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{ 2009 03 07 }

Obama’s Top 10 Margins

This is a bit less interesting. Since Democrats tend to do very well in the biggest cities, large Democratic margins tend to correlate directly with large populations. New York City suffers here as it is split up into five counties. The top Obama margins are: Los Angeles, Cook (Chicago + suburbs), Philadelphia, Wayne (Detroit), New York (Manhattan), Kings (Brooklyn), Alameda County (Oakland, CA + suburbs), King (Seattle), Queens NY, and Prince George’s, MD (Heavily African-American DC suburbs).

Posted by harveyj on Saturday, March 7, 2009, at 11:10 pm. Filed under Politics. Follow any responses to this post with its comments RSS feed. You can post a comment or trackback from your blog.
  1. Jon P | March 8, 2009 at 12:06 pm | Permalink

    Here are the top 3 counties by percent margin for each of them:
    King County, TX: McCain wins 151-8-4 (87.73%), (the second smallest number of total votes for any county in the US).
    Roberts County, TX: McCain wins 477-41 (84.16%).
    Ochiltree County, TX: McCain wins 2851-243-15 (83.88%)

    Washington, DC: Obama wins 245800-17367-2686 (85.93%)
    Shannon County, SD: Obama wins 2971-331-48 (78.81%)
    Prince George’s County, MD: Obama wins 332396-38833-2797 (78.49%)