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« on: December 11, 2014, 09:05:27 PM » |
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« edited: December 11, 2014, 09:17:08 PM by New Canadaland »
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Obama 2012 vs Cochran 2014 in MS:
562949 Obama
378481 Cochran
In fact Obama "defeats" Cochran by 20 points looking at the raw vote numbers.
Looks like Childers, who lost by 22, did poorly in the black belt. It's almost entirely due to turnout - in Washington county where Obama got >70% of the vote, Childers got less votes than Romney while still winning the county. The reduced margin among whites did almost nothing. Asking for presidential level black turnout in off years might be too much but if it happened...
Edit:
Even more astounding!!!
Obama 795696
Sessions 795606
Obama defeats Sessions by a hair! Even while running uncontested in the south Obama still gets more votes than you! Although to be fair, many democrats didn't vote in that contest. Bentley got 750231 votes so he also keeps it close to Obama in raw votes despite having 64 vs 97% of the vote.
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