[ExI] unanimous decision, was: RE: An old skeleton tumbles out of the list closet

[BillK]

On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 12:54 AM, spike wrote:
> Indeed.  There were 59 voting divisions in and around Philadelphia in which
> Mitt Romney received not one vote, not a single vote.  The total Obama votes
> in those 59 districts totaled 19,605 votes, so 19,605 to zero:
>
> http://articles.philly.com/2012-11-12/news/35069785_1_romney-supporters-mitt-romney-sasha-issenberg
>
> This is what I really want to know: in those 59 divisions, how many votes
> did Gary Johnson get?
>


The article you quote gives a reasonable sounding explanation for the
results. These districts are almost 100% African-American who all
voted for Obama. The electoral list (out-of-date and wrong) shows only
a handful of people recorded as Republican.

Google gives the total results for Philadelphia county.
Obama    85.2%   557024
Romney   14.1%    91840
Johnson     0.4%     2721

It doesn't seem too surprising that 59 out of 1,687 divisions had no
votes for Romney.
Probably a lot more than 59 had no votes for Johnson.

BillK