris County, which includes liberal-leaning Houston, and a correction in this space on Friday misstated the size of the county's electorate.
Because of an editing error, an article on Thursday about a proposed provision for the Texas Constitution to ban same-sex marriage misstated the result of the 2004 presidential election in Harris County, which includes liberal-leaning Houston, and a correction in this space on Friday misstated the size of the county's electorate.
Educated in tar-paper shacks without insulation or electricity because the county's white electorate "refused to raise county taxes to pay for new black schools," the students of Moton High struck.
With about 60 percent of the electorate, Maricopa County's political preferences tend to carry the day.
"Traditional Brewster County is a Democratic electorate but culturally conservative, both Mexicans and Anglos, but they're practical.
Given the county's heavily Democratic electorate, whoever wins the party primary Sept. 12 is a cinch to take the general election.
In Westchester, where 65percentt of voters last year rejected Mr. Trump in the general election, Rob Astorino, the incumbent county executive, faces an electorate that has shifted in recent decades to the left.
California still makes voters in six counties, 44percentt of the electorate, use punch-card ballots.
In the waning days of the race, both said getting out the vote, in a county renowned for an apathetic electorate and low turnout, would be key.
