Bush in a landslide?

I know, it makes me grimace too. But I just had a parent conference with a highly intelligent couple. He wore a "Regime change begins at home" t-shirt. At the end of the conference I said I liked his shirt.
They both think that it will be bush in a landslide. They claim that Kerry will get the popular vote but that the electoral will go for bush.

Comments?

looking at the battleground polls

'00 if he got the popular vote and Gore won the ev? I know after the reverse happened he claimed he never said that. How after '00 can the chimp if he get the popular vote and not the ev contest the election after what happened in '00. The repugs ran around saying that the popular vote doesn't matter, it's the ev that elects the Pres. I know, they are the party of hypocrites, but still...........

"landslide".

and Bush gets the electoral vote, how does this constitute a "landslide"?

This is just BS.

how the hell can you lose the pop vote but win the E C in a landslide...

We have had the E C for over two hundred years and it never happened...

Everyone's got one, even people with cool shirts.

:)

turnout. And they also seem to be looking at Faux and CNN and their bogus polls

Kerry is leading in all the key battleground states.

A candidate only gets an electoral landslide if he wins the popular vote by a decent margin.

.. is if he vacations under an unstable mountain. If Bush wins (GOD FORBID!), it'l be thru trickery and cheating and the Supreme Court. Kerry will win the popular by a landslide, BUSH will hold up the electoral college thru legal action.

How fucking dumb are those people?

bush*co is gonna win by way of stealing again?

I agree about the possibility of Bush winning narrowly. It's not necessarily the most likely outcome, but it remains feasible. If Kerry were to win the popular vote and lose the EC (or vice versa), it would be by a very slim margin.

Provided we turn out our vote in a handful of states, there's no reason Kerry can't clearly win both the popular and electoral vote.

Like ducks on a junebug you guys pounce!:)

Thanks! I think I can eat lunch again.

No, I have the deepest respect for this couple, both biologists.
But I was surprised and, yes, I thought it odd to give the popular to Kerry and electoral to * and call it a landslide, but we were out of time.

No way Bush wins by a landslide. It is actually more possible for Kerry to win in a last minute shift. Bush is the known quantity if he hasn't sold the country yet on him as president it isn't going to happen at the last minute.

Of course anything can happen.

- Perhaps people who only have cell phones are mostly Democrats and will vote overwhelmingly for Kerry
- Maybe military families are closeted Kerry families, as some people claim
- Maybe the fundies aren't as motivated as people say
- Maybe overseas votes will go overwhelmingly for Kerry
- Maybe Democrats will all come home and vote for Kerry

But, even if none of those things happen, and the pollsters are 99% on target, then it sounds like Kerry could win or Bush could win. In the absence of better evidence, I just assume this is very close race with an infintesimally small advantage to Kerry.