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To: jwalsh07

Obama by 19,000 in 2008, with Barr picking up 9,000, not too bad for a big city.


6 posted on 11/03/2012 1:07:31 AM PDT by ansel12 (Vote, but don't pretend.)
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".......But Gallup uncovered one very significant shift in this year’s voting electorate. There has been a remarkable movement toward the Republican party. As Gallup reports:

The largest changes in the composition of the electorate compared with the last presidential election concern the partisan affiliation of voters. Currently, 46% of likely voters identify as Democrats or lean Democratic, compared with 54% in 2008. But in 2008, Democrats enjoyed a wide 12-point advantage in party affiliation among national adults, the largest Gallup had seen in at least two decades. More recently, Americans have been about as likely to identify as or lean Republican as to identify as or lean Democratic. Consequently, the electorate has also become less Democratic and more Republican in its political orientation than in 2008. In fact, the party composition of the electorate this year looks more similar to the electorate in 2004 than 2008....." Source

8 posted on 11/03/2012 1:12:12 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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