[calreaganfan]

Pres. Bush's lead over Kerry is now 3,011,000 votes. The lower Bush margin is largely due to CA where Kerry has gained a net of 212,000 votes in the counting of more than 2.5 million absentee votes. Kerry also picked up more than 100,000 net votes in NY State. Below is the current Bush/Kerry popular vote total by state. Including third parties, the national popular vote count has easily exceeded 122 million.

Pres. Bush Sen. Kerry

AL 1,176,394 693,933 AK 190,889 111,025 AZ 1,104,294 893,524 AR 573,182 470,230 CA 5,508,415 6,744,484 CO 1,101,255 1,001,732 CT 693,826 857,488 DE 171,660 200,152 FL 3,964,522 3,583,544 GA 1,914,254 1,366,149 HI 194,191 231,708 ID 409,235 181,098 IL 2,346,608 2,891,989 IN 1,479,438 969,011 IA 751,957 741,898 KS 736,456 434,993 KY 1,069,439 712,733 LA 1,102,169 820,299 ME 330,416 395,462 MD 1,024,703 1,334,493 MA 1,071,109 1,803,800 MI 2,313,746 2,479,183 MN 1,346,695 1,445,014 MS 672,650 445,608 MO 1,455,713 1,259,171 MT 266,063 173,726 NE 512,814 254,328 NV 418,690 397,190 NH 331,237 340,511 NJ 1,670,003 1,911,430 NM 376,958 370,930 NY 2,962,567 4,314,280 NC 1,961,166 1,525,849 ND 196,651 111,052 OH 2,858,727 2,739,952 OK 959,792 503,966 OR 866,831 943,163 PA 2,793,847 2,938,095 RI 169,046 259,760 SC 937,974 661,699 SD 232,584 149,244 TN 1,384,375 1,036,477 TX 4,526,917 2,832,704 UT 655,957 235,991 VT 121,180 184,067 VA 1,716,959 1,454,742 WA 1,304,894 1,510,201 DC 21,256 202,970 WV 423,550 326,541 WI 1,478,120 1,489,504 WY 167,629 70,776

62,019,003 59,007,869

Diff. Total

3,011,134 121,026,872

[Once-Ler]

62 million votes for Dubya and incredible voter turn out. Dubya has a mandate. Everybody knows this but the rats. The rats did everything they could to lie cheat and steal. They lost. The lost BIG TIME!

[CivilWarguy]

Remember how the day after the election some sleazoid leftist British newspaper (yes, I'm being redundant here) wondered "How can 59 miilion people be so dumb?" Now that Kerry's vote has reached 59 million, I see the answer to their question.

[ladyinred]

Music to my ears. No mandate though of course! LOL

[Allegra]

And still the libs cling to the "hope" that something will happen with the votes in Ohio to give the election to Kerry.

They really need to just get over it.

[calreaganfan]

For those of you who are downplaying Pres. Bush's record vote total, I suggest you compare 2004 to 1996. Just eight years ago, Bill Clinton received only 1% less of the popular vote than Pres. Bush, yet Pres. Bush has received 15 million more votes than Clinton in 1996!! That puts Pres. Bush's awesome accomplishment in perspective!

[solo gringo]

If Kerry had been elected and thank god he was not he would have been the first communist elected as president of our great nation.

[Ciexyz]

And the DU's somehow think they still can win by recounting OH!

[Libertina]

Uh oh... there will now be more gnashing of teeth by the liberals. Of course, that means dentists will start to see an increase in income, so all is not lost ;)

[William of Orange]

OH 2,858,727 2,739,952

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that's a difference of 118,775. This means a swing of 59,388 votes in Ohio would've meant president sKerry! /shudder

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And you can bet the DUmmies would've been screaming MANDATE MANDATE!

[William of Orange]

another worrisome trend, since the loonies took over the Democratic party they nominated McGovern (who was trounced in 72 by Nixon), Mondale (who did marginally better -percentagewise- than MCcGovern but was still humiliated), Dukakis who did a little better still and now sKerry who got within 60k Ohio votes of winning...

[ken21]

well, how could that be? we all know that pollsters are independents politically. (/s)

[AuH2ORepublican]

So Kerry is at 59,007,869?

I guess that the London newspaper that printed the November 3, 2004 headline "How Could 59 Million Americans Be So Stupid?" was correct after all. : )

[AuH2ORepublican]

I checked out the CA Secretary of State's site, and they have lower numbers for both Bush and Kerry. See http://vote2004.ss.ca.gov/Returns/pres/00.htm#cty

What's your source?

[AuH2ORepublican]

In RI, I also get lower numbers for Bush and Kerry: http://www.elections.ri.gov/2004GE/TopTicket.htm