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Originally posted by soobiesvx93
All of f ****** NY is democratic and they all attacked me because i'm a republican. wtf is goin on? 
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What's going on is this nation being really polarized. Bush talks about getting the most popular vote and the electoral vote, but the fact remains that 48% of the voters who did vote, did not vote for him. The nation is deeply divided. Long and the short of it.
As for the fact that Bush got the most popular vote of any president to seek election....
Think about it. As time passes, the population in this nation is increasing so while the President did get 51% of the vote and soemthing like 58 million votes, that means nothing compared to this nation back in 1944 when FDR ran. There was a smaller population and so FDR might have recieved a higher percentage, but he didn't get 58 million votes because not as many people were eligiable to vote in 1944 compared to today.
That sounds complicated, but hopefully people understnad waht I am saying.