2004 AND 2008 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION RESULTS BY STATE
Posted on 11/06/2008 10:52:39 AM PST by Jeff Head
On November 4, 2008, God answered the prayers of millions regarding the American people being touched and persuaded to not elect Barack Hussein Obama.
...and the answer was no.
We conservatives have a lot of work to do, but now there is nothing for it but to hitch up our trousers and go to it. We must continiue to work, educate, stay prepared, and to pray, even as so many eloquently and spiritually did leading up to this election. And we must continue to work as as so many did so hard throughout the election. We must continue to do these things for our children and grandchildren, and we must never lose hope or faith.
Barack Hussein Obama's vistory was not a near thing. No one can say it was stolen...even if a few hundred thousand votes likely were...which is a travesty. But the win was much larger than that. It was not a Reagan style blow out, but it was very convincing. The American people have chosen and they have done so by a significant majority and a large electoral vote.
There were many reasons for that choice, not the least of which is the huge numbers of people who are already hooked on the public largess and who are entangled and emshed in its binding chords to vote for whomever promises them more.
Obama promised more of the public largess to these people and it is likely that their numbers will grow under his administration.
In addition, the DNC, the Obama campaign, and the complicit MSM, framed the election around what I consider a lie that Bush was "bad" and we needed to change away from anything remotely similar to him. Millions of people bought into this and far, far too many Republicans were distnacing themselves from BUsh, rather than defenind him. While Bush has made some mistakes, some of them significant, in general his administration has not been as terrible as it has been made out to be at all.
We have not been attacked again. No spin can change that fact. George BUsh has defended America and done a very credible job of doing so and taking the fight to our terrorist enemies who are hiding in holes.
In addition, 40-60 million people who have never tasted freedom now do, and in a part of the world where they can be our allies and bring a watershed change for the better where it is most needed.
Finally, up until this housing and credit crisis, which has been severe, and which is a direct result of democratic initiatives, our economy under Bush has soared.
But the mindless craving for change, institued by and egged ob by the DNC and the MSM, which has produced this vote, IMHO, may lead to unimaginable terror here at home...I pray not.
Millions more voted for Obama simply because he was black. And not just liberal or black Americans. Millions of heretofore conservative leaning people felt this was some kind of historic duty and the result certainly is historic and despite his horrible ideology, does historically represent a watershed occurrence which in and of itself may well say good things about our nation and where we have come on race...but history may well mark their choice as a terrible one...again,
I pray we avoid the worst horrors of his brand of Marxism, but it looks likely that we will live with it for the next four to eight years and the terrible consequences it will bring.
I must say in sttaing this that I will not be like the hatefilled Democrats and hope for ill on my country so that my political ideology can be advanced. That kind of thinking is a cul-de-sac which leads nowhere but down. I honestly hope America prospers and that OBama will institute poilicies which will proposer her and defend her. If he will, I will support him in so doing.
My fear is that he will not, and in those areas, I will oppose him and speak out and try to orgnaize others to do so through reasoned dialog and the lawful process as long as it remains open to us as free American citizens to do so.
Having said all of that, there are a couple of reasons and glimmers for hope in the election.
First, Democrats were kept from a 60 seat, filibuster proof senate. The Republicans, if they have the courage and the will, can hold up the worst legislation and we need to encourage them with all of our strength to do so.
Second, and IMHO, even more importantly, it seems that all of the Bans on Gay Marriage will pass in the three states they were up for vote as constitutional amendments. This will be critical for the future of our children and grandchildren and for the sanctity of marriage and the marriage ceremonies conducted in our churches. God in Heaven be thanks for that. It gives us hope in avoiding a complete moral breakdown
In the midst of continuing to work hard for the conservative and all-American principles of liberty, protection of life, self reliance, fiscal responsibility, the free market, faith in God, fundamental moral values, strong defense, energy independence, and protecting our borders, I pray for our nation, and pledge myself within my own sphere of influence to continue to work for her welfare.
My prayer to God in Heaven is that we shall all do the same wherever and whenever we can, and that God, at some future date, will recognize and bless these efforts and our sincere pleas to Him, and bless us to turn things back around.
