Posted by
Ohio Voter on Thursday, September 25, 2008 4:30:17 PM
In my previous post, I explained how even though Ohio has traditionally
been very close from total votes perspective, when you break down the
vote results by region, Ohio is very similar to the US – the relatively
few urban areas (I.e. Cleveland, Toledo, Columbus) trend Democratic
while the many less populated areas trend Republican.
The
results of the Bush/Gore 2000 election held true to form. Gore ran up a
315,145 vote advantage in 16 counties, with the Cleveland (165,000) and
Toledo (35,000) metropolitan areas accounting for over half of the
total. Bush then won the remaining 72 counties by a net of 480,164
votes with an average win of 6,600 votes in each county. This was
enough for Bush to carry Ohio in 2000 by what was then considered a
close 165,019 votes. Overall, Bush totaled 2,351,209 votes to Gore's
2,186,190.
With 7.5M registered voters, the turnout in the
2000 election sat at 62%. The registered voters were split fairly
evenly, with 3.8M registered voters in “Bush” counties and 3.7M voters
in “Gore” counties.
In my next post, we'll take a look at the leadup to the 2004 Bush/Kerry election.
I will also be cross posting these posts on my blogspot site as I can track visitors better there:
http://ohiovoter.blogspot.com/