Obama won Salt Lake County!

[helderheid]

Election surprise: Obama won Salt Lake County voters' nod
Politics » Democrats say win is a big step for party's plans in Beehive State.

By Matt Canham

The Salt Lake Tribune

Salt Lake Tribune
Updated:11/19/2008 09:34:26 AM MST


Updated election results released Tuesday show that Salt Lake County voters favored Barack Obama over John McCain -- but just barely -- marking the first time in decades that a Democratic presidential hopeful won the state's most populous county.

With the addition of more than 29,000 provisional and late-arriving absentee ballots, President-elect Obama scored a come-from-behind victory over McCain. The county's official election canvass didn't change the outcome in any other race.

Obama trailed McCain by about 1,900 votes before the provisionals, cast mostly by people who moved but didn't change their voter registration, and absentees were added.

The final result gave Obama a 296-vote victory, which equates to less than one-tenth of 1 percent.

The race was so close that if McCain wanted a recount in Salt Lake County, he could get one. But no one really expects that to happen.

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[Drunken Irishman]

1. YAY! GOBAMA!

This makes me so happy.

[helderheid]

7. C'mere!

:hug:

[bluestateguy]

2. Obama took 3 counties in Utah

Not bad when you consider that Gore and Kerry were swept in all Utah counties.

[patrice]

3. Don't forget that's where Rocky Anderson lives.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocky_Anderson

[acmavm]

4. Wow! That's great. But surprising since Utah is also responsible for

giving us this freak of nature

OOPS! I tried to upload a picture of Orin Hatch. My computer refused.

[helderheid]

5. VERY smart computer

[Drunken Irishman]

8. The thing is, I don't even think Utahns like Hatch.

They just keep voting him in because he's so known.

[kestrel91316]

6. Salt Lake City is an island of sanity in an otherwise batshit crazy state.

[helderheid]

9. Hey, I'm in Sandy - VERY red Sandy and it is ALSO in Salt Lake County - this is big!