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RINO Tom
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« on: October 25, 2015, 07:35:16 PM »

Mine has only been around since 1996, but I'm actually surprised at how Democratic it is.  I usually think of it as relatively affluent and white, but I guess I overlooked a few things:

1) It's Iowa City ... it's a liberal place.
2) There are actually quite a few heavily Asian neighborhoods that I didn't actually know were in our precinct.
3) There are a lot of University of Iowa employees, who needless to say are a Democratic voting bloc.
4) There are also some poorer areas that are in our precinct that I had no idea were included.  We vote at our neighborhood elementary school, so it often seems like it's just our neighborhood voting, because you see a bunch of people you know, so that probably severely overstates the Republican vote (I always do a yard sign count for Presidential elections, and Obama had like 2-3 more in 2008 and Romney had a decisive advantage in 2012).

Anyway:

2012: Obama (63%) over Romney (36%)
2008: Obama (68%) over McCain (31%)
2004: Kerry (52%) over Bush (47%)
2000: Gore (54%) over Bush (42%)
1996: Clinton (61%) over Dole (31%)

I also looked back at elections for Senate, House and Governor back to 2002; the only Republican victories were Grassley (51%) over Conlin (47%) in the 2010 Senate election and Leach (65%) over Thomas (35%) in the 2002 House election.
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