Republicans Stayed Home=Obama Wins

Republicans Stayed Home=Obama Wins
Well, shiver my timbers, apparently The Messiah wasn't swept in by some massive new voter turnout and millions of Americans deciding to vote for a return to the glorious 70s, with 18% inflation, gas lines, hostage-taking, and a MalNar-in-Chief who's mainly known for ushering "malaise" into America. That's right--Barky didn't inspire Americans into wishing they were just like the Soviets because we're all sick and tired of keeping the fruits of our labor.

Report: '08 turnout same as or only slightly higher than '04

A new report from American University’s Center for the Study of the American Electorate concludes that voter turnout in Tuesday’s election was the same in percentage terms as it was four years ago — or at most has risen by less than 1 percent.

The report released Thursday estimates that between 126.5 and 128.5 million Americans cast ballots in the presidential election earlier this week. Those figures represent 60.7 percent or, at most, 61.7 percent of those eligible to vote in the country.

“A downturn in the number and percentage of Republican voters going to the polls seemed to be the primary explanation for the lower than predicted turnout,” the report said. Compared to 2004, Republican turnout declined by 1.3 percentage points to 28.7 percent, while Democratic turnout increased by 2.6 points from 28.7 percent in 2004 to 31.3 percent in 2008...

“Many people were fooled (including this student of politics although less so than many others) by this year’s increase in registration (more than 10 million added to the rolls), citizens’ willingness to stand for hours even in inclement weather to vote early, the likely rise in youth and African American voting, and the extensive grassroots organizing network of the Obama campaign into believing that turnout would be substantially higher than in 2004,” Curtis Gans, the center’s director, said in the report. “But we failed to realize that the registration increase was driven by Democratic and independent registration and that the long lines at the polls were mostly populated by Democrats.”

And I will remind you again about the popular vote differences for McCain who received 56,904,214 popular votes and Obama who tallied 64,644, 293. That's a difference of 7,740,079, millions less than the population of Los Angeles county, and about half a million less than the population of New York City.

Perspective, people, perspective. The vote on Tuesday was a rejection of Republicans, not, I repeat not an embrace of the man who was endorsed by Hamas. This nation remains conservative and Obama is the recipient of a protest vote against fake conservative poseurs who found it more fun to dabble in "The New Global Order" and to have their pockets lined by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac than to honor the legacy of Reagan conservativism, it's that simple.
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