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To: Dale Baker who wrote (207767)

11/7/2012 1:25:03 PM

From: John Koligman

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Interesting tidbit....

Obama Wins 8 of the Nation’s 10 Wealthiest Counties

Published: Wednesday, 7 Nov 2012 | 10:35 AM ET

By: Paul Toscano
Producer, CNBC.com

In an election that often focused on debates about class warfare, President Barack Obama was favored over multimillionaire businessman Mitt Romney in eight of the nation’s 10 wealthiest counties.

And his margin of victory in all eight counties was greater than that of the national vote, in which Obama was leading by 50 percent to 48 percent with 97 percent of precincts reporting.

The findings are based on a CNBC.com analysis of Census Bureau numbers on average annual household income from 2006-2011 and results from Tuesday’s elections.

The 10 richest counties accounted for 1,337,700 votes, or about 1.1 percent of the national popular vote.

In the richest, Massachusetts’ Nantucket County, where average annual household income is over $137,000, Obama won by 63 percent to Romney’s 36 percent with all precincts reporting. The richest county in Romney’s home state is also where, just prior to accepting the Republican nomination, the former Massachusetts governor held a $75,000-per-person dinner fundraiser.

In none of the richest counties was the margin of victory wider than in California’s Marin County, just north of San Francisco, where the president won by 74 percent to 23 percent, with all precincts reporting. In Marin, the average annual household income is $128,544.

The two richest counties where Romney won were in New Jersey: adjacent Hunterdon and Morris counties in the northern part of the state. Romney won in Morris by 55 percent to 44 percent and in Hunterdon by 59 percent to 40 percent. However, Somerset County, which abuts Hunterdon and Morris, went to Obama by 53 percent to 47 percent.

—By CNBC's Paul Toscano

To: Dale Baker who wrote (207767)

11/7/2012 1:38:00 PM

From: cnyndwllr

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Angry old men can be a real danger. This was posted and I take the tone seriously. This is someone who UncleWest knows. Note the number of recommendations but, more importantly, note the no nonsense tone of the email which was sent to a confidante. Ed

To: LindyBill who wrote (519946)	11/7/2012 4:40:23 AM
From: unclewest	20 Recommendations Read Replies (2) of 520143

Just received via Email from a close career SF friend who spent 26 years in SF. This man is well known for his exceptionally clear problem identification and solutions oriented thinking. When he writes about UW in the last sentence he means Unconventional Warfare. uw "Disappointment is incredibly weak to describe how I feel. This is a betrayal by the beneficiaries ( the American people) of the Divinely inspired dream of our founding Fathers. This is a betrayal of the freedom, liberty, and independence that generations of Americans have sacrificed, bled and died for. The current generations of people residing in this Nation have chosen weakness, servitude, dependence, mediocrity, and socialism over freedom of choice, liberty, independence and entrepreneurial spirit and endeavor. . in my wildest days I never thought I would see this happen in the United States of America. It is very difficult to understand how America, founded on Divinely inspired freedom, liberty and a representative republic just 200 years ago, can have fallen into socialism just 65 years after the “greatest generation” fought, bled, died, and won freedom from the tyranny of Nazi Germany (6 million Jews murderer) and Imperial Japan. Reagan produced the greatest growth of the American dream through military strength, exceptional American economic growth through trickledown economics before the Clinton administration killed it (although they claimed its success). What a rebuke of our fathers and mothers who bled for freedom and the reality of American exceptionalism. The acceleration of the downfall of the Divinely inspired American exceptionalism exceeds even the 1000 years of the decline of the Roman empire. Unfortunately many of us will live to see the devastation to be reeked on our children and their children by Obama narcissism/socialism/Marxism/Islamism. Obama may not be the anti-Christ, but he is his agent. Through Divine providence, we may survive, but the price will be high… the Tribulation may not be too far in the future… I fear that four more years of Obama arrogance, narcissism, Marxist/socialism and Islamic sponsorship may be unrecoverable without drastic consequences… I pray I am wrong… do not be surprised or distressed if I seem to be unresponsive in the future. I plan to monitor but rarely respond. I will be seeking proof that there is something worth an effort … UW may be all that is left for the future of America and our children."