Above is a graphical representation of how well Charlie Brown did at pulling in conservative voters in each of the 4th District's counties. The width of the columns approximate the relative population of each county.
The graph does not represent Charlie's vote results in each county. Those were wafer thin and alone do little to show how well Charlie did at achieving his primary objective: getting conservatives to vote for him.
To show that, I've measured the percentage of the vote Charlie won beyond what would be expected from his base. We'll call this Charlie's "performance." Charlie's base is defined as registered Democrats and declined-to-states who are expected to vote Democratic.
We can see that Charlie achieved his goal in each county, but to disparate degrees. So, in Nevada County, Charlie did an excellent job of pulling in conservative voters, while in Modoc County he did not pull in as many. The raw numbers are below.
The biggest surprise is how well Charlie did in Placer County. Only Nevada County outperformed Placer (which was expected). In the deepest of red counties, he did a better job of pulling in conservatives than in El Dorado, Plumas or Sierra Counties.
Placer County - Vote
| Charlie | 48.95% |
| McClintock | 51.05% |
Charlie's Performance - 14.14%
Nevada County - Vote
| Charlie | 57.68% |
| McClintock | 42.32% |
Charlie's Performance - 17.51%
El Dorado County - Vote
| Charlie | 49.31% |
| McClintock | 50.69% |
Charlie's Performance - 12.60%
Sacramento County - Vote
| Charlie | 46.83% |
| McClintock | 53.17% |
Charlie's Performance - 10.45%
Butte County - Vote
| Charlie | 47.46% |
| McClintock | 52.54% |
Charlie's Performance - 6.43%
Sierra County - Vote
| Charlie | 50.23% |
| McClintock | 49.77% |
Charlie's Performance - 13.09%
Plumas County - Vote
| Charlie | 52.13% |
| McClintock | 47.87% |
Charlie's Performance - 12.39%
Lassen County - Vote
| Charlie | 36.70% |
| McClintock | 63.30% |
Charlie's Performance - 2.46%
Modoc County - Vote
| Charlie | 37.26% |
| McClintock | 62.74% |
Charlie's Performance - 3.32%
District Total - Vote
| Charlie | 49.76% |
| McClintock | 50.24% |
Charlie's Performance - 13.20%
(It's worth pointing out that Democrats in other red districts in California weren't able to pull this stunt. Across California, Democrats actually lost their own base to their Republican opponents.)
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