Bush did 1% better than last time in West Bloomfield, although 4% better than Posthumus.
Bush won Macomb this time, unlike last time and improved himself a little in Warren, as well as the Northern Townships.
Dearborn was a butt kicking - especially since Bush won it last time. How much of that was white union members or Arab's I don't know.
Bush/Cheney 16,686 Kerry/Edwards 24,456
"Bush did 1% better than last time in West Bloomfield, although 4% better than Posthumus."
You're right, I just looked it up and in 2000 Gore carried West Bloomfield 56%-42%; I thought it had been 57%-39% or so with a higher Nader vote. But because of the township's changing demographics, doing the same in West Bloomfield in 2004 as in 2000 would have been a victory for Bush, and doing 1% better is an excellent showing.
"Dearborn was a butt kicking - especially since Bush won it last time. How much of that was white union members or Arab's I don't know.
Bush/Cheney 16,686 Kerry/Edwards 24,456"
Bush got 415 fewer votes in Dearborn than he did in 2000, and Kerry outpolled Gore by a whopping 4,356 votes (Kerry beat "Gore + Nader" by 2,669). I have to assume that the big difference was the Arab vote, but whether it was just the Muslims (many of whom had voted for Bush in 2000 because Gore had the audacity to select a Jewish runningmate) or Christian Arabs as well is a very good question. Turnout in Dearborn was quite a bit higher than in 2000, so perhaps the Imams ordered the Muslims to go out and vote.