Turning NC Blue 2008 General Election Results, Catawba, North Carolina

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2008 General Election Results, Catawba, North Carolina

Catawba County NC, November 4th 2008

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General election results

'Presidential' ballots cast in Catawba County in the 2008 NC General Election.

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Rows are color coded, red for McCain/Palin, blue for Obama/Biden.
County and method are colored by the county winner, the counts by who won the row.
Margin is expressed in favor of Obama/Biden. Negative numbers are losses for that row.

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County ID	County Name	Method	Obama/ Biden	McCain/ Palin	Barr/ Root	Write- in	Total	Margin	Obama %	McCain %
18	Catawba	PROVISIONAL	122	151	4	1	278	-29	43.88	54.32
18	Catawba	ELECTION DAY	7432	15612	217	141	23402	-8180	31.76	66.71
18	Catawba	EARLY	18102	27230	269	170	45771	-9128	39.55	59.49
18	Catawba	TOTAL	25656	42993	490	312	69451	-17337	36.94	61.9

This table shows 'Presidential' election results for Catawba County in the 2008 General Election in North Carolina.

The counts are from the official results declared by the NC State Board of Elections.

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Voter performance

The following tables show the registered voter demographics and measures. We do not know how individual voters voted, but we do know who voted and several basic measures of them.

Registered party in Catawba County

Party	Total registered	Total voted	Row %	% of total voted	% of total registered %
LIB	50	42	84	0.06	0.05
UNA	23147	14817	64.01	21.03	23.52
DEM	31207	22322	71.53	31.68	31.71
REP	44016	33275	75.6	47.23	44.72
Total	98420	70456	71.59	100	100

Gender of voter in Catawba County

Gender	Total registered	Total voted	Row %	% of total voted	% of total registered %
U	459	365	79.52	0.52	0.47
M	45236	31969	70.67	45.37	45.96
F	52725	38122	72.3	54.11	53.57
Total	98420	70456	71.59	100	100

Race of voter in Catawba County

Race	Total registered	Total voted	Row %	% of total voted	% of total registered %
I	100	73	73	0.1	0.1
M	208	154	74.04	0.22	0.21
U	525	332	63.24	0.47	0.53
	530	420	79.25	0.6	0.54
A	993	461	46.43	0.65	1.01
O	1240	621	50.08	0.88	1.26
B	8384	6351	75.75	9.01	8.52
W	86440	62044	71.78	88.06	87.83
Total	98420	70456	71.59	100	100

Age of voter in Catawba County

Age	Total registered	Total voted	Row %	% of total voted	% of total registered %
Age < 18 Or	2	0	0	0	0
Age 18 - 25	10840	6077	56.06	8.63	11.01
Age Over 66	17352	13241	76.31	18.79	17.63
Age 26 - 40	24762	15756	63.63	22.36	25.16
Age 41 - 65	45464	35382	77.82	50.22	46.19
Total	98420	70456	71.59	100	100

Year of registration in Catawba County

Year	Total registered	Total voted	Row %	% of total voted	% of total registered %
2007	4531	2797	61.73	3.97	4.6
2005-2006	8719	5002	57.37	7.1	8.86
2008	11666	9078	77.82	12.88	11.85
1991-1995	11814	8262	69.93	11.73	12
1996-2000	15883	10287	64.77	14.6	16.14
2000-2004	16985	10387	61.15	14.74	17.26
< 1990	28822	24643	85.5	34.98	29.28
Total	98420	70456	71.59	100	100

Voter performance for people that voted in the Primary and those that registered to vote since the primary in Catawba County

Voted in Primary?	Total registered	Total voted	Row %	% of total voted	% of total registered %
New Registrant	7566	6270	82.87	8.9	7.69
Yes	31251	30230	96.73	42.91	31.75
No	59603	33956	56.97	48.19	60.56
Total	98420	70456	71.59	100	100

Voting method used in Catawba County

Method	Total voted	%
CURBSIDE	98	0.14
PROV	234	0.33
ABS-MAIL	3895	5.53
IN-PERSON	23478	33.32
ABS-1STOP	42751	60.68
Total	70456	100

NOTES: The above counts are derived from the State Board of Elections voter registration and voter history data bases.

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