Umm, that’s a very misleading statistic—King County, WA has a very uneven distribution of contribution to GDP, as it includes a number of international powerhouses that local politics don’t affect very much (nonzero, but nowhere near the few percent you’re estimating). per-capita averages are just about useless for any planning or valuation of action.
I agree! (Well, actually more like $1-200k/capita, because there are more people than voters, but still.) Sources: population, GDP, turnout.
Umm, that’s a very misleading statistic—King County, WA has a very uneven distribution of contribution to GDP, as it includes a number of international powerhouses that local politics don’t affect very much (nonzero, but nowhere near the few percent you’re estimating). per-capita averages are just about useless for any planning or valuation of action.
Yeah, a fair point!