Kerry: "I won the popular vote in the battleground states by two percentage points." -- WRONG

Meet the Press ^ | 1/30/05 | John Kerry on Meet the Press

[tellw]

SEN. KERRY: I lost, Tim, to an incumbent president by a closer margin than an incumbent president has ever won re-election before in the history of the country, and if you add up the popular vote in the battleground states, I won the popular vote in the battleground states by two percentage points. We just didn't distribute it correctly in Ohio.

[tellw]

Kerry is incorrect. If you add up the votes Kerry got in the 17 battleground states (AZ AR CO FL IA ME MI MN MO NV NH NM OH OR PA WA WV & WI), Kerry got 22,977,886 votes (or 49.4% excluding 3rd party candidates). In the same 17 battleground states, Bush got 23,445,587 votes (or 50.6% excluding 3rd party candidates).

"Battleground states" as determined by TIME Magazine

Election results added up from CNN.

Perhaps Kerry was counting New Jersey and Hawaii as "Battleground states."

[jennyjenny]

He's a liar, and a stupid one at that.

[frogjerk]

Perhaps Kerry is just delusional...

[TRY ONE]

Figures lie and liars figure.......

[mainepatsfan]

Did he consider Massachusetts a battleground state?

[rockabyebaby]

OMG WHY won't this idiot go away? Whine, whine, whine, whine, does he think whining will make the outcome different?

[JCRoberts]

It depends on what your definition of battlegroud state is...

[caisson71]

That's it, I know what Kerry was doing in the elections.....he was playing horseshoes!!

[garyhope]

Kerry is still trying to re-slice the baloney. Each slice gets thinner and thinner. I can already see through it.

[Semper Paratus]

Al Gore won the popular vote nationwide and look what that got him.

[cspackler]

I lost, Tim

That's all he really needs to know.

[jennyjenny]

Ha, that's exactly what came to my mind when I heard him say it on MTP.

[dead]

I would suspect that he's labeling every state he won as a battleground state, and those he lost are right wing nut states.

[Tempest]

I wonder what Kerry's screen name is over at the DU.

He would fit right in with the reality challenged nutjobs over there.

[LibWrangler]

Isn't there some kind of statute of limitations on being a sore loser?

[My2Cents]

I lost, Tim, to an incumbent president by a closer margin than an incumbent president has ever won re-election before in the history of the country

And I hope you break out in night sweats because of it, John.

[frogjerk]

He also won the homosexual vote, the baby killers vote, the great unwashed vote, incarcerated vote, etc...

What's the point to his insipid rambling? His only presence on that show on that day can only be attributed to being on-air just in case there was problem with the Iraqi election, which there wasn't.

[beaversmom]

Ha, ha. Another Gore. Can't get over that he lost. I can understand Gore's psychosis a little bit better. He did lose by a very close margin and he won the popular vote. Well, maybe Gore and Kerry can start a support group--The Democrat Presidential Losers Club. They can have role playing--what I would do as president.

[azcap]

The problem with Democrats is the idea that they think they can "distribute the votes correctly." You do have to admit that they seem to have "distributed them correctly" in Washington state.

[Polyxene]

But for the grace of God, this horse-faced hyena would be our president! )))))))))SHUDDER((((((((

[My2Cents]

Perhaps he's including New York and California as battleground states.

[mrs tiggywinkle]

He's on the Algore path...

[MacDorcha]

Kerry who? I've forgotten about anyone named Kerry...

[negril]

"I won the popular vote before I lost it". -- John Kerry

[frogjerk]

The Democrat Presidential Losers Club

That's a pretty big club!

[MacDorcha]

Algore? man, thats two in a row.... who were these people? :p

Oh yeah... speedbumps.

[MKM1960]

Well you pegged it there. One of my favorite sayings is: Close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades. And close is the only place Kerry is going to be to the Presidency. LOL

[cardinal4]

Did he consider Massachusetts a battleground state?

He considered it before he didnt consider it..

[freemama]

We are still working our way through the voter fraud in Wisconsin. He may have actually lost this state!

[marvlus]

NICE Pic!

[Red Badger]

It's dead, Tim......

[mainepatsfan]

Even if he were right it would be totally irrelevant. I guess he sleeps better at night telling himself little stats like this.

[dfwgator]

And Oklahoma outscored USC 9-7, in the fourth quarter.

[My2Cents]

"Senator, that's a really great political analysis....FOR ME TO POOP ON!"

[lilylangtree]

Pat Sajak called him a "jerk" and sKerry really is but Sajak should have added "idiot" too.

[NCC-1701]

"...Isn't there some kind of statute of limitations on being a sore loser?..."

Not if you're a dimoCRACK.

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

"I lost, Tim, to an incumbent president by a closer margin than an incumbent president has ever won re-election before in the history of the country,"

Bwahahahahah

[mainepatsfan]

It's like a baseball team that has the best record during the regular season but can't get the job done in the post season.

[thoughtomator]

Man, this guy is the ideal representative of the Democrat party... comic, pathetic, and flat-out wrong, all at once.

[Viking2002]

This a--hole needs to be deprogrammed - he still believes his own PR from his '04 crapola generator.......

[YaYa123]

I"ll never forget hearing Clinton Justice Dept operative Eric Holder smugly predicting that "Kerry will win if every vote is counted." Here's a column that documents it:

http://www.aberdeennews.com/mld/aberdeennews/news/special_packages/election2004/polman/9999765.htm

There was no doubt in my mind that Holder was in on the fix. He knew the plans afoot for illegal Soros funded voters to steal the election.

Thank God Bush won (on many counts). But foremost, the crooks from the Clinton administration,, like Eric Holder, are not back in high government positions.

[spodefly]

Kerry's entire career is based on lies, and the belief that people out here in the hinterlands are too stupid to see through his charade ("Can I get me a hunting license here?")

[mainepatsfan]

I'm sure he'll blame this mistake on a member of his staff.

[speed_addiction]

It is not enough for the Democrats to long for redistributing wealth, now they want to redistribute the vote.

[theDentist]

Ol' Horseface can't stand that the US rejected his failed performance overwhelmingly. He should be taken to the glue factory, but the best they could do from him is make paste for Post-It notes.

[tellw]

If you add in NJ and HI as "battleground" states, Kerry gets 25,022,160 votes in the battleground. But Bush still beats him with 25,233,900 votes. Closer margin, but Bush still wins.

[plain talk]

We just didn't distribute it correctly in Ohio.

Freudian slip? WE didn't distribute it correctly? hmmm?

[My2Cents]

He also won the homosexual vote, the baby killers vote, the great unwashed vote, incarcerated vote, etc...

He also won the dead vote (present company excluded).

[MKM1960]

Sounds like your talking about the St. Louis Cardinals. Sad thing is I am a Cardinals fan from birth and I have to agree with you. :-(

[Caged in Canuckistan]

Someone needs to develop a video game where, as Charlton Heston, you get to rifle down likenesses of Kerry, Gore, Dukakis, Carter, Mondale, maybe some rabbits, Gore again, Hilary, some Apes, Hilary, Kerry, some Apes that look like Hilary, and finally all segments of Michael Moore...which can be the final level.

This is genius, I'm off to the patent office.