Lower turnout helps the GOP in the NRV
By Christian Trejbal
National political parties, pundits and prognosticators will deconstruct the results of Tuesday’s elections for weeks and months. Let them. We have local lessons to learn.
Four years ago, Montgomery County and Radford were splotches of Democratic blue on the electoral maps of Southwest Virginia. This year, they redshifted.
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Trejbal is a Roanoke Times editorial writer based in the New River Valley. You can reach him at christian.trejbal@roanoke.com or 381-1645. Follow him on Twitter at @ctrejbal.
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Actually, if you look at the final count from Radford, the city remained in Democratic hands. President Barack Obama carried the municipality by 210 votes. He BARELY lost Montgomery County, with Romney only carrying the county by 103 votes.
Comment by The Rev. Wes Jamison — November 11, 2012 @ 9:56 pm
I worked the poll at Bethel UMC on Lovely Mount, and we had a record turnout, and the counts were for Romney.
Comment by Holly Moore — November 13, 2012 @ 12:22 pm
It’s the first time Montgomery County didn’t vote for the national winner since the Ford/Carter race of 1976. Fewer than 50 US counties could make that claim.
Comment by Lonnie Chafin — November 14, 2012 @ 6:48 pm