We most probably are going to see very difficult and trying times before that happens and we will all have to be valiant, courageous, virtuous, and most of all, faithful to Him and to the foundational principle He has established liberty upon for it to happen.
At the same time, we should and must support our nation. Pray for its leaders, educate Obama through the legal political process, support him where we can and oppose him where we must.
When the opportunity for reversal of liberal, socialistic policies comes, we must be prepared....because as surely as night follows day, I believe with all my heart that that change will come if we work hard and are faithful to God and the principles our liberty is based upon.
Phoenix, AZ, Salt Lake City, UT (both over a million), Oklahaoma City, Mobile, AL, Boise, ID, Tulsa, OK, Huntsville, AL, Amarillo, TX, Wichita, KS, and others in addition to Ft. Worth, TX.
I agree that the immigration policy and its results amounts to an attack. But I am talking about Islamic terror specifically which everyone expected more of...and the Bush policies have prempted and prevented that.
I feel embarrassed that NC went for Obama. It’s a shame my state has sold its values for hype.
It's sad that the national campaign was not more responsive in terms of material.
Not only did those counties gain moe voters within themselves...but in many cases they were able to make inroads in surrounding, suburban counties.
Florida, Iowa, and New Mexico shifted too.
I know. Michigan has proven that even when things go totally downhill and businesses leave left and right due to tax hikes and and unfriendly atmosphere for business, people still don’t see the connection. They just want more government programs. Just the immediate results of Marxism won’t make the difference for 2010 or 2012. It would have to be a major terrorist attack or a similar drastic event. At this point, I’m going back to the self-reliance skills I learned when I was an aspiring hippie in my twenties.
...and let’s not forget Virginia! Who would have thunk it!
Virginia, Florida and Iowa were always a little soft.
But Indiana and North Carolina?
And while my Electoral College projections had Obama winning, I never would have thunk that Obama would win NC and IN.
I grew up in San Diego county (Chula Vista). The area from I-8 south has morphed to predominately hispanic and black neighborhoods. Perhaps as far north as state route 52. It is nothing like the area I called home in the 60's and 70's. It was apparent to me by 1999 that I had become demographically irrelevant. I'm happy with my new home in Idaho. Hopefully I'll be room temperature before the neighborhood turns bad again. Mira Mesa (north San Diego) was overcome between the time I moved there in 1983 and the time I moved out in Feb 2001. Drugs, gangs, graffiti and drive by shootings were becoming common. It was time to relocate.
I've personally observed CA DMV workers coaching a Spanish speaker through a written driver's test. Combine that with the recently enacted Motor Voter law and you had a situation ripe for stuffing the ballot box with illegal voters. The office might as well have been staffed by La Raza.
The school system has been so dumbed down that it was easy to dupe the ignorant.
Domestic Energy! It's the hanging slider ready to be whacked out of the park. It's also the only way to create massive amounts of jobs in a relatively short time.
It means drilling, mining, good-old-fashioned geological exploration, and improvements in cleaner gas / coal / nuclear technologies (not the global-warming nonsense that's sucking so much promising young scientific talent away from where it would do the most good, i.e. real, non-politicized science).
Then and only then, when a strong continuous energy base has been created to hold up the economy, we might pursue the exotic stuff like solar, hydrogen fuel cells, and fart-turbines powered by the Obambi-trons' "righteous wind at our backs" [/rant; that felt good].
On the lighter side, I just hit the gun shop and bought a tidy $150 in new ammo. My gun shop is a very large shop here in Alabama, and the parking lot WAS FULL. People were buying rifles, AR15s, pistols and ammo out the ying yang. The gun shop owner told me that ammo has been flying out the door and they were very short or out of lots of different types. I got the last AR15 ammo he had. We are off too the range again tomorrow. He said business was good before the election because the chosen one was looked too be the winner and since yesterday business has been brisk. He had sold nearly $5,000 worth of ammo yesterday afternoon and did not know how much today yet.
Phoenix, Oklahoma City, Tulsa, Wichita, and Jacksonville also went for McCain.
Ditto.
I also forgot to mention Lubbock, Chattanooga, and Knoxville.
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