Thursday, November 13, 2008

Final results are in

WARNING -- election geek stuff ahead!

We've just heard the final results for the Presidential vote in Johnson County, Iowa, where both Iowa City and Coralville are.  Before the election we heard that our precinct, Coralville 6 (CV06) had never gone Democratic, and the first returns showed that the precinct had gone Republican again this year.  But for the first time, absentee and early ballots were counted in their precinct this year instead of simply being counted generally, and it made a difference -- CV06 went Democratic.  It probably had done so before, but we did have the lowest precinct percentage for Obama in either Iowa City or Coralville, with only 60% for Obama.  (A few rural or small-town precincts were lower, and two, with a total of 809 votes, actually went for McCain.)  So I'm feeling better about where we live now...

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