Decatur Still Solidly Democratic
November 12, 2008 | 10:57 amAs promised, DecaturGuy has crunched the numbers from last Tuesday’s election for 30030 and reports back that our political makeup is no different than four years ago.
Of those that voted on Election Day, 75% of Decatur residents voted for Obama…though this number excludes early voters.
To see the full analysis, including which Decatur precincts cast the most Democratic and Republican votes click HERE.
h/t: InDecatur
“dog bites man”.
Where?! Do you have a location?!
“Jim! Send up the the chopper! We need aerial footage of this for 6 o’clock!”
Any way to get the data with early voting included? So many people voted early!
Not to my knowledge, altmod. Apparently, Gwinnett County has broken down early voting by precinct, but not Dekalb and if you look on the SOS website, they never did it for the nearly 20% who voted early in the 2004 election either.
If I had to guess, Decatur probably had a pretty high % of voters who voted early and probably a higher % of early voters voted Democratic than those who voted on election day, if the same patterns for Dekalb County are true in Decatur, so I think you could conservatively (no pun intended) say that Obama’s Decatur numbers were probably closer to 80% if you included all votes.
dog bites many again….