Media still won't call Iowa or New Mexico for Bush, but...

11/03/2004 | Fatalis

[Fatalis]

Take CNN (please!):

Iowa

Bush (Incumbent): 743,621 50%
Kerry: 730,067 49%

That's about 13,000 votes of 774,000, for a 1.7% margin for Bush.

New Mexico:

Bush(Incumbent) 363,369 50%
Kerry: 351,070 49%

That's about 12,000 votes out of 714,000, for a 1.6% margin for Bush.

But...

New Hampshire

Kerry: 340,019 50%
Bush(Incumbent): 330,848 49%

That's a 9,000 vote margin of about 671,000 votes between them, for a 1.3% margin for Kerry.

Wisconsin

Kerry:1,490,101 50%
Bush (Incumbent): 1,477,405 49%

That's about 13,000 votes out of almost 3 million, or a 0.4% margin for Kerry.

So President Bush has bigger margins in Iowa in New Mexico than Kerry has in Wisconsin and New Hampshire, yet Kerry gets the calls while he stalls on nis concession speech.

[Orlando]

I agree with you 100%

[Colofornian]

The Dims have thrown up every frickin' statistic about 2000 every time Bush tries to do something. We need to have every vote counted so we see a continuous stream of Red (should be Blue) across the South, Lower Midwest, Southwest and Mountain states. Mandate, mandate, mandate.

If you cut off about 1/3rd to 40% of the counties adjacent to major bodies of water (Pacific Ocean, Atlantic Ocean, Great Lakes) and those adjacent to the Mexican Border, you wouldn't have much Democratic blue left.

It's like if you took a picture of America; cropped it off at the left edge, left bottom edge, central top edge, and the upper right edge, you'd have a braille message that even the blind media could read:

MANDATE! MANDATE! MANDATE!

[scannell]

Just think, With New Hampshire, Bush could have won without Ohio

[jellybean]

I actully think Wisconsin IS a red state.

I live in WI and watched the results all night long. I noticed at about 1:00 that Dane County (Madison) had stopped sending in their results with 93% of their precincts reporting. When the difference between Bush and Kerry got down to 5,000 votes, all of a sudden another 6% of the precincts in Dane County reported and the vote changed to a difference of 20,000 votes. They still held back 1%!! I think they were still manufacturing votes and waiting to see how many they needed. I haven't checked the map today...they may still be stuffing ballots boxes while waiting for the absentee ballots to be counted.

[capitan_refugio]

Great minds think alike.

[petertare]

Just called the Iowa Secr of State and complained about the bananna republic operation. Must be too many voter machines made by Halliburton slowing the vote total. Yeas, the Prez is leading by about 13.000 with approx 13050 absentee, etc votes to be counted. Kerry would have to win something like 98% of those remaining.

Of course, the Sec of State here is mug shot Chet (sneaky) Culver, Dem.