My jubilation over Barack's victory here in Seminole County was premature. I based it on a story I heard on the radio--apparently it was breaking blue but the final tally wasn't in. Well, the Sentinel reports today that McCain received 104, 885 votes compared to 99,140 for Obama. That's a difference of 5, 745 votes. My apologies.
Nonetheless, considering that the difference between Bush and Kerry was a whopping 31,201 votes in our small county, I would say that I can no longer claim this is a "blood red" county. More of a pinkish-purple...
OK--we turned Florida and the USA blue. But Seminole, we still got some work to do.
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Do you retire now?
Where are your numbers from?
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McCain won by about 5800 votes, 50.9 to 48.12.
Correction made...
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