Posted on 11/11/2004 12:54:49 PM PST by OwnershipSociety
Bush now at 60,400,000+
Final totals will take several more weeks.
Ya Hoooooooo!!!!
Blue is the traditional color for the incumbent party so it is correct although not common.
Knuckle dragging, Bible thumping, homophobes ... every damn one of 'em!
George W. Bush-60,418,140 50.99%
John F. Kerry----56,949,003 48.06%
Bush's margin is, at this point, actually shrinking. There are plenty of absentee and military ballots to go I assume.
CA did not report until the first week of December in 2000.
The margin is still the same about 3.5 million votes Bush over Kerry. The percentage has actually dropped a little according to this website
The colors swap every election. I think, though, that 2000 was such a watershed election, and that the blue state/red state phenomenon has been etched into people's memories, that the powers that be have decided that Republican will equal red and Democrat will equal blue. Permanently.
It's still 3.5 M...how is it shrinking?
I don't think it was until the 2000 election that the major networks all toggled the colors. Democrats, prior to that time, had been red, and the Republicans, blue... I think it had a lot to do with the fact that in most countries the Socialist/Communist/Progressive/Democratic/Labour parties are usually identified with red. I think there was a very deliberate attempt to disassociate the Democratic Party in the USA from the color red in 2000 and subsequently this year, for the purpose of obfuscating it's very real association with said parties globally. I don't think it's in their interest for people here in America to make the connection.
small slippage in Bush Popular Vote margin due to counting California votes; it was 3.56 million on election day, now it is 3.46 million (approx 3.5 million either way, with rounding).
Should bump up slightly as other votes are counted (CA is at 100% now)
Excellent website.
Though it's depressing to live in a state that had 4.8 million Bush voters, and still went for Kerry: California.
Remember that, California haters that live in Red states. Bush got more votes in California then any other state in the Union including Texas.
If you use the mouse over u can see that the state is turning more Republican as a whole.
Terrific site!
Because 3.5 million is a smaller percentage of the vote total now.
But my personal favorite, 1980 and 84....check out those numbers! That's what it's going to look like in 2008!
Actually Blue is the color used in most of the world for conservative candidates. Red is socialist/labor, Yellow is Liberal, Green is Green, Black is Fascist or authoritarian, Orange is Irish Protestant.
I would use Blue for GWB, Red for JFK, Yellow for the Losertarians, Green for the Greens, Black for Pat Buchanan (if Willie Green convinces him to run again), and maybe Gray for Nader (dull color for a thoroughly dull man).
There might be a fight over Pink -- would that be used by Barney Frank or by Jane Fonda?
Purple usually means royalty, so we could reserve that for the Kennedys.
The Michael Moore protest types could use Brown, to match their shirts.
Yah!!! NO he can go ahead and legalize 25 million illegals!! Just what I wanted. Then maybe he could pick a powder puff ball latino to run justice..er..oh..never mind.
No they don't. The short answer I have given before is that the Republicans were Blue from the time of Ike to Reagan in 1980. For most of that time the B&W TVs masked the color, but they became apparent to most of America in the 1968 election. In the 1984 Reagan/Mondale election some of the broadcast networks used Red for Republicans, some still used Blue for Republicans. Same thing happened in 1988.
By 1992 with the Bush/Clinton/Perot election the broadcast networks and CNN had 'standardized' on Red for Republicans and Blue for Democrats. The original reason for the shift was the complaints of the DNC in the 1980 election that the Red color associated with the Democrats was unfair because their weak stance on Defense matters made the Red color seem as socialistic or communistic in the middle-end portion of the Cold War.
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I like Red! It is the color of action. Republicans are the the new revolutionaries!
I did not know that MN was so close in 1980.
Reagan nearly had a 50 state sweep.
Mondale 1,036,364 49.72%
Reagan 1,032,603 49.54%
Other 15,482
Right now the website has it at 53.1% to 46.8%! Now that is sounding like a mandate, folks! The DNC/MSM was saying 51-48 is slim and not a mandate, but I guess the absentee ballots are coming in hot and heavy for the president, which accounts for the new 53.1-46.8 figures!
53.1% to 46.8% is the electoral vote percentage. BTW, when does the national vote tally have to be certified?
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