Posted on 11/05/2008 2:40:41 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
This morning, after having absorbed the substantial victory of Barack Obama, I noticed a couple of interesting items in the data. Barack Obama certainly won this race, but he won it with just a little more votes than George Bush won in his re-election bid, and the turnout models came up short.
In 2004, Bush beat John Kerry by winning 62.04 million votes. In 2008, Obama won 62.443 million, a gain of only 400,000. In 2004, Kerry garnered 59.028 million votes; John McCain only got 55.386 million. That means this election saw 3.24 million fewer votes than four years ago. Far from being more energized, the nation appeared to be more apathetic.
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The undecideds just didn’t vote.
There’s probably 2 to 3 million more votes to add to the mix in CA absentee ballots.
Because the RINO party has become “just pathetic”
and now we will all pay dearly.
Many held Bush accountable the last 6 weeks regarding the economic and banking problems.
The blame was misguided by many voters who wanted a change and solution because they just put in power the people who collapsed everything.
And didn’t I hear Rush say that 20% of conservatives didn’t vote either?
It might’ve worked out better if the GOP had put up a better candidate. Just a thought.
the point of concern is that mccain received 7 million fewer votes than bush got in 2004. thats very troublesome. that certainly needs to be looked at and solved.
I believe Rush said that the data showed 20% of “conservatives” voting for Hussein. I find that to be rather dubious.
I think the 18-21-year-old college age kids did it for Barry. But just wait, in a couple of years when they are paying higher taxes and then lose their job and are living in their parent’s basement maybe they will re-evaluate their vote in 2012. Hey, I was young and dumb once. But I got over it real quick when I got into the real world.
Highest turnout rate that we've seen since 1908, which was 65.7 percent...
No they voted for “that one”
“I believe Rush said that the data showed 20% of “conservatives” voting for Hussein. I find that to be rather dubious.”
Thank you for the correction. I’d like to find that “dubious” too, but after reading so many comments in the past two years at several websites, it isn’t impossible to believe that there were still 20% of conservatives out there who still wanted to teach the GOP a lesson in spite of Obama’s extremism.
And, who was that? Hunter had no money, Thompson too, and Ron Paul is too strange.
America just lurched to the left big time.
There will be much pain and suffering before the morons who put this man in office realize what they’ve done.
Eventually “The One” will do something the MSM doesn’t like. I will take great delight in watching Obama fight it out with his minions in the MSM.
There will be brief episodes that will be enjoyable, but the pain will be abundant.
Yep, it was high turnout, but it the loser this time (McCain) underperformed the loser in 2004 (Kerry).
So, we didn’t vote and they came out in force, and even a few Republicans voted with them.
There will just be another bunch of ne’er-had-worked college kids to take their place. See the cycle? the right has to pen the message that waiting for the gumment aint the way.
the Regan Democrats/Moderates etc. voted for evil because they think the Republican executive branch was the cause of their 401K devaluation. They were too stupid to figure out that it was Democrats going back to Carter and Clinton that caused the whole mortgage bubble to eventually break. this was helped out big time by ACORN threatening banks who wouldn't give indigents loans. my those little devils get into more trouble don't they?
“No they voted for “that one””
Isn’t that just ducky? I guess radical Islam isn’t the only group who believes in suicide missions. I bet that 20% also claims to support our military and their missions but decided that putting them in more peril was worth the price of their vote.
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