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Friday, November 9, 2012

How East Cobb Voted This Week

A precinct-by-precinct breakdown of the presidential election, compared to other county, statewide and national results.

Cobb County and Georgia overall stayed fairly consistent in party voting between the presidential elections of 2008 and 2012. Below is a breakdown of how you and other Georgians voted Tuesday to give the Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, the Peach State’s 16 electoral votes in his loss to incumbent Democrat Barack Obama.  Georgia 2012 (from the Huffington Post) Mitt Romney—2,070,221 (53.4%) Barack Obama—1,761,761 (45.4%) Other—45,056 (1.2%) Georgia 2008 (from the New York Times) John McCain—2,048,244 (52.2%) Barack Obama—1,843,452 (47%) Other—28,805 (.7%) Cobb County 2012 Mitt Romney—171,464 (55.49%) Barack Obama—132,526 (42.89%) Gary Johnson—4,999 (1.62%) Registered voters—415,314 Ballots cast—310,…

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Wendy Parker

10:01 am on Friday, November 9, 2012

ZIP code 30066 is Northeast Cobb Patch. Here's the link to the precinct results there: http://northeastcobb.patch.com/articles/how-cobb-georgia-voted-in-2012-presidential-election-352c9e8e   more ›

Monday, October 22, 2012

Charter School Amendment Forum at Lassiter

Cobb school superintendent Michael Hinojosa and State Rep. Ed Setzler will appear at a PTSA-sponsored event next Monday.

Lassiter High School will be the venue next week for a public forum on HR 1162, a proposed charter school amendment to the Georgia Constitution that appears on the Nov. 6 general election ballot. The Lassiter PTSA and the Mountain View Elementary School PTA are sponsoring the forum, which begins next Monday, Oct. 29, at 7:30 p.m. in the Lassiter Theater. Lassiter is located at 2601 Shallowford Road in Northeast Cobb.  State Rep. Ed Setzler (R-North Cobb), the head of the Cobb legislative delegation, will speak in favor of the amendment. It would allow the Georgia Department of Education to create a committee to approve charter school applications without the authorization of local school boards. Michael Hinojosa, the Cobb County School …

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