Comments on: Obama’s Win: Why Wasn’t It Bigger?

By: It was a bad loss, just deal with it

It was a bad loss, just deal with it — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 05:48:18 +0000

“Razor thin” margin in Virginia? Va was pretty clearly for Obama – he won by 6 points, you would be laughed out of the election commission if you asked for a recount. It is a clear victory.

As for the roughly 8-9 point win in the national polls and the most decisive electoral win since Reagan what are you talking about? Democrats blew out the Republicans in this race, that is not a partisan statement that is just how it went this time around. In a few elections cycles Rebpublicans will do the same. However, the whole blame the media, blame everbody else mentality, calling big loses wins motiff is going to start to sound like whining.

By: dj

dj — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 05:33:13 +0000

June,
Alaska is a great state actually, but apparently you take your cues from someone else instead of making your own opinions based on at least a little tiny bit of research. haha we get it…Alaska, Russia..Palin remarks..great one.ooooh got me there. There was nothing hateful about anything i said. You almost got away with coming off neutral but you let your bias slip in.like calling your president shrub as you put it.But its typical…attack personally instead of with intellect.To let you know i am a registered independent, so im no Republican defender. FACT- Read the exit polls, minorities voted from 64% to 95% Obama depending on minority vs. 5% to 32% McCain. THAT is about race. 95 % percent African American voted Obama across gender, income, age. THAT is about race.Your numbers are wrong…or at least they dont match the CNN polls..which should be taken with a grain of salt anyways…58% percent of Obama voters thought race was THE most important factor…we call that a MAJORITY in Poli Sci. 51% said it was important..still a MAJORITY. So yes race was a a big factor if not THE factor on his win as with the other elements i pointed out.The other stuff was speculation ..an OPINION on my part based what i research, read etc.

By: roofus

roofus — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 21:27:16 +0000

Hmm…I wonder how many hundreds of thousands of fraudulent votes were cast in swing states and which candidate benefitted the most…

By: Pat Hendrix

Pat Hendrix — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 20:00:23 +0000

The idea that this was a strategic mistake by McCain’s handlers or the fault of Bush doesn’t square with polling. Issue after issue, Democratic ideas are favored by Republicans. Combined with demographic changes – and this isn’t a reference to race, nitwits – namely, that college educated Americans have abandoned the Republican Party to the wealthy, hyper-religious and criminally stupid, the outcome of this race was entirely predictable. Pray for overreach all you want, the demographics and ideas suggest a long period in the majority for the Democrats.

By: rick

rick — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 12:52:02 +0000

Amen dj

By: June

June — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 01:54:41 +0000

dj
This election was not about the shrub in the White House. Nor was it about race. Read the following from CNN:”Those who said race was an important factor voted 55 percent to 44 percent in favor of Obama. But Obama also was the winner by a similar margin among those who said race was not important, which suggests that race was not a decisive factor in this election.” The people I know who backed Obama did so because of his values and plans regarding health care, energy, employment and the future of our country and its people. Obama can and will do great things for this country. He will do them by bringing together democrats and republicans. People such as yourself who are hateful and narrow-minded should really find another country to live in. It’s obvious that you don’t want good things to happen in America. You would rather see failure just to try and prove a point. I have an idea. Why don’t you move to Alaska? I hear that from there, it’s just a short jaunt to Russia.

By: dj

dj — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 23:45:00 +0000

It was inevitable. It was about Bush plain and simple. Eight years of war with no end in sight and seemingly no accomplishments, that and a failing economy.Strong Republican issues but only when its good, when its bad…watch out. Republicans really didnt stand a chance. Race did play a huge part, if not being the main reason for Obamas election – look at CNN’s exit poll results.
Something to look foward to? yes. The next election will be a guaranteed Republican win. Why? one- race will not play as the main issue now. two- with Democrats running everything, they have no one to blame when they screw it up. And they will screw it up. Luckily Republicans still have filibuster power so all they need to do in the next four years is sit back quietly, build the base back up, let Democrats screw up, keep them in check when it needs be.

By: roofus

roofus — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 23:37:36 +0000

Well, there’s approximately 47 million adult Americans who do not pay income taxes. Wonder who got their votes?

By: WTF

WTF — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 20:38:02 +0000

When North Carolina finally gets called, Obama will have 364 electoral votes. He turned Indiana and Virginia blue for the first time since LBJ. You can’t really do better than that.

By: Obama did not get more votes because of race

Obama did not get more votes because of race — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 20:21:56 +0000

I think I saw where over 80% of white men in Alabama voted for McCain.

Race played a huge factor with old white guys – (and the bible thumpers)

Congrats to Obama for pulling off something most of us would not have believed possible several years ago.