The Republican stronghold [there are actually a few big-city Republican strongholds scattered across the country - Michigan is unusual in having TWO of them] of Kent County [Pete Meijer/Justin Amash] flipped to Biden in 2020, with a big "turnout" for Joe and The Ho.
The neighboring conservative county of Ottawa also "turned out" big for Biden, and a conservative county just south of these two counties showed a big Biden "turnout".
Here's the interesting part:
There's a Democrat stronghold next to these counties - Muskegon city and Muskegon County. Historically, this was a big area for blacks from Chicago to have summer homes a short drive away, and a place to get away from bigotry found in other places [in the old days].
Turned out BIG for Obama in 2008.
Biden 2020? Not so much.
Trump almost won the county. I believe that the difference was that Muskegon wasn't on the rounds of the ballot mules [outside the one-hour driving radius of the central command-and-control county Kent] - and the Michigan Democrats and their Assistant Democrat pals the Republicans had the Trump problem covered elsewhere.
P Obama Biden
O minus div
2008 Obama McCain 2008 total 2020 Biden Trump 2020 total P Biden Obama
Kent 49% 149,909 49% 148,336 303,235 Kent 52% 187,915 46% 165,741 362,031 4 -38,006 125%
Ottawa 37% 50,828 61% 83,330 136,268 Ottawa 38% 64,705 60% 100,913 168,713 7 -13,877 127%
Allegan 44% 24,165 54% 30,061 55,279 Allegan 36% 24,449 62% 41,392 67,195 18 -284 101%
Muskegon 64% 53,821 35% 29,145 84,271 Muskegon 49% 45,643 49% 45,133 92,444 12 8,178 85% You'll notice that Muskegon violates the "population" rule - pump up the vote in the more populated counties.They were working on Kent, and had to choose between Ottawa and Muskegon counties.
Ottawa is more populous by far, and I think they might have scooped up Allegan on the way back. Allegan was probably good for 2,000-2,500 "votes"