That’s not what this article said:
Special Election: Burns, Critz work to gain an Edge
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2509896/posts
It said, and I quote: “...the 2008 presidential vote was far from overwhelming on the Republican’s behalf: The final tally was 35,355 for McCain and 32,203 for Obama.”
That’s a total of 67,558 cast by Pubbies and Dems combined. I can’t believe that low of a vote count for a Presidential Election in a Congressional District. Must be a small District.
I see what you mean now.
At least 268,000 total votes were cast.
The link below will give you the totals for the 12th District Congressional Election.
http://edition.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/results/state/#PA
Now that you’ve pointed it out to me again, I know what happened. 35,355 should be 135,355 and 32,203 should be 132,203. The article left out the 1’s !!!
It really fooled me, I’m glad you mentioned it again. I would have gone through the rest of my life thinking half the Republicans who voted in my district in 2008 voted for Obama, What a bummer.