Only one county has voted for the winner of every presidential election since 1980
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🗓️ 9 October 2024
⏱️ 4 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | As Donald Trump and Kamala Harris make their case to voters, they're spending most of their time in a handful of battleground states. |
| 0:07.5 | But hundreds of miles from any swing state campaign stop, the Pacific Northwest is where you'll find the only truly |
| 0:14.8 | swing county left in the US. |
| 0:17.6 | Videographer Taylor Moss, and radio reporter Lauren Gallup from Northwest Public Broadcasting have more. |
| 0:25.0 | I'm going to do a little yelling. |
| 0:29.0 | Up, up, up. |
| 0:31.0 | Come on sheep. |
| 0:32.0 | In a far northwestern corner of Washington State, Billy Fortini is taking his flock of sheep out to pasture. |
| 0:39.0 | Delphine is the first to get moving. |
| 0:42.0 | One of them will act like the bellwether |
| 0:45.0 | and be the leader, and the rest will kind of follow along. |
| 0:49.0 | In sheep herding, a bellwether is the lead sheep. |
| 0:52.0 | Shepherds put a bell around its neck to keep track of the flock. |
| 0:55.8 | But in politics, it's a place to watch that usually reflects a bigger trend. |
| 1:00.9 | And in presidential politics, bellwethers are nearly extinct. |
| 1:05.0 | Of the more than 3,000 counties across the country, only one, Clowham County, Washington |
| 1:10.6 | has a 40-year year long perfect record. |
| 1:13.0 | The residents have voted for the national winner in every presidential election since 1980. |
| 1:18.0 | In the city of Port Angeles, people say there's a reason this county of 77,000 has bucked the national trend toward political polarization. |
| 1:27.0 | People out here are really independent. I describe Port Angeles as the end of the road. |
| 1:33.0 | I think there's a certain friendliness here as well. |
| 1:35.5 | My neighbor is a person, not an opposite, |
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