Bump and Elect Diana Irey --- Donate Today!
Posted on 08/17/2006 3:04:02 PM PDT by Dane
The irony is delicious. :-D
Still no answers eh? Your arrogance is stunning.
Biwyuns and biwyuns of dead brain cells, eh?
Y'all calm down now.
I got to looking at precinct level votes from the 2004 US Senate race. The upper Mon Valley (Irey's home base) was heavily for Hoeffel. I don't know how Irey has done there in her runs for County Commissioner, but I wouldn't be surprised if she got her support elsewhere in Washington county...such the part that's in the 18th, for instance.
Otherwise, South Johnstown and Johnstown's southern suburbs jumped out at me as heavily for Specter. My guess is that this area voted for Murtha (he got 74% in 2002 and was unopposed in 2004) but could be convinced to support Irey.
There were some isolated pockets of heavy Specter support elsewhere in the district but this was one area of several contiguous precincts.
Any recent polls on the Murtha / Irey race? I haven't been able to find any, and wonder whether this popularity includes his constituents?
Huh? What do you mean by that?
Uhh, on second thought, forget I asked.
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I got to looking at the Bush-Kerry numbers (I didn't have Armstrong County but otherwise it was similar to Specter-Hoeffel, with Specter running slightly ahead of Bush)...
South Johnstown and environs had about 16-20 precincts with strong Bush/Specter support, followed by an area around Kittaning-Ford City with about 12 nearly contiguous precincts having strong Specter support, and then 7 or 8 contiguous precincts around Scottdale-Upper Tyrone having strong support for Bush and Specter.
My metric was vote differential per unit area -- not vote percentage.
I love the new video gallery...particularly the Hairball screen capture. LOL!
My numbers don't quite match yours but it's more detailed data. Votes in each county are followed by (US Congressional District) and a summary total at the end of the line. I'm sorry for the poor formatting....
Bush/Allegheny: 85359 (4) 978 (12) 87900 (14) 96647 (18) 270884
Kerry/Allegheny: 67116 (4) 1359 (12) 205164 (14) 94158 (18) 367797
Bush/Cambria: 4316 (9) 29732 (12) 34048
Kerry/Cambria: 4270 (9) 28322 (12) 32592
Bush/Fayette: 6737 (9) 18047 (12) 24784
Kerry/Fayette: 5542 (9) 23365 (12) 28907
Bush/Greene: 7786 (12)
Kerry/Greene: 7674 (12)
Bush/Indiana: 15900 (9) 4330 (12) 20230
Kerry/Indiana: 12052 (9) 4068 (12) 16120
Bush/Somerset: 14903 (9) 8899 (12) 23802
Kerry/Somerset: 6707 (9) 6135 (12) 12842
Bush/Washington: 18681 (12) 28110 (18) 46791
Kerry/Washington: 25594 (12) 21665 (18) 47259
Bush/Westmoreland: 8728 (4) 48 (9) 34355 (12) 56658 (18) 99789
Kerry/Westmoreland: 4669 (4) 42 (9) 36192 (12) 36651 (18) 77554
I don't have Armstrong data; it is split between the 12th district and the 3rd district.
However, I do have:
Specter/Armstrong: 8328 (3) 9176 (12) 17504
Hoeffel/Armstrong: 3955 (3) 5876 (12) 9831
Personal attacks between people who actually have a lot in common does no one any good. Let us hope Irey wins.
I certainly hope she wins also. I even sent her campaign a $100 donation after her appearance on FR. Hope she returns.
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