Sigh.
Try going back, reading, and understanding my post; you completely missed its entire point.
I'm in complete despair at getting people to understand basic math.
I’ve been trying to find frontpages from newpapers on day after elections to compare that to the final votes (I’ll bet there are Freepers who have saved some of those pares in ther homes.) I think I do remember that the day after the election in ‘o8, it was already determined that ‘08 had exceeded ‘04, and I was underwhelmed in that the supposed electoral phenom had only brought out about 5 m more votes as opposed to the incremental boost of almost 20 m between ‘00 and ‘04. I’ll bet there will be three million votes added totally between the two candidates.