To the right of Barack Obama
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- November
- 5
No, not in terms of political bent.
I’m just looking at the races to the right of presidential slot on the ballot in Rockland and whether voters worked their way down the line.
Consider that there were 65,143 votes cast for the Obama-Biden ticket and 58,199 for the McCain-Palin ticket. That’s 123,342 votes out of 124,166 cast for presidential tickets in Rockland.
So, go from there—124,166 votes cast.
Move over to the state Senate race, where incumbent Republican Thomas Morahan of New City faced Greg Julian, a history prof who had been active in Democratic politics for decades and previously challenged Rep. Ben Gilman.
Morahan won easily, but there were just 110,503 votes cast in Rockland.
We’ll call it 14,000 fewer than in the presidential race.
Back when Gilman represented Rockland in a district that included Orange and sometimes a sliver of Westchester, he was it.
But he got reapportioned into retirement, with his district split among three others based in the Bronx or Westchester. This time around, all three incumbents won—Eliot Engel, Nita Lowey and Jon Hall.
Total up their three races to get the total of votes for Congress cast in Rockland —and it’s just 103,253 or about 11,000 fewer than in the state senate race and 21,000 fewer than voted for president.
You can look at those numbers two ways.
The presidential race drew an extra 21,000 voters or a lot of voters lost interest as they headed across the ballot.
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