Posted on 11/10/2008 2:28:52 PM PST by My Favorite Headache
If I read about the "landslide" election once more I will be forced to hurl bile. The raw data...the true numbers speak what happened in this election.
Obama won by: 204,577 in FL 206,770 in OH 202,110 in VA 13,993 in NC 25,836 in IN 119,896 in NV 140,732 in IA
That comes out to 913,914 votes. So yes...people are claiming McCain was crushed by 7 million votes but in all reality it was 913,914 votes in total that Obama needed at the end of the day. Turn out was lower than 2004 for the GOP...about 20% less. We pretty much know the reasons why Conservatives stayed home and fence sitting moderates went for "Change", but if we put a solid Conservative next time on the ticket we can surely pass up 913,914 make up voters in 4 years. These were the states that mattered the entire time.
We had good turn out in traditionally heavy red counties...if we are to be serious about reversing course in 2010 with the mid-terms...then focusing on a million voters spread across these states is not asking much at all if you really think about it.
I think it is the boogie man, each year they are going to turn out record numbers of young voters, each year it doesn't happen.
God i LOVE your optimism! :)
The news stated that both parties had registered more voters and would have almost double the turnout of 2004...so what happened? All stayed home? No I will never believe that...it’s screwy at best.
Woodshed? Democracy? What?
Huh?
Who said that?!? Citation, please.
The first article from WI talks of 50% more turnout expected, but fell short. The other articles are more closely associated with what happened.
50% is not 100%.
Perhaps you heard comparisons to off-year election turnout? That happened in many places.
That may be it...
You know we lost VA over 12,000 votes and NC by over 22,000..that seems odd to me because NC is usually a red state.
No, it doesn't.
It says that there were 50% more absentee ballots in 2008 than 2004.
There is another set of numbers on FR that don’t match these.
Remember that John Edwards was from North Carolina.
And note that Senator Dole lost her seat this year, too.
Well I think they just meant the popular votes in the U.S in general which is Obama-65,937,955 and McCain-57,756,059
According to this, its millions, but if you just go on the battleground states then its thousands.
source:http://elections.foxnews.com/states_map/index.html
Yes I am aware of that, but that isn’t the whole state...it is still full of conservatives. The college crowd may have put O over, as there are a lot of colleges in NC...
Another thread says it was only 6900+ loss in NC>.which brings me to the Army in Fayetteville who have lots of guys/gals overseas,,,,did their votes get counted, and in VA did military votes count?
Senate seats are statewide votes since ratification of the 17th Amendment.
...it is still full of conservatives.
Nope.
There are many conservatives in NC, but it's not "full" of them anymore.
The college crowd may have put O over, as there are a lot of colleges in NC...
There are many blacks in NC--more than 1/5 of NC's population is black. With the black vote nearly unanimous for Sen. Obama, that had a big effect.
But yes, the young (including college) vote was very strong for Obama in NC, too.
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