December 03, 2008
Did you know?
I was looking at some of the elections data for my ongoing series about the shift and found that John McCain only garnered 544 fewer votes in Miami-Dade County than George W. Bush did in 2004.
It wasn't so much that people shifted to the Democrat, it's that the Democrats recruited a bunch of new voters. We knew this already but not the extent of it. Obama garnered 90,099 more votes than Kerry did.
According to county elections data 21,907 more blacks voted in 2008 than in 2004. And they almost uniformly voted for Obama based on the data I have seen.
Posted by Henry Louis Gomez at December 3, 2008 01:12 AM
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