Sunday, February 10, 2008

Obama won Boston

Barack Obama’s big weekend in Louisiana, Nebraska, and Washington State has provided an opportunity to look closer at the numbers for last Tuesday’s Massachusetts Democratic primary. Lost in the Clinton victory in Massachusetts was that Obama actually won Boston, Cambridge, Somerville, and a number of notable towns. But the Clinton margin in the old factory cities and mill towns was just too great. Fall River essentially cancelled out Boston and Worcester cancelled Cambridge.

Top 15 cities and towns for Obama by margin of victory:

CityClintonObamaMargin
Boston51,55161,3229,771
Cambridge9,41617,2137,797
Amherst1,9544,1392,185
Northampton3,4585,0861,628
Brookline6,3127,8501,538
Concord2,1413,2591,118
Somerville8,2349,033799
Acton2,2882,925637
Nantucket8931,395502
Wellesley2,9713,466495
Lexington4,5385,028490
Lincoln6981,150452
Williamstown7821,229447
Belmont3,1203,552432
Weston1,1031,529426

Top 15 cities and towns for Clinton by margin of victory:

CityClintonObamaMargin
Fall River12,5443,1209,424
Worcester15,9548,8267,128
New Bedford11,2414,3776,864
Quincy11,2925,1906,102
Peabody8,1982,8955,303
Lynn8,7703,7665,004
Lawrence6,3762,0494,327
Weymouth7,4373,1594,278
Lowell8,6714,4154,256
Revere6,2562,1384,118
Chicopee6,6342,5264,108
Taunton6,1152,1443,971
Medford8,0434,7413,302
Everett4,4801,3893,091
Haverhill6,4783,4093,069

Official results for Cambridge and Somerville:

VotesCambridgeSomerville
Biden3237
Clinton9,4168,234
Dodd165
Edwards252264
Gravel2539
Kucinich11373
Obama17,2139,033
Richardson3540
No preference54110

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