Bergen County, NJ Results

[Verily]

Nothing too, too interesting here, although I will gloat that I was pretty much right on the money in predicting my area. The swing was pretty uniform, and my hometown Englewood, heavily minority, returned one of the highest turnouts county-wide at 82.7% of registered voters. Heavily minority Hackensack, the county seat, was just behind Englewood in turnout at 82.6%. A few of the Italian towns in the southwest of the county recorded marginally higher turnouts; the highest appears to have been 84.1% in Wood-Ridge, which voted marginally for McCain (52-47).

The strongest municipality for Obama was Englewood, at 77.7%. The strongest municipality for McCain was Saddle River (also one of the wealthiest municipalities nationwide) at 67.1%. The local election results were varied, although the Democrats did retain complete control of the Freeholder Board. (I voted for the Green Party candidates as a protest.) The Republicans retained their sole county-wide elected office: County Clerk. (I voted for the GOP incumbent.)

Neat map for results from Bergen and Passaic Counties plus a bit of Morris and Hudson Counties here: http://dng.northjersey.com/media_server/tr/smaps/2008/electionresults2008/map/index.php

On an aside, DWTL's town, Rutherford, provides an amusing look at tribal politics. Basically, in the elections to the Freeholder Board and to the Borough Council, the Republicans ran one candidate with an Italian last name and another candidate with an English last name (Calabrese and Heller; de Salvo and Wilson). Predictably, the Italian candidate got on average 500 more votes than the non-Italian candidate. Also, the Republican sacrificial lamb against Rothman ran marginally better than both McCain and Zimmer in Rutherford despite getting destroyed district-wide (and vastly underperfoming both). His last name? Micco.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

So did your precinct beat mine?

[Verily]

No precinct results out yet that I can find. We'll see. After the primary it took our county clerk almost a month to get the data online. What was your result?

[Brittain33]

Heller is a Jewish last name, FWIW, but it doesn't change your point.

[elcorazon]

So did your precinct beat mine?

why is South Dakota a bad state and North Dakota mixed?

And why is Louisiana mixed?
and why is Iowa good, as opposed to say, New York?  or Wisconsin?

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

No precinct results out yet that I can find. We'll see. After the primary it took our county clerk almost a month to get the data online. What was your result?

Obama 89.03%
McCain 8.74%

So did your precinct beat mine?

why is South Dakota a bad state and North Dakota mixed?

And why is Louisiana mixed?
and why is Iowa good, as opposed to say, New York?  or Wisconsin?

Outside of the green states, there is a method to the map. Check out Dave's results here, and you'll figure it out.

[elcorazon]

I still don't get it.

[Small Business Owner of Any Repute]

The Republicans retained their sole county-wide elected office: County Clerk. (I voted for the GOP incumbent.)

Just barely.  Must be awful constantly having a bullseye on your back like that.

[Verily]

The Republicans retained their sole county-wide elected office: County Clerk. (I voted for the GOP incumbent.)

Just barely.  Must be awful constantly having a bullseye on your back like that.

I was actually surprised it was so close. I think Shulman turned out some Democrats in northern Bergen who don't normally bother to vote. Plus, Testa had the Italian name thing going for her.

Also, my fault on Heller being a Jewish name, but either way it's not Italian.

[RI]

I still don't get it.

The red states are ones that Obama won in both the primary and the general. Blue states were won by Clinton in the primary and McCain in the general. Grey either went for Obama in the primary and McCain in the general, or Clinton in the primary and Obama in the general.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

I still don't get it.

The red states are ones that Obama won in both the primary and the general. Blue states were won by Clinton in the primary and McCain in the general. Grey either went for Obama in the primary and McCain in the general, or Clinton in the primary and Obama in the general.

I'm amazed so many long-time posters failed to get it but someone with 12 posts can.

[Verily]

If anyone wants NJ results by town, here's a neat map from the Star-Ledger:

http://blog.nj.com/ledgerupdates_impact/2008/11/NJTOWN07.pdf

Once again demonstrating that all of the Democrats in New Jersey live within 25 miles of the NJ Turnpike.

[minionofmidas]

Also, my fault on Heller being a Jewish name, but either way it's not Italian.

It's a German name that can also be a Jewish name. It is certainly not English, though.