[WardFive] Romney Got Crushed in D.C., Spare Parts of Wards 2 and 3: DCist

 

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Romney Got Crushed in D.C., Spare Parts of Wards 2 and 3

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It's safe to say that Republican presidential challenger Mitt Romney didn't fare too well in D.C. All told, he received just over seven percent of the city's votes.

Of course, while he did especially poorly in some parts of town—he received three votes in Precinct 122 at Ballou High School, or 0.27 percent of the vote—there were places in the city where he didn't do all too badly, all told. To no one's surprise, those precincts were in parts of wards 2 and 3, including Georgetown, Spring Valley, the Palisades, and the West End. (The was one precinct in Ward 6, too.) The Georgetown Metropolitan broke down the numbers for us:

Precinct 12: 37.8% to Romney - Observatory/Normanstone
Precinct 9: 36.3% - Spring Valley
Precinct 6: 28.4% - West Georgetown
Precinct 130: 28.4% - Within a couple blocks of the Capitol
Precinct 5: 25.8% - East Georgetown
Precinct 7: 25.7% - MacArthur/Foxhall
Precinct 8: 25.0% - Palisades
Precinct 10: 22.9% - Wesley Heights
Precinct 4: 22.7% - West End
Precinct 3: 21.7% - West Foggy Bottom

As for Libertarian Party presidential hopeful Gary Johnson, his best showing was his 37 votes (1.5 percent) at Precinct 15 on 16th and Church streets NW, while Jill Stein wrangled 78 votes (2.4 percent) at Precinct 25 in Adams Morgan. There was only one polling place—in Fort Dupont—where Johnson got more votes than Romney.