With all the live votes counted in McHenry County, Democrats have 51.5% of the ballots cast for president.

30,260 for the Democrats to 28,408 for the Republicans.

This tracks nicely with the early voting totals I reported in this article, in which 51.3% of the ballots cast were in the Democratic Party. (The figure had inched up over 52% by the time early voting ended.)

So, is this a result of Obama fever?

Barack Obama did beat Hillary Clinton by almost 2-1 (almost 63% to almost 36%).

Was the more fervent support of the Democratic presidential candidates the reason for more people taking Democratic Party ballots in this supposed Republican County?

If you were the Democrats, would you roll the dice and run people for every opening, countywide and in every county board district?

Or would you stick to just one—the county coroner’s office, with Republican turned Democrat Dave Bachmann, who started Bachmann funeral home, being the candidate?