affa has made the remark in the past that the presidential vote has no reason to outperform the delegate vote. I have check this in Jefferson County.
Here is the 2008 data:
The undervote count is proportional to the presidential vote count. Correlation above 99%. Quite intuitive, right?
So...
Does not look unusual. Remember typically 2 machines per site (in case of breakdown I suppose), even in the low count ones.
Last freebie. From now, it is $62/ hour ;)
Remember that chart?
Thanks to The Man, we now have the data for Jefferson County in 2008. And it looks like this:
I suppose that, over only 4 years, the vast majority of voters are the same people using an identically formatted ballot.
The difference is stunning.
Given that, when...
Good point. Here we go:
30s commercial CPM
2003 24.6
2004 27.7
2005 26.0
2006 28.1
2007 34.5
2008 27.7
2009 30.3
2010 26.8
2011 28.0
2012 32.1
Apparently, Romney's $ bought him much, much more media coverage than McCain.
Sources
The very good Washington Post's Campaign Finance Explorer:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/politics/campaign-finance/
The New York Times' Money Race here:
http://elections.nytimes.com/2012/campaign-finance#canda=barack-obama&candb=mitt-romney
And CNN Election Center...
First result from Marion County (=Indianapolis)
PRESIDENT OF THE U.S.
Vote For 1
(WITH 29 OF 600 PRECINCTS COUNTED 4.83%)
NEWT GINGRICH . . . . . . . . . 164 5.92
RON PAUL. . . . . . . . . . . 468 16.91...