Well, the results are in, and we’re not talking about presidential-style results. We’re talking about something way more important. You can finally see the winners of our Best of the Chippewa Valley 2008 reader poll! These are the people, places, things, and ideas that you voted as best/worst/favorite in all things Chippewa Valley-ish.

It’s interesting to see what the Chippewa Valley likes and dislikes. But remember, the whole concept of “winning” anything in this poll is beside the point. The 2008 Best Of results should serve as a kind of doorway to countless places, people, and ideas you may have never heard of before – this is your chance to try something new.

If you participated in the voting last September and read the many comments, you probably picked up on criticism of voters’ ability to not only vote “Yay” for something but also “Boo” for something – which affected the rankings in real time and caused a lot of back-and-forth polling wars.

The vast majority of the voting in this year’s poll simply consisted of people clicking “Yay” for the items they liked the best. But there was enough “Boo” voting to cause problems. So for the final tabulations, we removed all the negative “Boo” votes and only counted your positive “Yay” votes.

Go ahead and leave comments on the final rankings. Don’t hold back.