"What does this make the final %? 52/48, 53/47.....?"
The vote % is still Bush 51% Kerry 48% because, of course, Kerry has also been receiving votes (especially in CA where Kerry is taking a majority of the absentee votes).
This does not diminish the truly staggering amount of votes that Pres. Bush has received. Not only has he garnered 11 million more votes than in 2000, Pres. Bush has also broken Pres. Reagan's 1984 record by nearly 6 million votes!
quote: Bush has also broken Pres. Reagan's 1984 record by nearly 6 million votes!
6 million more than Ronald Reagan? That's disappointing to me because Reagan is and will always be my favorite president. How can this be? Reagan won by landslide, something like 40+ states in 1984, was it 48, 49 states?
And how can Bush have six millions more votes than Reagan and yet win only 31 states? It does not make much sense to me. I hope this does not diminish my all-time favorite president, RONALD REAGAN. I'm not very good with math.
"Pres. Bush has also broken Pres. Reagan's 1984 record by nearly 6 million votes!"
Yow, that means Kerry broke Reagan's record by 2.6 MM or so.
There are a lot more Americans today, then in Reagan's day and that means a lot more voters.
PresBush`s solid victory in 2004 and the GOP's Congressional pickups give the Republican Party a mandate to lead for at least the next two years. But Bush`s victory doesn't measure up to PresReagan's landslide victories of 1980 and 1984. What's great about about Bush getting 51%, is that it surpasses Clinton's 43% in 1992 and 49% in 1996. Clinton was a minority President, who was forced to play ball with Republicans. So far, Bush43 is wasting no time.
Do you know if anyone has adjusted the figures for population growth?
Did Kerry also break Reagan's record?
"What does this make the final %? 52/48, 53/47.....?"
The vote % is still Bush 51% Kerry 48% because, of course, Kerry has also been receiving votes (especially in CA where Kerry is taking a majority of the absentee votes).
This does not diminish the truly staggering amount of votes that Pres. Bush has received. Not only has he garnered 11 million more votes than in 2000, Pres. Bush has also broken Pres. Reagan's 1984 record by nearly 6 million votes!
But what does that do to the percentage? What percentage did Reagan win and what percentage did Bush win?
The sad thing is, Kerry also broke Reagan's record. Which means if we don't have someone so wonderful as Bush next time and someone so bad as Kerry from the other side - we could easily face a large defeat.