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Title: Tidbit from Arizona Post by: CARLHAYDEN on November 19, 2008, 04:58:49 PM From today's Arizona Republic, news about a suprising as being told water is wet, or fire is hot:
McCain defeated in home precinct by Mary Jo Pitzl and Scott Wong - Nov. 16, 2008 12:00 AM The Arizona Republic John McCain may have won Arizona by nine points over Barack Obama, but he lost his home precinct. Election data from Maricopa County shows that the state's very own presidential nominee lost to Obama by 13 points in McCain's Colonnade precinct: 42 percent for McCain, 55 percent for Obama. Title: Re: Tidbit from Arizona Post by: Keystone Phil on November 19, 2008, 05:00:15 PM Didn't Bush lose his precinct in 2004, too?
Title: Re: Tidbit from Arizona Post by: ○∙◄☻¥tπ[╪AV┼cVê└ on November 19, 2008, 07:31:27 PM It's always interesting to see how those who see the candidates the most vote. DC naturally is landslide Democratic.
Title: Re: Tidbit from Arizona Post by: Filuwaúrdjan on November 19, 2008, 07:39:01 PM Colonnade voted for Kerry; 53-46.
Title: Re: Tidbit from Arizona Post by: bullmoose88 on November 19, 2008, 07:39:01 PM It's always interesting to see how those who see the candidates the most vote. DC naturally is landslide Democratic. Because DC wouldn't vote nearly as hardcore democratic if the Capitol wasn't there. Title: Re: Tidbit from Arizona Post by: minionofmidas on November 21, 2008, 05:47:44 PM Didn't Bush lose his precinct in 2004, too? Title: Re: Tidbit from Arizona Post by: Bacon King on November 21, 2008, 05:56:03 PM he's in the only delayomander-targetted seat that Republicans couldn't steal. Don't forget Doggett! Title: Re: Tidbit from Arizona Post by: Nixon in '80 on November 21, 2008, 07:48:37 PM It's always interesting to see how those who see the candidates the most vote. DC naturally is landslide Democratic. Because DC wouldn't vote nearly as hardcore democratic if the Capitol wasn't there. Title: Re: Tidbit from Arizona Post by: 2952-0-0 on November 21, 2008, 07:54:53 PM Did any precinct vote *unanimously* for one candidate, or at least having the other main candidate get zero votes?
Title: Re: Tidbit from Arizona Post by: Filuwaúrdjan on November 21, 2008, 07:57:55 PM Did any precinct vote *unanimously* for one candidate, or at least having the other main candidate get zero votes? Check the ghettoes, maybe. Title: Re: Tidbit from Arizona Post by: Daniel Adams on November 21, 2008, 09:18:50 PM Did any precinct vote *unanimously* for one candidate, or at least having the other main candidate get zero votes? Title: Re: Tidbit from Arizona Post by: Meeker on November 21, 2008, 09:24:05 PM There were several Chicago precincts that went 100% for Obama. And not even small ones - these had several hundred voters in them.
Title: Re: Tidbit from Arizona Post by: Frozen Sky Ever Why on November 21, 2008, 09:35:20 PM Is being from the precinct really supposed to bend the area towards one candidate?
Title: Re: Tidbit from Arizona Post by: paul718 on November 21, 2008, 10:49:24 PM The five voters in Pinkham's Grant, NH, voted unanimously for Obama. Also, the lone voter in Green's Grant voted for Obama, so he got 100% there too. Does every city in NH adhere to this possessor-noun nomenclature? I certainly hope so. Title: Re: Tidbit from Arizona Post by: Bleeding heart conservative, HTMLdon on November 21, 2008, 10:57:30 PM There was at least one precinct in Memphis with no McCain votes. On average, McCain got around 1% of the vote in precincts with 70%+ black registration.
Title: Re: Tidbit from Arizona Post by: minionofmidas on November 22, 2008, 04:33:59 AM Ignoring tiny precincts (say below 100 votes), I know there were some in Chi but none in DC. And none in Hawai'i either. I've seen smalltown Louisiana precincts with McCain below 1% (guess which side of the railroad tracks... actually, as I've never seen Louisiana precinct maps, I'm just guessing as well ;D ), but none with no votes for him at all.
Title: Re: Tidbit from Arizona Post by: I spent the winter writing songs about getting better on December 31, 2008, 03:09:41 AM While this is a purely trivia and useless piece of info, it did get me thinking: Who previously was the last major party candidate to lose their home precinct? Even McGovern most likely did, he did win his home county. Stevenson maybe?
Amusingly FDR might've all four times. He never won his home county either. |