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Ready to read something really shocking?
Updated vote tallies show that President-elect Barack Obama beat Republican John McCain in Salt Lake County by 296 votes, less than one-tenth of a percent.
Final tally: Obama wins Salt Lake County
November 19th, 2008 @ 8:50am
By Andrew Adams
Updated vote tallies show that President-elect Barack Obama beat Republican John McCain in Salt Lake County by 296 votes, less than one-tenth of a percent.
The result came Tuesday after more than 29,000 provisional and late-arriving absentee ballots were counted as part of the county's official election canvass.
Obama had trailed McCain by about 1,900 votes before the provisional and absentee ballots were counted.
Democrats are hailing it as a big win in this red state. It had been decades since a Democrat claimed Salt Lake County in a presidential election. President Bush won the county by more than 20 percentage points in the last two elections.
University of Utah political science professor Tim Chambless explained, "What we are seeing is the rise in the Democratic Party, therefore the return of Utah to be a two-party state and therefore more political competition."
He says Utah followed the trend seen in neighboring swing states of Nevada, New Mexico and Colorado this year.
In Utah, Obama also won Summit County, home to Park City, and Grand County, home to Moab. But McCain easily won the state's five electoral votes.
The Salt Lake County Republican Party chair is responding basically by saying Republicans faced "considerable headwinds" this election year, and they'll be back.
Can't start another thread today or I would have done so.
ACK!
Don't try to confuse the issue with half-truths and gorilla dust!
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Originally posted by Boris Godunov
@ Lizard People
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That is pretty ****ing retarded. But whatever. Those ballots will be properly assigned by any reasonable review board.12-17-10 Mohamed Bouazizi NEVER FORGET
Stadtluft Macht Frei
Killing it is the new killing it
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Christ on a crutch, it would be ****ing hilarious if Al mother-****ing Franken got elected to the US Senate.
Please, God, you know I don't believe in you, but make this happen and I'll reconsider."My nation is the world, and my religion is to do good." --Thomas Paine
"The subject of onanism is inexhaustable." --Sigmund Freud
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