Final Just the Facts: Memo from Matthew Dowd

George W. Bush ^ | November 4, 2004

[JessieHelmsJr]

Sweet Victory and Revenge!

[WoodstockCat]

• Garnered 7 million more popular votes than in 2000 - more than twice the amount that President Clinton increased his vote between 1992 and 1996.

my favorite..aimed right at the left and their "most popular President ever" bilge..

[mattdono]

Bump for reference.

[Rummyfan]

Great rundown of the stats but .....

Mr President, please fire Norman Mineta!!!

[StJacques]

". . . Becomes the first presidential candidate to win more than 50% of the popular vote since 1988. . . ."

I wonder if the Democrats have sat down and asked themselves what it means that no Democrat has been elected President of the United States with a clear majority of the popular vote since 1976? Four times a Republican candidate has won 50%+ of the popular vote since Carter; Reagan in 1984 and 1986, George H. W. Bush in 1988, and George W. Bush in 2004.

Are there any Democrats who think that this statistic is meaningful?

[scottinoc]

Another myth is that Clinton never won a majority "because of Ross Perot". He never won a majority because most voters chose not to vote for him.

[chs68]

"the first Republican President to be re-elected with House and Senate majorities since 1924."

To be precise about it, the President who was elected in 1924 was Calvin Coolidge.

Coolidge was not really "re-elected" President in 1924.

He had been elected Vice President in 1920, and became President when President Harding died in 1923.

[RoseofTexas]

Bump for later reference for my RAT friends and family....hehhehehe...gosh, I'm mean...;-)

[rwfromkansas]

bump

[RobRoy]

ME TOO.

I wish the bookmark feature actually worked...

[mrs9x]

Also, another piece of data that shatters the myth that undecideds go 2-1 for the challenger in Presidential races...Dowd's numbers showed a 51-48 in favor of Bush for undecideds.

[planekT]

...Another myth is that Clinton never won a majority "because of Ross Perot"...

Man, I had not heard that one. That's exactly backwards.
Conservatives went for Perot, not liberals. Bush 41 would have been reelected handily.

[King Prout]

?
the bookmark feature works just fine for me.

[highimpact]

• Employing cutting-edge research to efficiently target Republicans and Swing Voters through media buys and voter contact, the first time a presidential campaign utilized such research.

It seems odd that this was the first Presidential campaign ever to use targeted advertising. What was different about this "cutting-edge" research and traditional demographic research?

[kesg]

I'm loving this...

[GeorgeW23225]

I know that this was written by Matthew Dowd yesterday, so some information is already outdated. Votes are still being counted in many States (absentee) and as of today, the President has nearly, 59,100,000 votes. Also, here is an interesting fact. When the MSM and the liberals tell you that we have a "divided" nation, tell them that THEY are absolutely, positively WRONG!! How could we be divded, when 83%, YES....83% of counties in the United States voted to re-elect President Bush?? An amazing statistic, isn't it?? PASS THE WORD!!

[RobRoy]

Well, I found out that it will tell you that it has been bookmarked and gives you the option to return to the thread. If you don't select that option, the bookmark does not show up - at least not for me. My last one did show up after I selected that option, but many others are simply not there.

It might be that the message shows up too soon, implying that it has been bookmarked when, in fact, you MUST return to the thread for the process to complete.

I dunno. You would think that if you get a message saying the bookmark has been added that it would have been added. I'm not whining about it. I'm just observing it.

[GeorgeW23225]

I don't think that targeted advertising is new. I think that the "technology" used to identify our base of support, was the new aspect of the campaign. I hope we keep the technology under lock and key. We certainly don't want the democRats to have it!! :-)