Obama edges out Clinton in Butte County, CA in primary election-more dems voted in Red county!

[fed-up]

in what is normally a very red county, Dem votes outnumbered rep votes!!! that should have been the headline!!!

http://clerk-recorder.buttecounty.net/elections/archives/eln16/16_eln_main.html
total dem 30,705
total rep 29,809

http://www.chicoer.com/news/ci_8470000

Obama edges out Clinton in Butte County in primary election
By ROGER H. AYLWORTH - Staff Writer
Article Launched: 03/06/2008 12:00:00 AM PST

Nearly a month after the February primary, the final official Butte County vote tally has come up with a local reversal.
On Feb. 5, the preliminary election-night total put Hillary Clinton ahead of Barack Obama in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination.

With 11,550 votes, Clinton led with 44.45 percent of the counted total, to Obama's 11,324 votes and 43.58 percent of the total.

However, when the election night vote count stopped at about 12:30 a.m. Wednesday, Feb. 6, there were roughly 11,480 late mail-in and provisional ballots remaining to be counted.

Final- Obama 13,906 votes or 45.29%
Clinton's 13,397 votes and 43.63% of Butte County total.
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McCain 11,089 votes and 37.2%
Romney's 10,607 votes and 35.58 percent.

..snip

When the final ballots were counted, a total of 68,010 people had voted for a total turnout of 57.09 percent.

[caledesi]

1. Fired up! Ready to go! nt

[Dogmudgeon]

2. I used to live there. I do not doubt it.

The place has Chico State, the biggest Cal State campus, as well as Paradise, which IIRC is an "artists' colony". There are few Blacks, but plenty of progressives. The townies tend to be extremely conservative, but their kids are not.

Still, the Obama-Clinton contest is the secondary story -- the bluing of Butte is the best news for the Democrats in California in a long time. It also means that lunatic wingnut representative Wally Herger may have to find a real job soon.

--p!

[fed-up]

3. Paradise is red, red, red-townies=college students=Supe Jane Dolan's dist-blue

Or course the right wing rag, the ER would never print the real story and the results came too late to make the News & Review (but they have been leaning right after they were bought out a few years ago)

didn't know Chico State was largest campus-son will start there next semester (assuming he is accepted)

[Dogmudgeon]

4. CN&R went rightward? Arrgh!

I used to work there.

I am verklempt.

The Enterprise-Record has ALWAYS been reactionary. It's even more reactionary than most of the older townies.

Paradise used to be politically kinda mixed, back in the 80s, but the town seemed to cater to artists. How it's changed, I do not know, but Wally Herger is still there. Another irony was that most of the police in the area were liberal, though they were still obliged to break up every non-Greek party they could find.

CSUC is a good school. It has an unfairly wild and lowbrow reputation. Between Chico and Humboldt, a kid from Northern CA can't go very wrong. Good luck to your son!

--p!