Working my polling place all day yesterday, I was nervous. By the afternoon, the rush was gone, and there was not a single voter in line at 7pm when the Chief, Rich (who was the youngest member of the elections board in his hometown in Pennsylvania in the first election in which 18 year olds were allowed to participate) called "The Polls Are Closed!" and shut the doors at Francis Hazel Reid. Throughout the day, I was impressed by the people's firm commitment to the vote, and the seriousness with which the voters took their right. Nonetheless, I was nervous. I felt like the precinct had been running about 55%-45% Obama, and I knew that if E. Leesburg didn't do better than that, we'd have a hard time making our friend Rollie's vote as an Obama Elector count this year.
I've never been happier to be wrong.
East Leesburg ResultsTwo-to-one for Barack Obama.
Barack Obama and Joe Biden - 1,243 - 64.57%
John McCain and Sarah Palin - 647 - 33.61%
Two to one for the African-American Democrat in a Loudoun County precinct.
That is change. Yes, we did.
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Wow!! Holy....wow!!! Congratulations, man. You done real good.
Further, he won in every Leesburg precinct, except possibly Cool Spings, for which the election board had him down by only 35 votes. However that doesn't include absentee votes, and I think when absentees are considered he likely won Cool Springs also.
Absentee's voted for Obama by a 60% margin, and there were 422 absentee's in my pricinct of Smart Mill, which is about the same size as Cool Springs. That would have added a net of 84 votes to Obama, putting him comfortably over the top. I mention this because generally we consider Cool Springs a Republican stronghold.
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