3. The only age group in which the majority voted for Kerry was young adults (Kerry: 54%, Bush: 44%
lol- it's been that way for ages. The young are always enchanted by the left.
4. In spite of Bush's win, the majority of Americans still think the country is headed in the wrong direction (56%), think the war wasn't worth fighting (51%), and don’t approve of the job George W. Bush is doing (52%).
And your guy still lost!! What's that tell ya?
6. Michigan voted for Kerry! So did the entire Northeast, the birthplace of our democracy. So did 6 of the 8 Great Lakes States. And the whole West Coast! Plus Hawaii. Ok, that's a start.
knucklehead- The dems have always held these parts of the country!
If this is a good start then the Democratic party has been spinning their wheels for how long??
And they will continue to spin until they stop alienating the South and the West.
8. 88% of Bush's support came from white voters. In 50 years, America will no longer have a white majority. Hey, 50 years isn't such a long time! If you're ten years old and reading this, your golden years will be truly golden and you will be well cared for in your old age.
Funny thing, though. The Republican Party will still thrive as our population demographics shift, due to its ability to change with the times. The dems are still stuck in Camelot. Bush got over 40% of the latino vote.
9. Gays, thanks to the ballot measures passed on Tuesday, cannot get married in 11 new states. Thank God. Just think of all those wedding gifts we won't have to buy now.
Democracy in action. Those states were correct in letting their people decide on this issue, rather than judges and lawmakers. Expect more states to follow.
16. There are nearly 300 million Americans -- 200 million of them of voting age. We only lost by three and a half million! That's not a landslide
In this Information Age, where we get to learn as much as we care about each candidate, I would guess the days of landslides are over. Wait ..... 2008 ..... Guiliani vs. Hillary... Oops! what was I thinking....
-- it means we're almost there.
No it doesn't.... Dems won 1992 and 96 easily. Barely lost in 2000, but never really in a position to win in 2004. Sounds like you're falling further behind...
Imagine losing by 20 million.
Imagine Guiliani Vs Hillary...
If you had 58 yards to go before you reached the goal line and then you barreled down 55 of those yards, would you stop on the three yard line, pick up the ball and go home crying -- especially when you get to start the next down on the three yard line?
Michael, why on earth are you worried about going 58 yards for a score when the Democrats had a first and goal just before their convention? I guess inviting you got them three straight unsportsmanlike conducts....
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. The country has always been filled with evangelicals -- that is not news. What IS news is that so many people have shifted toward a Massachusetts liberal. In fact, that's BIG news. Which means, don't expect the mainstream media, the ones who brought you the Iraq War, to ever report the real truth about November 2, 2004. In fact, it's better that they don't. We'll need the element of surprise in 2008.
Yeah, and Bush gathered more votes than any candidate EVER.
Neither figure should be valued too high as both were effected by the highest voter turn out since 1968.
It's all a numbers game, Michael, there is no SHIFT towards some liberal from Mass.
Given the President's poor approval rating, Kerry didn't have to be all that good to win. He wasn't.
