Denial By The Angry Left (The Point)

News Central ^ | Nov 15, 2004 | 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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