SSP’s Presidential Results by CD project continues to chip away at the outstanding districts left up on our big board, and I’m pleased to announce that today, thanks to the tireless efforts of SSP hero jeffmd and the lawyerly phone charm of DavidNYC, we now have complete data for New York’s newly-open 20th District.
Votes cast: 330,992
Obama: 167,827 (50.7%)
McCain: 157,879 (47.7%)
A traditionally GOP district, Bush carried the 20th by a 54-46 margin in 2004, and also smacked Al Gore by a 51-44 spread four years earlier.
That’s one more district that we can take down from our big board, but we still have plenty more to go. If you enjoy the work that this project has produced, please consider lending a hand by calling county offices to inquire about obtaining precinct data. We can do this thing, but we need more people to participate in lightening the load. More details are available here.
I admire all of the work, though I don’t read all of it. I know its useful.
Here’s a question. I’d be willing to help, but have no idea how.
I know you post what you have and what you need, but what are the best steps for getting the data (besides polite phone calls and not paying for them to shiop the data to us).
I’d love to hear a step-by-step guide for how I could help. I live in Philadelphia but wouldn’t mind helping anywhere really. I jsut don’t want to do anything stupid top annoy whoever owns the data, and don’t want to waste anyone’s time (including my own).
Keep up the good work1
Obama had a +6 national margin. So it’s still Republican-leaning. Not to mention, as whoever-it-was mentioned, that it’s got Republican registration in the 40s and Democratic registration in the 20s.
make sure to include all of the “other” vote.
The current percentages you have for NY are probably off by about 0.07%. Check out Dave Leip’s numbers are USELECTIONATLAS.ORG, especially looking for the so-called “scrap vote” totals. And note, Leip is considered THE definitive source for end totals. And under and over-votes are not calculated in.
But like I said, GREAT WORK.
There is also an excellent program through UUorld to help graphically illustrate these results and the swing vs. 2004, 2000, etc…
Gillibrand pulled this district Dem. She far out-paced Obama. I’d be curious to see a hypothetical 50-50 Congressional matchup’s effect on the Presidential race. No way to know, but I think her being on the ballot was a positive factor for Obama.