For those of you who want the numbers for all the races across the county, in all the municipalities, you can download the complete report here. For those of you looking for the specific breakdown in the vote for president in the city of Batavia, we've extracted those numbers for you. Adding up the totals for every municipality is much more of a tedious and consuming task than we had at first assumed, so we've scrapped the original plan of detailing all the race counts. Further, for the city, I've only tallied the counts for the Democrats and Republicans, since the others were negligible. Nader/Gonzalez drew the most of any of the other tickets, and they only pulled 16 at most per ward.
City of Batavia election results totals (by Ward):
Ward 1:
- Obama/Biden = 535 votes
- McCain/Palin = 704 votes
Ward 2:
- Obama/Biden = 501 votes
- McCain/Palin = 521 votes
Ward 3:
- Obama/Biden = 431 votes
- McCain/Palin = 421 votes
Ward 4:
- Obama/Biden = 568 votes
- McCain/Palin = 585 votes
Ward 5:
- Obama/Biden = 384 votes
- McCain/Palin = 345 votes
Ward 6:
- Obama/Biden = 404 votes
- McCain/Palin = 379 votes
In total, Obama/Biden pulled 2,823 votes in the city. McCain/Palin drew 2,955. (Please forgive me if I made any calculation errors, though I think everything should be correct.)
WOW! President-elect Obama
WOW! President-elect Obama lost the city of Batavia by only 132 votes, despite the racism of some local voters. My aunt overheard a group of senior ladies at her beauty parlor on Vine St complaining before the election that the "colored are going to take over America" when discussing the Obama candidacy.
The election results are amazing, truly revolutionary, given that Batavia has been a very difficult city in the past for Democrats to get their message accross, especially since the loss of most of our factory union jobs & the flight of our young & well educated to sunbelt states in search of work, as well as Republican emphasis on divisive social wedge issues. I am delighted that the 2 party system is alive & functioning in Batavia. Let's all get behind our new president & give him a chance to show what he can do for our country & our world.
Hello Mr. Lazik: I think you
Hello Mr. Lazik:
I think you are painting with some rather broad strokes and very dangerous ones at that with your first paragraph:
<i>"WOW! President-elect Obama lost the city of Batavia by only 132 votes, <b>despite the racism of some local voters.</b> My aunt overheard a group of senior ladies at her beauty parlor on Vine St complaining before the election that the "colored are going to take over America" when discussing the Obama candidacy."</i>
WOW? Words overheard in a beauty parlor merely indicate the view of the people engaged in the conversation. Clearly, the election of the President-elect was not affected by a few gray-haired, misinformed seniors in upstate New York - just as the anti-Catholic sentiments of millions did not ultimately prevail in the 1960 presidential election.
Sincerely,
Kelly Hansen
David, you might have missed
David,
you might have missed that Democrats or Democrat backed candidates won the majority in the last two city wide elections. A Democrat is city council President. Would you want to try again?
He did say some and those
He did say some and those ladies turning blue are some people
Not broad nor dangerous
Racism does exist
Fear exists
Racism is prevalent
I figure racism abounds in areas of low diversity
One group of ladies -likely not entering the parlor together- is pretty telling
To think that 3, 4 or 5 ladies meeting up
-somewhat- randomly
and having these views in common to the extent that they all contribute publicly
...
Not sure you want to be saying that some peoples votes don't count, either
ultimately prevail? Maybe not but ...? The Kennedy election was Bush/Gore close and who knows what played into the final results ..or the assassination of JFK and his rising brother RFK
Sounds a little like the fact of how like slavery didn't ultimately prevail
Don't know how one can so easily skip over hatred so long as hatred doesn't quiiiiiite win
We don't stand behind the president, IMO
We don't ask him to change things
we ask ourselves if we want change and if so we change
our changing is what allows a president and gov't to "officially" create change