Hendersonville - Precinct breakdowns would be helpful

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To The Editor: The Times-News headline roared "Obama sweeps N.C."

And indeed he did, but there were few specifics of how the mountain counties voted or even how Henderson County itself voted.
There was no breakdown of the precincts in Henderson County, which is always of interest to many of its citizens.

I guess everyone just assumes because Henderson County has many retirees, and seniors usually are "Over-the-Hillaries," that Clinton made a grand sweep of our county. But six local precincts were, in fact, part of the Obama N.C. sweep.

Therefore, there must have been some "Oldbamas" in all three Hendersonville precincts and in the Laurel Park and Long John Mountain precincts, because those five precincts went to Barack Obama.
I am sure that all the folks at Obama Headquarters who worked so hard for him would be delighted for people to know that their hard work paid off for their candidate.
Out in the county, the sixth and last one that went to Obama was the Brickton precinct.
Election results are always interesting in detail and, thank you, Board of Elections, for making available the precinct results.

Linda Miller
Hendersonville

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