(Times)But the Facebook data wasn’t limited to the most popular team in each place. Anyway, we took that Facebook data and did politics to it. Here was our thinking: What if we took the county-level baseball fan data and compared that to county-level 2016 election results? If we look at percentage of support, the team with the highest density of Trump fans is the Cincinnati Reds. Our methodology has about 6 in 10 Reds fans as Trump voters — since the Reds fan base is centered in southwestern Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana.
Source: Washington Post March 29, 2018 21:30 UTC