I noticed something when I was looking at the election results in Johnson County.
Johnson County reports absentee results as a separate polling location. Johns Edwards withdrew from the race at a point when absentee voting had already started…
Registered Missourians who will not be able to go to their polling place on Election Day may vote absentee beginning six weeks prior to an election.
Election Summary Report
JOHNSON COUNTY MO
PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARY
Summary For ABSENTEE, All Counters, All Races
Unofficial results
As reported by
Gilbert Powers, County Clerk
Feb 5th, 2008 Presidential Preference Primary 02/05/08
19:58:02US PRESIDENT DEM
Total Votes 240
HILLARY CLINTON 124 51.67%
BARACK OBAMA 81 33.75%
JOHN EDWARDS 33 13.75%
RALPH SPELBRING 0 0.00%
DENNIS J. KUCINICH 0 0.00%
BILL RICHARDSON 1 0.42%
JOE BIDEN 0 0.00%
CHRISTOPHER J. DODD 0 0.00%
MIKE GRAVEL 0 0.00%
UNCOMMITTED 1 0.42%
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Election Summary Report
JOHNSON COUNTY MO
PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARY
Summary For Jurisdiction Wide, All Counters, All Races
Unofficial results
As reported by
Gilbert Powers, County Clerk
Feb 5th, 2008 Presidential Preference Primary 02/05/08
21:30:34US PRESIDENT DEM DEM
Total
Number of Precincts 11
Precincts Reporting 11 100.0 %
Total Votes 4788HILLARY CLINTON 2548 53.22%
BARACK OBAMA 2062 43.07%
JOHN EDWARDS 147 3.07%
RALPH SPELBRING 2 0.04%
DENNIS J. KUCINICH 3 0.06%
BILL RICHARDSON 5 0.10%
JOE BIDEN 0 0.00%
CHRISTOPHER J. DODD 1 0.02%
MIKE GRAVEL 8 0.17%
UNCOMMITTED 12 0.25%
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That’s a ten point difference for two candidates.
I think I might go check the results in other counties.
I noticed this Tuesday night, too.
This is evidence the Edwards vote broke mostly to Obama.