Wyoming has half the population that just Portland, OR does, and that's at best a mid-size city. You're having an issue visualizing scale. Also, people vote blue in red states, but do so in small enough numbers that they tend to be quiet about it.
And all of this back and forth about voting as representation of what "the country" actually thinks completely ignores the fact that about a third of eligible voters don't, and the margins are always much closer than 30%.
Wyoming has half the population that just Portland, OR does, and that's at best a mid-size city. You're having an issue visualizing scale. Also, people vote blue in red states, but do so in small enough numbers that they tend to be quiet about it.
And all of this back and forth about voting as representation of what "the country" actually thinks completely ignores the fact that about a third of eligible voters don't, and the margins are always much closer than 30%.