Can someone confirm this? Guam- Obama leading?

[Mother Of Four]

I was surfing trying to find anything about it, and found this article on an independant site. There's no link to where this person got their information. If this is true, I may just need to go change my pants. Happily, but still :hi:


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Barr winning 0.7% of Guam vote
November 4th, 2008 · 2 Comments

In addition to two small towns in New Hampshire, polls have also closed in Guam, where it is already Wednesday morning. While Guam has no electoral votes, the presidential race does appear on the ballot. Libertarian Bob Barr is the only alternative candidate listed, and with about half of Guam’s votes tallied, he has 97 votes, or 0.7% of the total. Democrat Barack Obama leads Republican John McCain 8,796 to 5,355.

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http://www.independentpoliticalreport.com/2008/11/barr-winning-07-of-guam-vote/

[PBS Poll-435]

1. Yep

No EVs, of course.

http://www.kuam.com/decision2008/results/general/

[Mother Of Four]

3. But still-

Isn't Guam usually a good indication?

(boogies down and runs to change into another pair of jeans)

[Schulzz]

2. Yes, results at the moment:

http://www.kuam.com/decision2008/results/general/

1 OBAMA, Barack 20,120
2 MCCAIN, John 11,940

[KamaAina]

4. Guam has a huge military population

Of course, if I were stationed there, I'd vote absentee in my home state, with the EVs and all. I have no idea how many servicemembers are actually registered there.

That looks like about 30,000 votes. The entire population of the island is about 120,000, including many who are under 18 or are not U.S. citizens. Wee-ha! :bounce:

edit: spelling

[Hansel]

5. 2004 Results

George W. Bush 17,264 (64%)
• John Kerry 9,540 (35%)
• Ralph Nader 153
• Campagna Badnarik 53

Edited to add: Close to a reversal of 2004. Obama has 63% and McCain 37%.

Works for me.