Ward breakdown
For Talent-McCaskill and for Amendment 2 are here. BUT these are unofficial results and they've been through the imperfect "Drebes human transcriber method." So while I have a high degree of confidence in them, I can't promise they're totally error-free. Plus I didn't include the two alternative candidates. In other words, before you write your senior thesis based on these numbers, go down to the BOE and get the real stuff.
Interesting to note:
Talent's African American outreach did zippo. McCaskill won northside wards with 91-96% of the vote.
Talent only managed 73 votes in the 22nd ward to McCaskill's 2,369. So while there were 800 more votes cast in the 14th ward, for example, the 22nd actually delivered more votes to McCaskill.
Ward 16 was the most competitive in the city - McCaskill won 56% there, and Stem Cell only won 54%.
How nice to see that the Archdiocese's own ward (28) and the City's most Catholic wards (16, 23) delivered the most votes of all wards (the only City wards with over 3,000 "yes" votes each) in favor of Amendment 2.
Posted by Brian on Thu., Nov 9, 2006 at 11:07 AMas a resident of the 16th i can tell you things have been slowly changing. jeff smith beat gambaro 36% to 23% in the primary in ward 16. there is still a diehard catholic vote here, but looking at the exit polls on Amend 2 showed 45% of catholics voted for the amendment in MO overall. take that, harshbishop.
Posted by diatriber on Thu., Nov 9, 2006 at 11:19 AMMy fellow 16th Warder Diatriber is mistaken with one detail. Gambaro carried the 16th, beating Smith by the numbers indicated. The 23rd was the ward Smith carried that everyone figured would go to Gambaro.
But yes, the 16th is indeed changing. The city's most Republican (make that "least Democratic") ward gave McCaskill a double-digit margin. As recently as 2000, Matt Blunt carried it in his race for Secretary of State. (Bill Federer also routed Russ Carnahan here just two years ago, but Russ trailed the entire ticket (including Nancy Farmer vs Kit Bond) in the city in that contest.)
Posted by St Louis Oracle on Thu., Nov 9, 2006 at 7:17 PM
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