“Our county is a bellwether county,” explained Rod Fleck, city planner in Forks, a small city in Washington state built on a once-enormous timber industry.
“We are the last county that how it votes in November has been an indicator of how the presidential election turns out,” Fleck was quoted as saying by AFP.
Between Ronald Reagan’s win in 1980 and Donald Trump’s victory in 2016, just 19 of the several thousand counties across the country always picked the winner.
But in 2020, 18 of them stuck with Trump, who lost the election. Only Clallam County voted for Joe Biden, keeping its record alive.
Like many of the other former bellwethers, Clallam’s demographic profile doesn’t look like that of the US as a whole.It is less diverse — almost 80 per cent of the population is white — with a lower proportion of college-educated voters, and a median household income below the national average.
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