Let me see if I can get this straight........

[buff2]

Chimpy "won" the election by 51% and he "won" the popular vote by over 3 million.

His job approval rating is under 50%......49% to be exact.How the hell did he truly "win" with these kinds of numbers and why doesn't someone bring this up when they are reporting this shit?

Why is it (democrats especially) NEVER say a word about it and all they WILL say is "he won,no fraud found"....move on?

This really grates on my nerves. Why is it that all the people who CAN speak out and have the cable shows to do it on,WON'T???

These numbers in the first paragraph looks like "fuzzy math" to me. :grr:

[ohioliberal]

1. I agree it really grates on my nerves too!!!!

[tx_dem41]

2. Umm...its that whole "lesser of two evils" thing for many that voted for..

Bush. That could explain the numbers you cite.

[Mistress Quickly]

3. approval ratings

and votes aren't the same thing

lesser of 2 evils, like the other poster said.

people were scared to vote for Kerry.

[princehal]

4. Prolly

Because the approval numbers are not limited to Voters.

I am convinced that if every person in the United States voted; liberals would win.

We need a national holliday for the elections.

[meisje]

5. It could be that we have no real evidence!!!!

We have plenty of stats and accusations, but nothing that would stand up in court.

[Inland]

6. He won by going hellishly negative and scaring the shit out of people

People didn't vote for Bush. They voted against change or against Kerry. Bush knew from day one that his record was terrible, and that the only way to save himself was to go negative and divide America by setting religious against non-religious, rural against city, south vs north, by attacking those damn elites. Bush was so intent on smearing Kerry that he waded into divisions of days past, smearing Kerry as a hippie.

Of course, that means that Bush is a president with no mandate, no approval, presiding over a country seething with hatreds. But all he cares about is the part where he is president.

[mirandapriestly]

7. It does more than grate on my nerves...

we have been taken over by criminals. I am not trying to be inflammatory, that is the truth. George Bush is a criminal who comes from a family that has figured out over the generations how to beat the system and get away with it. When a democrat "speaks out" they tend to get destroyed overnight. You are right about the numbers they don't make any sense.

[forgethell]

8. Because

they only numbers that count are cast on NOv 2. The rest...doesn't.

[gumby]

9. numbers "cast" on Nov 2 don't count anymore.

Those numbers didn't count in 2000, 2002, or 2004.

What matters now is how the cast are counted.

It is perfectly clear that some castes are more equal than the others.

[forgethell]

10. Well by "count"

I mean they "won" and are in the WH, and will remain there. Everything else is BS, unless hard evidence emerges to give the statistics some weight.

[gratuitous]

11. Part of the discrepancy . . .

Part of the discrepancy is also found between folks who don't like Bush, his fubar war of imperialism, all the war dead (civilian and military), and yet who can't quite bring themselves to believe that we're squandering so much money and so many lives for nothing. They definitely don't approve of Chimpy or anything he does, but they feel that if they had voted against him, it somehow translates into insufficient "support" for the troops.

Many an otherwise canny person has made this error, and when the troops enter the equation, all sorts of judgment gets fogged up because we as a people can't believe that our star-spangled freckle-faced boys and girls in uniform are anything but the most selfless heroes.

[youngred]

12. There is an explanation

with the Bin Laden video, for the first time ever undecided's broke for the President in the last weekend before the election. Now, these people were undecided for so long because they didn't like what Bush was doing but they didn't trust Kerry because of all the mud that had accumulated on him. Once Kerry is back out of the picture they went back to distrusting Bush and the way he was going, but they'd given him their vote.