17. Finally and most importantly, over 55 million Americans voted for the candidate dubbed "The #1 Liberal in the Senate." That's more than the total number of voters who voted for either Reagan, Bush I, Clinton or Gore. Again, more people voted for Kerry than Reagan. If the media are looking for a trend it should be this -- that so many Americans were, for the first time since Kennedy, willing to vote for an out-and-out liberal.
As usual, Michael Moore is completely wrong. It is fallacious to assume that because the vote total for John Kerry was 55 million, that those people were voting FOR John Kerry. Exit poll data said that only about 57% of those who pulled the Kerry lever were actually FOR Kerry. About 90% of people who pulled the lever for Bush voted FOR Bush. So Moore should only use a vote total FOR Kerry of 0.57*55 million, which is 31.4 million, NOT 55 million. 31.4 million is a pathetically low number, and is more in line with what one would expect for a Massachussetts liberal. Take, however, Bush's 90% FOR rating: 0.9*59 million: still a very high 53.1 million.
People actually voting FOR the candidate:
BUSH: 53.1 million
KERRY: 31.4 million
This is the real story. It was an absolute blow-out of historical proportions when you look at people voting FOR the candidate!
I should point out that the voting FOR meant they actually liked the candidate, and that those who pulled the lever for one candidate, but weren't FOR the candidate voted more against the other candidate.