Ralph Nader 699 (0.88%)Missed it by that much.
Cynthia McKinney 127 (0.16%)
John McCain 38,918 (49%)
Bob Barr 303 (0.38%)
Chuck Baldwin 259 (0.33%)
Barack Obama 38,612 (48.62%)
WRITE-IN 501 (0.63%)
Total: 79,419
Today is kind of a sad day for me because my Dad died exactly one year ago. He was a real political junkie and would have truly enjoyed the 2008 election season. Sure, it was a long campaign and he got to see a lot of it, but he died believing that Hillary would get the Democratic nomination, which was what pretty much everyone thought last November.
Oh well -- at least he got to see the Democrats regain control of the House and Senate in 2006. And he was following politics right up to the end. He wasn't able to get out of bed for the last couple days of his life, but we were giving him updates on some of the stuff that was going on.
In fact, the last thing Dad read was an article we printed out for him stating that Donald Rumsfeld had to flee France out of fear that he might be arrested on civil charges related to the authorization of torture at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay. The article put a smile on his face, and he died the next morning. Not a bad way to go.
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