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

[tsuki-no-bara.livejournal.com]

i volunteered at the brown school and when i got there at ten the wait was an hour and a half, but they told me that earlier the wait was two hours. evidently people started out waiting outside, but by the time i got there the line was all inside the building. (up and down the stairs and down a couple hallways, but inside.)

[fangirl715.livejournal.com]

I got to the Brown School around 7:50ish, and didn't get out until around 9:20, so it was an hour & a half then. The line started out the door, down Josephine, and then took a sharp right into the parking lot, but sometime after 8 the officer on duty started moving people inside so we wouldn't all freeze, although it wasn't a whole lot warmer until you got down to the lower level and away from the door. (BTW, I brought along a batch of brownies for the poll workers--were any left when you got there? :-)

[tsuki-no-bara.livejournal.com]

there were! and i ate one and it was yummy! i thought one of the other volunteers had brought them. thank you!

i figured everyone moved inside because it was (theoretically) warmer than standing outside. i admit i was really surprised when i got there at ten and there was NO ONE waiting outside, and then i was surprised again when there was this long line snaking up and down the hall inside and up the stairs.