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To: Alex MG who wrote (318266)	11/15/2016 1:13:24 PM
From: Alex MG	Respond to of 542557

Well, I know who not to blame. We folks down here in NOLA :^) “A little blue dot in a big red state.” That’s a description often applied to Austin, Texas by national politicos, but it’s just as applicable to New Orleans. The results of the presidential and senatorial elections last week confirmed that. Travis County, Texas (home of Austin) voted for Hillary Clinton over Donald Trump, 66 percent to 27 percent. Support for Clinton over Trump in Orleans Parish (81-15 percent) left Austin in the dust. Last night's vote for Clinton in New Orleans was one point larger than the city’s vote to reelect President Barack Obama in 2012. The local percentage for Clinton was substantially larger than Austin’s, Seattle’s and Portland’s. In fact. metro-wide, Clinton and Trump literally split the vote right down the middle, getting 48 percent each in greater New Orleans, according to University of New Orleans political science professor Ed Chervenak. Simply put, New Orleans is blue, and getting bluer. After the election, many New Orleanians were feeling mighty blue, indeed. bestofneworleans.com