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If Placer County voters had their druthers, the major presidential nominees in the November general election would be Republican John McCain and Democrat Hillary Clinton. Such were the preferences expressed in last week’s earliest-ever presidential primary election, which also served to allow Placerans to decide some intra-county issues.
Semi-final returns from County Clerk/Election Chief Jim McCauley’s
office showed that 56.7 percent of Placer’s 182,816 eligible voters
cast ballots on February 5. McCauley figures that when late ballots are
tallied in a week or two, there will have been a participation of close
to 67 percent. In presidential balloting, McCain nosed out Mitt Romney by a count of
38.67 percent to 37.7 percent. Mike Huckabee received 10.65 percent. Clinton got the Democratic nod in Placer with 47.86 percent while
Barack Obama finished second with 41.9 percent. John Edwards, who quit
the race before the election, was third with 7.56 percent. In local matters, Measure G, the $17.7 million Loomis school bond
measure, needed 55 percent of the vote for passage but was able to
garner only 51.91 percent. Rocklin voters supported development of the pristine Clover Valley area
by approving Measure H to uphold the city council’s approval of the
project. The vote was 52.85 percent yes, 47.15 percent no. Rocklin voters also approved the parcel tax for the city’s parks. The vote on Measure J was 59 percent to 41 percent.
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