McHENRY COUNTY DEMS--Something to Celebrate Part 1
Well, I missed the shindig at Govener’s Pub to watch returns and celebrate due to the sleet/snow storm that made travel a challenge. Too bad, because it had the earmarks of a damn good party. McHenry County Democrats have a lot to celebrate. Of course the storm kept other Dems away and party Chair Tom Cynor was occupied with advanced baby arrival alert.
As of 2:30 a.m. Wednesday with 100% of precincts reporting, according to unofficial results posted by County Clerk Kathy Schultz on the McVote Web site, 33,421 county residents voted in the Democratic Presidential Primary. 31,211 took Republican ballots. These figures may not yet include early voting and absentee ballots which were to be counted only after all precincts had reported. If not, the outcome will not change dramatically because early voting showed the same tilt to the Democrats.
It is safe to say that this is absolutely unprecedented in a county that has been a bastion of Republican power since the Civil War.
As in the rest of the state Barack Obama was a landslide winner. *
DEM PRESIDENT
Vote for
1
Precincts Reporting
212/212
100.00%
BARACK OBAMA
DEM
20812
62.27%
HILLARY CLINTON
DEM
11945
35.74%
JOHN EDWARDS
DEM
545
1.63%
WILLIAM B RICHARDSON
DEM
31
0.09%
DENNIS J. KUCINICH
DEM
54
0.16%
CHRISTOPHER J DODD
DEM
8
0.02%
JOE BIDEN
DEM
26
0.08%
Local races in entry below.
*All election results from McVote.org