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U.S. Presidential Election: Popular Vote by County, 2008

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Percentage of the popular vote by county that went to John McCain versus Barack Obama in the 2008 presidential election
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The 2008 presidential election in the United States pitted Republican John McCain against Democrat Barack Obama. This layer portrays the popular vote results at the county and county-equivalent level. The map portrays the winner of the popular vote while data probing, placing the mouse over a county, displays the percentage of the vote for each candidate and the total number of votes cast. In the 2008 election, Mr. Obama won most of the counties containing major urban centers. He also won much of California, coastal Washington and Oregon, northern New Mexico, Central Colorado, much of Minnesota, Wisconsin, and northern Illinois. He also won southern Texas, the counties along the southern Mississippi River, a zone extending from central Mississippi through central Alabama, South Carolina and eastern North Carolina. He also won most of the counties on the eastern seaboard from Washington and Baltimore northeast through New England. Mr. McCain won most of the interior of the country outside of those areas previously mentioned. Mr. McCain won the Alaskan municipalities while Mr. Obama won the counties of Hawaii.
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U.S. Presidential Election: Popular Vote by County, 2008

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Virgil C Summer nuclear power plant

River Bend nuclear power plant

St. Lucie nuclear power plant

Clinton nuclear power plant

Catawba nuclear power plant

Columbia nuclear power plant

Limerick nuclear power plant

Fermi nuclear power plant

Salem nuclear power plant

Sequoyah nuclear power plant

LaSalle nuclear power plant

Byron nuclear power plant

Watts Bar nuclear power plant

McGuire nuclear power plant

Alvin W Vogtle nuclear power plant

Braidwood nuclear power plant

Comanche Peak nuclear power plant

Waterford nuclear power plant

Browns Ferry nuclear power plant

Callaway nuclear power plant

Wolf Creek nuclear power plant

Seabrook nuclear power plant

Perry nuclear power plant

Susquehanna nuclear power plant

South Texas nuclear power plant

Peach Bottom nuclear power plant

Palo Verde nuclear power plant

Grand Gulf nuclear power plant

Prairie Island nuclear power plant

Robert Emmett Ginna nuclear power plant

Point Beach nuclear power plant

Nine Mile Point nuclear power plant

Monticello nuclear power plant

H. B. Robinson nuclear power plant

Cooper nuclear power plant

Turkey Point power station

James A Fitzpatrick nuclear power plant

Surry nuclear power plant

Oconee nuclear power plant

Arkansas Nuclear One nuclear power plant

Edwin I Hatch nuclear power plant

Joseph M Farley nuclear power plant

Millstone nuclear power plant

Davis Besse nuclear power plant

Dresden nuclear power plant

Quad Cities nuclear power plant

Beaver Valley nuclear power plant

Brunswick nuclear power plant

Shearon Harris nuclear power plant

North Anna nuclear power plant

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