Ohio 2008 Place Map (City, Town, Village)

[minionofmidas]

Here's a map of the nine Marion County townships:



Given the following census2000 data set...

Pike 71k inhabitants, 56-32 white-black (or more correctly, non hispanic white only - non hispanic black only)
Washington 133k, 67-27
Lawrence 112k, 64-29 edit for error
Wayne 133k, 72-19
Center 167k, 52-41
Warren 94k, 73-22
Decatur 25k, 95-1
Perry 93k, 93-2
Franklin 32k, 96-1...

Center township includes the centre of Indianapolis but rests somewhat to the south of where a perfectly central township would be, but that blue color on the map is very hard to believe. Especially as Obama also won the county 64-35.

[minionofmidas]

Having located precinct maps and results, by my (somewhat errorprone) count Obama won Center Township 80.8%-18.5%. Ahem. John McCain won two precincts in the southeast, 17-004 and CO-002. 23-002 on the northern perimeter was unanimous in its support for the democratic candidate.

[minionofmidas]

Decatur and Franklin certainly are wholly suburban in character. Note the lower populations, the road grid (well, not on this map).