Election 2012: Was Tinley Park an Obama or Romney Town?
The president captured his home state in Tuesday's election, but how did he fare in the Cook County precincts that cover the village?
Although he only won 13 out of 35 Cook County voting precincts that cover the village, President Barack Obama was still the choice of the majority of Tinley Park voters in Tuesday's election, according to data released Wednesday from the county clerk's office. READ: The Race for President—How Illinois Voted The re-elected president had 12,091 votes compared to Republican challenger Mitt Romney's 11,149, according to the numbers reported by the Cook County Clerk's Office. Yet Romney won the majority of the precincts that cover Tinley Park in Orland, Bremen and Rich townships. The margins of victory at those precincts, however, were very close, sometimes with only a gap of a handful of votes. In fact, only one precinct in Tinley—Rich …
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Walt Hines
7:18 am on Tuesday, November 13, 2012
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