Even worse than Maryland, D.C. has less relevance to the Republicans than American Samoa and should get about as many delegates.
Trivia question: Barry Goldwater actually managed to get 14.5% of the DC vote in 1964. Who was the last Republican presidential candidate to exceed this total? Who was the last to crack 10%?
Even more appalling when you consider McCain got all of 17,367 votes out of 600,000 residents. In Tennessee in the relatively rural county of Cumberland (which would’ve had about 55,000 people in 2008, 1/11th the population of DC), it cast 17,436 votes for McCain (and even at that, this was just 68% of the vote... Zero still got above 30% in this overwhelmingly White county). I could be wrong, but I don’t think there is ANY county in the United States that voted conversely to DC with just 6.5% of the vote for Zero.
I just checked, I did manage to find one county in the entire country that gave McCain a higher % of the vote than DC did in 2008... the ultra-rural King County in Texas gave Zero 4.9% of the vote (which in actual votes was all of 8 !). At least 3 others in TX gave Zero between 7-9% (all very rural: Glasscock, Ochiltree & Roberts).