Election results, and random thoughts

(Updated to fix an error: I had inadvertently switched the Green and Republican vote numbers. Wishful thinking on my part, obviously.)

Here's the results for the Presidential race:

Clinton	48499
Obama	80690
other	2156

And in the contested IL-06 Congressional primary:

Jagla	12178
Morgenthaler	42187

Who the winners are here are hardly surprising. This is Obama's home state, and he is a popular Senator. Jagla was widely regarded as a longshot against the more experienced and charismatic Morgenthaler. But the real story here is in the magnitude of the numbers. Holy huge turnout, Batman! Let's compare the total number of ballots taken for the past few primaries:

Year	Democratic Ballots	Green Ballots	Republican Ballots
2004	63951	n/a	86993
2006	44184	n/a	98104
2008	131635	166	107769

While Republican turnout has been steadily increasing over the years, Democratic turnout just took a quantum leap upwards, to the point where more people in Dupage are pulling Democratic ballots than are pulling Republican ones. Is this the year we turn Dupage blue? Stay tuned.