Final Presidential Results

Final Presidential Results

(http://www.electoral-vote.com/)

Not a lot of political news on Christmas day, but here is some reworked old news. Below are the final results (taken from the Wikipedia's presidential election page). In a few cases, the rounding is slightly different from the earlier results posted here. The map software uses integers, so for each candidate, the percentage of the total vote was computed and rounded to the nearest integer, then the map drawn. This algorithm could give slightly different results in a few cases than doing all the computations to several decimal places. If you want to play with the data, they are available in Excel format and .csv format. For example, you could sort the states by Nader's percentage or whatever. These files are also on the Data galore page (on the menu) in case you want them in the future. Nebraska is colored purple below because although McCain got more votes in the state than Obama, Obama won one of the electoral votes (NE-02).

State	Obama	McCain	Nader	Barr	Baldwin	McKinney	Others	Total
Alabama	813,479	1,266,546	6,788	4,991	4,310	0	3,705	2,099,819
Alaska	123,594	193,841	3,783	1,589	1,660	0	1,730	326,197
Arizona	1,034,707	1,230,111	11,301	12,555	1,371	3,406	24	2,293,475
Arkansas	422,310	638,017	12,882	4,776	4,023	3,470	1,139	1,086,617
California	8,274,473	5,011,781	108,381	67,582	3,145	38,774	57,764	13,561,900
Colorado	1,288,576	1,073,589	13,350	10,897	6,233	2,822	5,894	2,401,361
Connecticut	997,772	629,428	19,162		311	90	29	1,646,792
Delaware	255,459	152,374	2,401	1,109	626	385	58	412,412
District of Columbia	245,800	17,367	958			590	1,138	265,853
Florida	4,282,074	4,045,624	28,124	17,218	7,915	2,887	6,902	8,390,744
Georgia	1,844,137	2,048,744	1,123	28,812	1,305	249	62	3,924,432
Hawaii	325,871	120,566	3,825	1,314	1,013	979		453,568
Idaho	236,440	403,012	7,175	4,747	3,658			655,032
Illinois	3,419,673	2,031,527	30,952	19,645	8,256	11,838	1,160	5,523,051
Indiana	1,374,039	1,345,648	909	29,257	1024	87	90	2,751,054
Iowa	828,940	682,379	8,014	4,590	4,445	1,423	7,332	1,537,123
Kansas	514,765	699,655	10,527	6,706	4,148	35	36	1,235,872
Kentucky	751,985	1,048,462	15,378	5,989	4,694			1,826,508
Louisiana	782,989	1,148,275	6,997		2,581	9,187	10,732	1,960,761
Maine	421,923	295,273	10,636			2,900	431	731,163
Maryland	1,629,467	959,862	14,713	9,842	3,760	4,747	9,205	2,631,596
Massachusetts	1,904,097	1,108,854	28,841	13,189	4,971	6,550	14,483	3,080,985
Michigan	2,872,579	2,048,639	33,085	23,716	14,685	8,892	170	5,001,766
Minnesota	1,573,354	1,275,409	30,152	9,174	6,787	5,174	10,319	2,910,369
Mississippi	554,662	724,597	4,011	2,529	2,551	1,034	481	1,289,865
Missouri	1,441,911	1,445,814	17,813	11,386	8,201	80		2,925,205
Montana	231,667	242,763	3,686	1,355			10,638	490,109
Nebraska	333,319	452,979	5,406	2,740	2,972	1,028	2,837	801,281
Nevada	533,736	412,827	6,150	4,263	3,194	1,411	6,267	967,848
New Hampshire	384,826	316,534	3,503	2,217	226	40	3,624	710,970
New Jersey	2,215,422	1,613,207	21,298	8,441	3,956	3,636	2,277	3,868,237
New Mexico	472,422	346,832	5,327	2,428	1,597	1,552		830,158
New York	4,769,700	2,742,298	41,086	19,513	614	12,729	8,873	7,594,813
North Carolina	2,142,651	2,128,474		25,722			13,942	4,310,789
North Dakota	141,278	168,601	4,189	1,354	1,199			316,621
Ohio	2,933,388	2,674,491	42,288	19,888	12,550	8,513	7,142	5,698,260
Oklahoma	502,496	960,165						1,462,661
Oregon	1,037,291	738,475	18,614	7,635	7,693	4,543	13,613	1,827,864
Pennsylvania	3,276,363	2,655,885	42,977	19,912				5,995,137
Rhode Island	296,571	165,391	4,829	1,382	675	797	122	469,767
South Carolina	862,449	1,034,896	5,053	7,283	6,827	4,461		1,920,969
South Dakota	170,924	203,054	4,267	1,835	1,895			381,975
Tennessee	1,087,437	1,479,178	11,560	8,547	8,191	2,499	2,337	2,599,749
Texas	3,528,633	4,479,328	5,214	56,116	5,052	671	2,781	8,077,795
Utah	327,670	596,030	8,416	6,966	12,012	982	294	952,370
Vermont	219,262	98,974	3,339	1,067	500		1,904	325,046
Virginia	1,959,532	1,725,005	11,483	11,067	7,474	2,344	6,355	3,723,260
Washington	1,750,848	1,229,216	29,489	12,728	9,432	3,819	1,346	3,036,878
West Virginia	303,857	397,466	7,219		2,465	2,355	89	713,451
Wisconsin	1,677,211	1,262,393	17,605	8,858	5,072	4,216	8,062	2,983,417
Wyoming	82,868	164,958	2,525	1,594	1,192		1,521	254,658
U.S. Total	69,456,897	59,934,814	736,804	524,524	196,461	161,195	226,908	131,237,603

