Posted on 11/03/2004 10:05:49 AM PST by rdb3
(CNN) -- President Bush convincingly won the popular vote Tuesday thanks to strong backing from his party's conservative base, as well as increased support from Latino, urban, Jewish, Catholic and female voters, according to exit polls.
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"The president captured 43 percent of the urban vote, up 8 points from 2000. Reports of high turnout in several traditionally Democratic cities may have had less impact on the final result than some pundits anticipated."
Urban areas. Up EIGHT.
Suhweet!
"urban" support???? urban???? The blacks supported Bush in record numbers in 2004.
urban people are more likely to get blown up by a terrorist. Too bad more didn't figure this out. Some people have a death wish.
Indeed. According to CNN's figures, the national black vote was up to 11% -- certainly a victory in my book.
Something that struck me is that most of the minority voters who Florida who were alleged by the Dims to have been “disenfranchised” didn’t themselves believe it. While their “leaders” certainly hyped it, the people themselves weren’t upset about it because they knew it was a lie.
The Republican party is on the march.
Just as I said months ago during this campaign, when you look back at then-Governor Bush's performance first in getting elected in Texas, and then at his re-election numbers there, you could see a clear pattern for the trend that he would set first as President and then later when he earned his re-election to the White House.
For his gubernatorial re-election in 1998, then-Governor Bush roughly *doubled* his Hispanic and Black support compared to their 1994 levels.
Now we've seen similar large-scale improvements in the Black and Hispanic vote for President Bush's re-election.
Did you see Senator Kerry's concession speech in Boston today?!
There was hardly a Black face to be seen in the entire hall. Rev. Sharpton wasn't there. Rev Jesse Jackson wasn't there. Donna Brazille was no where to be seen. Harold Ford must have been hiding in the shadows because I couldn't see him, either.
Do you know what that means? It means that the inner-city leadership is re-evaluating Democrats.
President Bush just handed the Democrats their own electoral heads on a platter; large gains in Hispanics, Blacks, women, etc.
So if you see a liberal talking head in the next month or two, be sure to rib them by asking "Where was Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, and Donna Brazille while Senator Kerry was conceding national defeat for Democrats?"
Urban People AKA Blacks
Eight years of GW Bush will prove to an increasing number of minorities, that Republicans work to benefit them, over the long haul.
I couldn't figure out much about the methodology behind this data. In any case, I hope President Bush can try to find out what these voters are expecting and do what he can to satisfy their hopes. The push for property ownership among minorities has been spot-on, for example. I want to share this land with proud people who are rooted in it, not rootless and placated. It seems that the Democratic party's imagination failed to grasp this important difference.
The telling factor: About 56 percent of respondents said Kerry mostly says what "people want to hear," rather than what he believes.
It seems a lot of Americans have been facing reality lately. I respected the way President Bush didn't promise us a pot of gold at the end of a rainbow. He promised to defend us while we work for our own fortunes; he also said he wanted to let us keep a larger percentage of our earnings. I like the idea of privatized social security, for example. I also like the idea of larger retirement investment ceilings that permit me to shelter my income before the government even sees it. I'm sure others feel the same way: if the government stands aside, I can take better care of myself no matter who's in office.
Amen. Nobody will look after your affairs better'n you. 401k/pensions have become much more flexible, it's only logical SS follows.
The Dems what to tell people how to live, not let them live.
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