Somerville election results, and general post-election open thread

[ron_newman]

Unofficial Somerville election results, broken down by precinct and ward, are here. I don't think you'll find any great surprises. Citywide:

Total votes: 35062
Obama-Biden: 28467 (81.2%)
Romney-Ryan: 4865 (13.9%)
Stein-Honkala: 747 (2.1%)
Johnson-Gray: 543 (1.5%)
Write In: 108 (0.3%)
Blank: 332 (0.9%)

Local question 4, the Community Preservation Act property tax surcharge, won overwhelmingly, 24358-7714 (with 2990 blanks). I hope this will bring much-needed repairs and restoration to the West Branch Library and the Prospect Hill Tower.

I'd love to compare this year's local results to 2008, but I can't find them online anywhere. If you know where to find these, please link to them in the comments here. The pages linked from my 11/7/2008 post no longer work. ETA: Tom Champion e-mailed me an Excel spreadsheet from which I extracted these citywide results for 2008. I also converted that 2008 spreadsheet into a Google Doc which you can find here.

This post is an open thread for any discussion whatsoever about yesterday's election (Somerville-related or otherwise).

Comments

[thespian.livejournal.com]

When I was giving out coffee at Teele Square, I went to post a one line thing to facebook and found that my fingers were no longer warm enough to be recognized by my phone.

[plumtreeblossom.livejournal.com]

That is SO awesome what you did, by the way. I meant to say so yesterday on Facebook, but I had like 12 browser windows open all day and I didn't get a chance. America needs more cool Canadians! :-D

[ron_newman]

Denise Provost and Joe Lynch came by with coffee and donuts for the 6-1 line, which people greatly appreciated.