Full Cabinet Named Quickly - fastest of any President in 32 years

Full Cabinet Named Quickly (www.electoral-vote.com)

President-elect Barack Obama named his full cabinet the fastest of any President in 32 years. It is a highly educated batch, with 80% having graduate degrees. Here is the list.

Position	Cabinet officer	Bachelors Degree	Graduate School
Attorney General	Eric Holder	Columbia Univ.	J.D. Columbia Law School
Secretary of Agriculture	former Gov. Tom Vilsack	Hamilton Coll.	J.D. Albany Law School
Secretary of Commerce Gov.	Bill Richardson	Tufts Univ.	M.A. Tufts Univ.
Secretary of Defense	Robert Gates	Coll. of William & Mary	Ph.D. Georgetown
Secretary of Education	Arne Duncan	Harvard Univ.	-
Secretary of Energy	Steven Chu	Univ. of Rochester	Ph.D. Univ. of California at Berkeley
Secretary of Health and Human Services	former Sen. Tom Daschle	South Dakota State Univ.	-
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development	Shaun Donovan	Harvard Univ.	M.A. Harvard Univ.
Secretary of Homeland Security	Gov. Janet Napolitano	Santa Clara Univ.	J.D. Univ. of Virginia Law School
Secretary of the Interior	Sen. Ken Salazar	Colorado Coll.	J.D. Univ. of Michigan Law School
Secretary of Labor	Hilda Solis	Cal State Polytechnic	M. Public Admin., USC
Secretary of State Sen.	Sen. Hillary Clinton	Wellesley College	J.D. Yale Univ. Law School
Secretary of Transportation	Rep. Ray LaHood	Bradley Univ.	-
Secretary of the Treasury	Timothy Geithner	Dartmouth Coll.	M.A. Johns Hopkins Univ.
Secretary of Veterans Affairs	Gen. Eric Shinseki	USMA West Point	M.A. Duke Univ.

During the campaign, some people were saying Obama would turn the country over to black people. He certainly didn't do that with the cabinet. Here is the ethnic/gender breakdown.

	Male	Female
White	7	2
Black	1	0
Latino	2	1
Asian	2	0