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Or maybe the "rural Bush voters" who appear to have "backed a gay-friendly black judge"?
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Because the only people who could possibly vote for Bush are racist homophobes?
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I'll agree that the word "impossible" was not the most suitable one in connection with the 98 and 7% turnouts, but it does sound a bit like Saddam Hussein's poll results, doesn't it? "Highly unlikely" is probably better.
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The only way to know is to look at the past voting records of the regions. If 7% turnout is not uncommon than it does not show anything other than a huge number of that voting region simply do not care.
98% could sound like a rediculously large number, but as I said they were all members of the same evangelical churge as stated in the post. If the pastor managed to convince the church of the importance of voting in the election, it could very well be reasonable. Churches very often convince people to give up entire weekends for charity purposes, you think it's so difficult to convince the people to give up 10min of their time to vote for a president?