Parties and libraries

There is a Multnomah County library levy on this year's November ballot.

When a library levy was last on the ballot (November 2002), there was a decided split in who supported it. In the ten precincts that would be John Kerry's best two years later, 73.93% of voters supported the levy. In the ten precincts that would be Bush's best, 39.69% supported it.

Narrow the comparison to the best five precincts for each, and Kerry's precincts gave 75.88% of their votes for the levy while Bush's gave 36.20%.
(Kerry's precincts, in order: 4027, 3151, 3274, 4106, 3097, 4022, 2099, 1025, 4041, 3004.)

(Bush's precincts, in order: 5602, 0158, 5604, 5846, 0547, 5842, 5425, 5855, 5851, 5201.)