it’s interesting, though, again, the proof is in the pudding. it will be interesting next election to see how much the trend holds.

So the apathetic flock to the unincorporated areas – I suppose my gut instinct relayed above is correct, but not in your ‘hood. I stand corrected.

Mike,

A sample of one election doesn’t make a pattern. I’ll be the first guy to nod my head with you at the mid terms. Don’t get too smug in the meantime, and stay away from the koolaid.

I keep a healthy distance from either party knowing we’ll all get burned if we hang around long enough.

I was about to say what Tim just said. But to your hypothesis that conservatives “voted with their feet”, are you suggesting that they somehow “unregistered” to vote? hardly. This is a town that is rapidly becoming purple.

Your numbers are slight off. In fact one-third of the population is under 18, but the 85 number is the number of registered voters in the City proper with 160K in people and one third under 18, sooo the City residents are about 80% registered to vote. Not perfect, but not bad. If one kicks up adult expatriates the City is probably closer to 90%.

The County areas not so much. There are 16,000 more voters out of an incremental population of 115K. Kick out the kiddies and that results
in a registration rate of about 20%. No wonder Dave Bossert gets elected with 23 votes!

This statistic is not that surprising being that those who spent the most time in colleges that lean very liberal would vote for Obama. I’d like to know how that number breaks down between those who graduated in liberal arts vs those in business and science.

Many who voted for Obama were voting for the ‘anti-Bush’. As the current polls are showing many are now regretting that vote. I’d like to see how that polling is playing out in the precincts of Northbridge now.

The only poll that will really count is the elections in November. Me thinks the conservatives will make a comeback.

We had ~90% of the 85k registered voters vote.

We have 275k people in the valley Assuming 1/3 are under 18, that leaves another 92k unregistered voters.

This valley has a tremendous amount of apathetic folks in it.

On behalf of all the cool kids who mistreated you in high school, please accept my most sincere apologies.