A patch of blue
If you keep a window open for the State Election Board’s Web site as the votes are counted, the number that’s drilled into your head is 2,231: the number of individual precincts in the state. Much has been made of the fact that the McCain/Palin ticket carried every single county in Oklahoma; the Oklahoman has now looked into the individual precinct numbers, and has found 198 where Obama/Biden drew the majority of the votes.
The explanation, says OU political-science professor Keith Gaddie, is in line with conventional wisdom:
If you look at the urban areas, these are classic urban voting patterns. The Democratic concentrations were in minority precincts and in both older working class suburbs and older affluent suburbs.
Newer ‘burbs and rural areas, by contrast, went staunchly Republican.
My own precinct (Oklahoma County 453) was, I suspected, about evenly divided. It turned out to have a bit of a McCain tilt: 52.4 percent to 47.6 for Obama.
MikeSwi... »
23 November 2008 · 8:53 pm
Where did you find the numbers for your precinct? I can only find maps and nothing that lists the results precinct-by-precinct.
Brett »
23 November 2008 · 9:48 pm
Great — now Robin Meyers will have something else to get pissed off about…
CGHill »
24 November 2008 · 7:13 am
If you go to this page, there’s a More Info box with a link to the precinct list.