Denial By The Angry Left (The Point)

News Central ^ | Nov 15, 2004 | Mark Hyman

[Angry Republican]

The Angry Left and its media partners are in total denial.

George Bush got more votes for president than anyone else. Ever. The GOP picked up seats in both the House and the Senate. And Washington's top Democrat and Obstructionist-in-Chief, Tom Daschle, now has weekends and weekdays free. Voters sent a message. But the Angry Left just ain't listening.

The liberal group Campaign for America's Future is seemingly ignorant that an election had even taken place. It issued a post-election press release based on a poll of 2,000 announcing "NEW POLL: NO MANDATE FOR BUSH." Just two days prior a nationwide poll of 114 million voters told a different story. Days after the election, Democratic Leadership Council President Bruce Reed wrote, "Millions of Americans voted against their own interest." Hello? Earth to liberals. You just don't get it. It's this very attitude of yours that the people are just too stupid to make decisions for themselves that has made your minority party…. an even smaller minority. It's time to climb aboard the reality train.

The Angry Left's media partners are also windsurfing in denial. Many of them are still in a dither.

In a scathing post-election editorial, the Philadelphia Daily News wrote "a four-million-vote margin of victory …[is not] an overwhelming mandate." Come again? Four million is equivalent to the populations of Delaware, Montana, Wyoming, Alaska and both Dakotas, combined.

Slate.com's Jane Smiley chalked up Bush's victory to stupid voters in a column titled "The unteachable ignorance of red states."

The Angry Left, quick to claim there is no Bush mandate must have forgotten that its dean of Democratic politics, Bill Clinton, never once broke the 50 percent barrier in his two elections, garnering only 43 percent in 1992 and 49 percent in '96 and losing control of both Houses of Congress along the way. Yet, in their eyes, Bubba had a mandate. Despite Democratic losses, the Angry Left argues that it is Bush and not the Democrats who must compromise.

The future for moderate Democrats is very bleak and will only worsen if they fail to reclaim their party from the clutches of the Angry Left. Mainstream America will not vote for a party run by Hollywood liberals, greedy trial lawyers and clueless academia. Moderate Democrats know this. The problem is the Angry Left has hijacked their party and party leaders are in denial that they even have a problem.

And that's the Point.

I'm Mark Hyman.

[FreeKeys]

They need to be louder and meaner next time (heh, heh)? I most emphatically agree! See: "Healings, Whoa-whoa-whoa, Healings" at http://snipurl.com/antn

[Cyclopean Squid]

"Show 'em the TIME Magazine cover "Mandate for Change" cover when Clinton won w/ 49%!!! "

Wasn't that cover from '92 when the Toon garnered only 43%? He really should have found a Cabinet position for Perot--at least for the 1st term.

[Nick Danger]

Washington's top Democrat and Obstructionist-in-Chief, Tom Daschle, now has weekends and weekdays free.

This is a bigger deal for the Daschles than it looks. Daschle and his wife had the same kind of deal going that Bill and Hillary did in Arkansas, when he was Governor and she was the lawyer you hired for a very high price if you wanted certain things to happpen.

Linda Daschle has been making literally millions in DC as a lobbyist while her hubby was in a position to make magic happen during the, umm, lawmaking process.

Not that there's anything wrong with that.

Except that her worth as a lobbyist just took a big dive. And his isn't going to be that much... people aren't that interested in ex-Democratic movers and shakers anymore, because it's obvious the Democrats aren't going to be back in the majority for a long time.

[Whitehawk]

Republican and proud of it. But, do we really want the DemoCommie Party to self-destruct? Think what it might mean to have a one party system. Crazy as it sounds, we need competition to prevent excesses from either side. The Founders understood that.

[Wolfstar]

Let's see, as of Monday, Nov. 15, at 8:00pm ET, President Bush got 60,502,282 votes. That's about a million more than the population of Great Britain. About a million more than the population of France. Almost double the population of Canada. Only 20 million shy of the total population of Germany.

It is probably the largest vote total for any democratically elected leader of a country in world history.

President Bush won 31 states to Kerry's 21. He added to Republican majorities in both the House and Senate, as well as in governorships.

If such a sweeping, historic victory doesn't qualify as a mandate, they'll have to redefine the term.

[Angry Republican]

Agreed.

[StACase]

The Democrats don't get it. Compared to the 2000 election, President Bush increased his percentage of the total vote in 47 of the 50 States. In Hawaii he increased it by a whopping 7.8%. Taken all together, it was a solid win. Here's a table to illustrate the point. The data for the table was taken from the 2000 certified results and the CNN website.

State	2000	2004	Change	State	2000	2004	Change
HI	37.5%	45.3%	7.8%	NM	47.8%	50.0%	2.2%
RI	31.9%	38.9%	7.0%	MN	45.5%	47.6%	2.1%
NJ	40.3%	46.5%	6.2%	PA	46.4%	48.6%	2.1%
AL	56.5%	62.5%	6.0%	IL	42.6%	44.7%	2.1%
TN	51.2%	56.8%	5.7%	MS	57.6%	59.6%	2.0%
CT	38.4%	44.0%	5.6%	TX	59.3%	61.2%	1.9%
OK	60.3%	65.6%	5.3%	IA	48.3%	50.1%	1.8%
NY	35.2%	40.5%	5.3%	WI	47.6%	49.4%	1.7%
MA	32.5%	37.0%	4.4%	MI	46.1%	47.8%	1.7%
NE	62.2%	66.6%	4.4%	VA	52.5%	54.0%	1.5%
WV	51.9%	56.1%	4.2%	CO	50.8%	52.2%	1.4%
LA	52.6%	56.8%	4.2%	ID	67.2%	68.5%	1.3%
KS	58.0%	62.2%	4.1%	SC	56.9%	58.0%	1.2%
UT	67.2%	71.1%	3.9%	ME	44.0%	45.0%	1.0%
AZ	51.0%	54.9%	3.9%	OH	50.0%	51.0%	1.0%
DE	41.9%	45.8%	3.9%	WA	44.6%	45.5%	1.0%
IN	56.6%	60.1%	3.4%	OR	46.6%	47.6%	0.9%
FL	48.8%	52.1%	3.3%	NH	48.2%	49.0%	0.8%
KY	56.4%	59.5%	3.2%	NV	49.8%	50.5%	0.7%
GA	55.0%	58.1%	3.1%	MT	58.4%	59.1%	0.6%
MD	40.2%	43.3%	3.1%	NC	56.0%	56.1%	0.1%
AR	51.3%	54.3%	3.0%	WY	69.2%	69.0%	-0.2%
AK	58.8%	61.8%	3.0%	SD	60.3%	59.9%	-0.4%
MO	50.4%	53.4%	3.0%	DC	9.0%	8.5%	-0.5%
CA	41.7%	44.3%	2.6%	VT	40.8%	38.9%	-1.9%
ND	60.7%	62.9%	2.2%	Totals	47.9%	51.0%	3.1%

[M Kehoe]

I'm Mark Hyman. And I approved this message.

I wonder if his brother's name is Buster Hyman?

5.56mm

[Newtoidaho]

Kerry only got 19 states and the D of C.

[FreeKeys]

"But, do we really want the DemoCommie Party to self-destruct? Think what it might mean to have a one party system. Crazy as it sounds, we need competition to prevent excesses from either side. The Founders understood that."

YES. Let the Constitution Party, the Libertarian Party or the Conservative Party take up the slack. It's about damned time THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA had ONLY parties who agreed about the need for, and sanctity of, private property. It way past time to relegate communalism, communism and tribalism to the history books where they belong.

[spodefly]

BTTT

[ConservativeMan55]

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