1.5% of All Registered Votes does not Equal a Republican Mandate

JCMach1

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Thu Jan-21-10 01:37 AM
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1.5% of All Registered Votes does not Equal a Republican Mandate

Edited on Thu Jan-21-10 01:38 AM by JCMach1

With a vote difference of around 50,000 and registered voters at appx. 3.4million (2004)...( This is probably even smaller today) Tuesday's vote can be seen in perspective...

Forget policies, just the weakness of the candidate could easily account for 1.5% of the electorate.

Can we stop the hand-wringing already?

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The_Casual_Observer

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Thu Jan-21-10 02:08 AM
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1. & all of a sudden this brown guy is the most powerful man on earth

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TCJ70

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Thu Jan-21-10 02:12 AM
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2. It's more about who DIDN'T show up...

...than who did. Hopefully the White House, Congress and Senate can put their heads together and come up with that conclusion.

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Thu Jan-21-10 02:16 AM
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3. Yep, and MARTHA CHOKELY doesn't either --

This weird result was due to a bad candidate and deep-local power games.

Nothing more than that. No need to go right or left or to declare the end of the Obama presidency -- just get GOOD CANDIDATES -- or at least not local-sports-team-insulting, state-misspelling, terrorist-denying, reporter-to-the-ground-shoving, pharma-lobbyist-fund-raising, garden-club-taxing, uptight-Canadian-sounding, prosecutorial-railroading (remember the Amiraults?) rogue-policeman-coddling (Keith Winfield) vacation-taking FUCK-UPs like

MARTHA FUCKING CHOKELY!!!!

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Bolo Boffin

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Thu Jan-21-10 02:36 AM
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4. No, it doesn't, but there's a more instructive vote difference to consider

1,168,107 votes - Scott Brown
1,058,682 votes - Martha Coakley

1,104,284 votes - John McCain
1,891,083 votes - Barack Obama

Scott Brown got over 60,000 more votes than John McCain did in 2008. Martha Coakley got 840,000 less votes than Barack Obama.

What does that tell you? Depressed Democratic base, excited Republican base. 80% of the Obama voters who stayed home said they were frustrated about the centrist mood of Congress.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/20/obama-backers-more-commit_n_429673.html

"Of those who sat out the election, 86 percent favored the public option, while only seven percent opposed it."

86% of 840,000 would have meant an obliteration of Trucky McCenterfold.

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JCMach1

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Thu Jan-21-10 02:53 AM
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5. The lesson to be learned here- there is no lesson to be learned

Other than weak candidates lose elections. Anyone think a Kennedy would have lost this race? Or, a popular congress-critter?

For the President then, just throw the tea leaves out and just do what you think is right and things will turn around before Nov...

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