Wednesday, November 7, 2012

How Dorchester Voted In The Presidential, Senate Races


It's the day after Election Day.  Half of America is happy; the other half is depressed.  America's brand of democracy is constantly creating winners and losers in the political process. 

Barack Obama is your president again for the next four years, but Nebraska and Dorchester area voters didn't want him re-elected.  Mitt Romney was favored 61-38 percent in Nebraska.  In the Dorchester precinct, Romney beat Obama 56 percent to 42 percent.

In the race for U.S. Senate, Deb Fischer beat Bob Kerrey rather handily.  In Nebraska, Fischer won 58-42 percent, a wider than many in the media had expected.  In the Dorchester precinct, Fischer won 53-47 percent -- nearly exactly what the Dorchester Times survey showed a couple of days prior to the actual vote.  (Our Times poll showed voters favoring Fischer 53-46.)

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