Otherwise, I would have stayed home. Period.
Is is Sarah Palin’s fault that Ohio went from 40-35R in 2004 to 40-31D tonight. A +14 shift to the democrats!!
McCain held Bush’s numbers among Republicans and he actually did quite a bit better among independents. He lost because around 25% of the Republicans that existed in 2004 no longer do and 15% more dems exist than they did in 2004.
If you plug McCain’s #s in to the 2004 turnout, he wins with a larger margin than Bush did.
In 2004 40% said terrorism and moral values were the most important issue vs 24% who said the eocnomy. Tonight 61% said the economy vs 8% who said terrorism. Moral values didn’t even register. Four years ago it got 23%, tonight nothing.
In 2004 Bush’s approval was 53-46 in OH. Tonight it was 28-71. Bush went from a +7 to a -43, a net shift of -50. The fact that McCain was able to even stay within double figures is beyond astonishing given the above data.
Among those who decided in Spetember, Obama won 60-40. Gee, I wonder what ahppened in September?
By the way, these numbers are consistent in just about every state out there.
Obviously the huge decline of the GOP in Ohio and nationwide is all the fault of Sarah Palin.
Governor Palin has not been perfect, but we need to look long at hard at President Bush and what he’s bequeathed to us, before we start looking towards Anchorage for people to blame.
Please.