re: Half of the U.S. Population lives in these counties.

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Lotta people in Beaver County, Oklahoma getting subscriptions to WaPo and NYT, are they?

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It's very telling that you think liberalism only exists in the news.

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There's some thick assed walls on those bubbles.

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New people from all over the country and world arrive in New York City every day, including people from rural areas.

In many rural areas, you are born there and you die there.

On average, rural is more bubbleish. It's not close.

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Dude. King County? Really?

You're going to rope in all the folks living in the sticks as potential bubble breakers? C'mon.

Look, it's not like they don't even tell us how much of a bubble they're in.

I mean, when they say they "don't know ANYONE who is conservative" or they "don't know ANYONE who voted for Trump(and before that, Bush)"........they're telling the truth.

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That's my bad. I forgot that Seattle made up less than a third of the county population. Whereas most of those counties I listed, the principal city made up a larger percentage, and in some cases, they were city-county designations.

Anyways, I went back to the Seattle precinct data, and in 2012, it looks like Romney about about 49,000 of the 344,000 votes in Seattle (14%).

And my theory is that when a person lives in a highly partisan state, and a highly partisan district and municipality, there is less incentive to vote, ESPECIALLY if one's views are counter to the partisanship since a worthless losing vote would an especially strong disincentive.

So I bet that 14% is a lower bound. Regardless, Seattle is one of the most partisan places in the country, and there is still probably upwards of 100,000 right leaning people in the city.