It's Official: Columbus, WI Decides Presidential Outcome!

Columbus City Hall, founded 1892


For all of you who have long underestimated the electoral power of the small city of Columbus, it's time to eat your words. The results are in, and Obama apparently has us to thank for his decisive and historical victory.

According to the November 8, 2008 Columbus Journal, voting was up a whopping 0.86 percent over 2004. You read that right--nearly an entire percentage point!

In 2004, 2,566 people in this great metropolis voted, while this year, the turnout spiked to 2,588. That's twenty-two people, people!!

As for the split, here's how it went down:

Barack Hussein Obama: 1,542
John Sidney McCain III: 1,000
Mayor Nancy Osterhaus?: 46

This is even more impressive when you consider that the 2000 census of Columbus stood at 4,479. It is loosely estimated to be closer to 7,000 now. That puts our voter turnout somewhere between 37 to 58 percent.


We're already preparing the Columbus Middle School's backyard for Obama's Airforce One Heli, as it only stands to reason that he will be stopping by the thank us any day now.




Gov Doyle stops in for lunch last June.


For the record, reports of voter intimidation were greatly exaggerated.


Photo by Shannon Green