FREEFREE Nov. 8 Your weekly paper - Promoting the power of community ▪ Independently owned and operated since 2003 November 03 - 09, 2016 INSIDE this issue A look at Daniel Island’s PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION HISTORY Kate Jerome talks TEDx 02 FILE PHOTO Voters line up at the Daniel Island School to cast their ballots in the 2012 Presidential Election Roundabout Update 20-21 Berkeley County precincts gear up for ‘biggest turnout ever’ in 2016 ELIZABETH BUSH nation’s next Commander in Chief. vote. Also of note in the year 2004, ac- their votes, beating relative newcomer
[email protected] Democrat Al Gore was the top vote cording to Berkeley County Elections Barack Obama – who went on to win getter on the Cainhoy Peninsula then, and Voter Registration Director Adam the nationwide vote that year to be- This year will mark the fifth time beating out Republican George W. Hammons, was Daniel Island’s whop- come America’s first African American that voters in Daniel Island’s modern Bush by a mere 194 votes. ping 86 percent voter turnout rate. President. Obama did win with Cain- day community have left their mark Four years later, Bush was in the “That was one of the highest in the hoy voters in 2008, scoring 687 votes on a Presidential election. It’s been contest again – this time against county based on total turnout for the to McCain’s 129. Halloween Decorating 16 years since the island town first Democrat John Kerry. Cainhoy voters year in Berkeley County,” he said. In 2012, Daniel Island residents Contest Winners entered Berkeley County elections as a cast the majority of their Presidential In 2008, Daniel Island voters re- were split into two precincts, Daniel participating precinct.