Statewide voting patterns in Tuesday’s Democratic presidential primary almost mirror the results of the bitter 2006 party primary in which Ned Lamont nudged aside U.S. Sen. Joe Lieberman for the party’s U.S. Senate nomination.
Central Connecticut’s blue collar towns, including Bristol and New Britain, backed Hillary Clinton’s presidential bid this time around just as they threw their support behind Lieberman two years ago.
But the larger cities and white collar suburbs put together enough votes to give Barack Obama the presidential primary win this week in the same way that they propelled Lamont to the U.S. Senate nomination.
Only six municipalities in Connecticut provided more votes to Clinton this week than Bristol did, all of them among the 10 cities and with larger populations than Bristol.
But 15 cities and town delivered more votes to Obama than Bristol, including smaller municipalities such as Greenwich, East Hartford, Fairfield, Windsor, Hamden and Middletown.
The biggest margin of victory for Clinton came in East Haven, where Democrats gave her 70 percent of the vote compared to just 28 percent for Obama.
Bloomfield and Cornwall both delivered more than 70 percent of the Democratic tally to Obama.
Clinton got her highest vote total in Stamford, where she picked up 6,094 votes.
Obama snagged 12,372 in New Haven. Hartford, Bridgeport and Stamford all gave more votes to Obama than Clinton got anywhere.
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2 comments:
I don't know how anyone could support Obama or Hillary. The only reason would be if one supported free, gov't run health care and a cut-and-run policy in Iraq.
Hopefully history will repeat .
B.J. Clinton supported Joe in the primary and he lost .
B.J. Clinton supported Ned in the election and he lost .
B.J. Clinton supported his wife in the primary and she lost .
Let's hope B.J. Clinton keeps backing his wife . :-)
note;
( William Jefferson = Billy Jeff = B.J. )
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