DeKalb Sends Most GA Voters to the Polls
Decatur Metro | February 6, 2008I found this interesting…
Even though Fulton County (pop. 960,009) is home to 200,000 more people than DeKalb (723,602) over 11,000 more citizens voted in DeKalb County (148,887) than Fulton (137,728). That translates into 21% of the population voting in DeKalb, compared to only 14% turnout in Fulton.
The margins are even larger when compared to Gwinnett and Cobb County.
Is this just another indication of Obama’s ability to get out the African-American vote in key southern states and counties? Well if I had demographic data for the county I could tell you. But I don’t.
But looking at the entire state of GA, even Karl Rove is inclined to point out that its bigger than that. (Skip to 3:10 in the clip if you can’t stomach 3 extra minutes of Rove and Chris Wallace to hear his thoughts about “White Democrats in GA” voting for Obama)
h/t: The Daily Dish
Actually the breakdown here shows that its specially White Democrats between the ages of 18-29 that break for Obama in Georgia (by 20 points).
Should he win the nomination, it will be very interesting to see how Georgia votes come November.
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It is interesting to see the difference in Dekalb and Fulton County voter turnouts, but I’m not surprised that more Dekalb County residents were more active at the polls. My polling place, located in Midtown Atlanta, was very quiet when I voted after work yesterday. I expected a long line, but to my surprise there were very few people around. When I arrived at work today, I spoke with several Decaturites who said that their polling locations had long waits. I wish that Fulton County residents were as motivated to vote as people who live in Dekalb County.
I heard of many long lines in Decatur, but personally my precinct was pretty quiet when I voted at 8:30am on Tuesday morning…so don’t be too hard on your fellow “Midtowners”.