[JessieHelmsJr]

Sweet Victory and Revenge!

[WoodstockCat]

• Garnered 7 million more popular votes than in 2000 - more than twice the amount that President Clinton increased his vote between 1992 and 1996.

my favorite..aimed right at the left and their "most popular President ever" bilge..

[mattdono]

Bump for reference.

[Rummyfan]

Great rundown of the stats but .....

Mr President, please fire Norman Mineta!!!

[StJacques]

". . . Becomes the first presidential candidate to win more than 50% of the popular vote since 1988. . . ."

I wonder if the Democrats have sat down and asked themselves what it means that no Democrat has been elected President of the United States with a clear majority of the popular vote since 1976? Four times a Republican candidate has won 50%+ of the popular vote since Carter; Reagan in 1984 and 1986, George H. W. Bush in 1988, and George W. Bush in 2004.

Are there any Democrats who think that this statistic is meaningful?

[chs68]

"the first Republican President to be re-elected with House and Senate majorities since 1924."

To be precise about it, the President who was elected in 1924 was Calvin Coolidge.

Coolidge was not really "re-elected" President in 1924.

He had been elected Vice President in 1920, and became President when President Harding died in 1923.

[rwfromkansas]

bump

[mrs9x]

Also, another piece of data that shatters the myth that undecideds go 2-1 for the challenger in Presidential races...Dowd's numbers showed a 51-48 in favor of Bush for undecideds.

[kesg]

I'm loving this...

[GeorgeW23225]

I know that this was written by Matthew Dowd yesterday, so some information is already outdated. Votes are still being counted in many States (absentee) and as of today, the President has nearly, 59,100,000 votes. Also, here is an interesting fact. When the MSM and the liberals tell you that we have a "divided" nation, tell them that THEY are absolutely, positively WRONG!! How could we be divded, when 83%, YES....83% of counties in the United States voted to re-elect President Bush?? An amazing statistic, isn't it?? PASS THE WORD!!

[OPS4]

Michael Moore will have to Greyhound.
Ops4 God BLess America!

[Southack]

"The Democrats’ 4-point advantage in 2000 evaporated, with Republicans and Democrats both at 37% of the electorate in 2004."

The Democrats' have progressively lost voter participation percentage points in each successive Presidential election. There was a time back in the 1930's where there were more than 70% of American voters registered as Democrats. Now they turn out a mere 37% (remember that figure when checking poll # internals in 2006), finally matched by Republicans.

Moreover, the *new* voters in this election will see decidedly different behavior in their futures based upon who they voted for.

Americans love winners, after all, so the new voters who voted Republican in 2004 will be more motivated to vote Republican in future elections.

The opposite is the case for the new voters who went for the losing Democratic Party.