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Originally posted by sidewinder
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.
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US Voters in election 1944: 49,944,840
FDR Popular votes: 25,602,504 (51.2%)
Well it's damn close.
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Originally posted by BurgundyBeast
The thing that I find interesting, is that NY, the only place to really be effected by terrorism, voted against the very man who built his campaign by promising to protect the nation from future attacks.
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It's all in Demographics. Basically in this election, it came down to this - if you felt National Security/Terrorism is the most important issue right now, you voted for Bush. If you felt that Economy/Jobs are more important, you voted for Kerry. There are exceptions, but for the most part, America agreed that Bush could better handle the war on terrorism and Kerry could better handle the economy. If you look at the demographics of the state of NY, specifically the county breakdown, you would not be surprised the way NY voted. The most populus counties are also highly urbanized, with very modern populations...these are people that are very liberal in nature. All those counties voted Kerry, while the less populus upstate counties voted Bush. Obviously Kerry won because he got the more populus counties. It's weird how our polling system works...but it does (sorta).
Kerry lost because he spent way too much time attacking Bush and no time explaining himself. We never really got to know him as anything more than the anti-Bush. A man can't win an election that way, at least not in these times.