Interesting Election Tidbits

Obama won Manhattan 85% to 14%, he got 490,000 votes.
He won D.C. 93 to 7, getting 210,000 votes.
And he got 243,000 in LA county but only won 60 to 38. I wonder how many of those were Hollywood actors and actreesses. I saw where Kim Kardashian voted.

New England is very blue. Barack Obama won every single county in Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusets, Rhode Island and Connecticut.

Never have Alaska and Hawaii been so important to a presidential election. A Vice Presidential candidate from Alaska (McCain won 62 to 36) and the new President raised in Hawaii (he won 72-27).

Voters 18 to 29 went for Obama more than 2 to 1.
95% of African-Americans voted for Barack Obama. They also made up 13% of those who voted, roughly their percentage in the population at large.

People who earn $200,000 or more made up 6% of the voters, even though Obama says they make up 2% of the total population. They went for Obama 52 to 46, meaning they don't seem to care if he raises their taxes.

Democrats made up 39% of the voters, compared to 32% who were Republicans, meaning a surprisingly high number (at least to me), 29%, were registered independents.

Nearly 80% of Jews went for Barack Obama, even better than John Kerry's number. And proof those e-mail campaign scare tactics did not work.

Gay marriage lost in Alabama, Florida and California. And gay couples were barred from adopting in Arkansas. The fact is gay marriage never wins when it's put to a vote of the people. Now I don't believe gay marriage should be illegal, but nor do I want to live in a country where activist judges can push an agenda and go against the will of the people. If it happens with gay marriage it will happen with something else. The will of the people should rule, for better or worse.

Michigan approved medical marijuana, and Washington voted in favor of doctor assisted suicide.

In San Francisco, they voted down a measure to rename the Oceanside Water Pollution Control Plant to the George W. Bush Sewage Plant. San Franciscans also voted down a measure to decriminalize prostitution. Those idiots.