NBC Today Show producer studies political party splits in Blaine County

Samantha Wender, a Producer with NBC News, spent part of last week in Blaine County “listening to folks, doing some filming and research.” Wender’s interest in Blaine County has to do with a story she plans about “how folks can coexist when their political views are so evenly split.” If and when a show is completed, it would be shown on NBC’s TODAY show.

Blaine County is one of only a few counties that met Wender’s criteria for a visit—“where the vote for President in 2016 was divided between the two candidates by only 50-100 votes.” There was another county, with similar voting results in Col...