Oh my! When I see by how much Barack Obama won.....

[FrenchieCat]

Colorado by 9
New Mexico by 15
Nevada by 12
California by 24
Oregon by 16
Washington by 17
Iowa by 9
New Hampshire by 9
Minnesota by 10
Wisconsin by 13
Pennsylvania by 11
Virginia by 6
Michigan by 16
New York by 30
Connecticut by 23

and on and on.

The only close ones were
Indiana and North Carolina

all I can say is Oh My! :wow:

http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/results/president/

[tblue]

1. Holy chit, mon!

[FrenchieCat]

2. Those are some awesome margins.....

Especially in those states that Bush had won last time.....

Like New Mexico, Nevada, Iowa, and Colorado....which were the only states he needed to win along with 2004 states won by Kerry.

He really outdid himself....and so did we! :)

[Cali_Democrat]

3. Obama out performed the polls in almost every swing state

Bradley Effect? LOL!!!

[FrenchieCat]

5. Hope we won't ever have to hear about that shit ever again!

The media beat that one like a dead horse!

[TheDonkey]

4. B-L-O-W-O-U-T!

I'm just loving the spread in PA!

[Ediacara]

6. Don't forget the states he nearly won

Missouri -1
Montana -3
Georgia -5

I think these three will be blue in '12.

[FrenchieCat]

9. And winning Ohio by 4 was great too....considering 2004!

[ShenandoahAspen]

7. Can you say "landslide"?

I sure can. And I doubt NC will be as close in four years -- now that we're finally BLUE we're going to stay that way!

[onehandle]

8. Bill Clinton won more states and electoral votes in 1992 and 1996.

But I suspect that Obama will at least match him in 2012, especially if Palin is our opponent.

On edit: I'm just goofing around. Don't take my Subject line seriously.

[FrenchieCat]

10. Ross Perot in 1992 was a factor though.....and Bill only won 43% of the vote

and got 44 million votes.
and in 1996, Bill was an incumbent running....so not the same thing.

Barack got 66 Million votes!

[onehandle]

13. We have 50 million more people in the U.S. today than we did in '92. That is a factor.

heh heh. Frenchie, I'm just rattling your cage. Forgive me.

[FrenchieCat]

15. Just repeat after me.......52%!

You can do it.....yes, you can! :)

[CreekDog]

28. wrong!

53% :rofl: :hug:

http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/results/president/

[NYC_SKP]

11. Oh yeah, I remember, the white democratic govenor from a Southern state.

That was not awesome.

This election was awe inspiring and historic in ways that overshadow all others.

All others.

[ecstatic]

14. Exactly! What Obama managed to do in this election

is nothing short of amazing! Not just a win but an epic win!

[NYC_SKP]

12. Recommended...#5 nt

[old mark]

16. "The numbers are tightening." And the GOP says there is

no mandate.
Rec.
mark

[FrenchieCat]

18. Oh yeah....the old Tightening routine.......

They sure was selling that one, weren't they?

And the pundits and the News organizations think we are supposed to trust them.
That's the funniest part of all.

[BlooInBloo]

17. So much for "the polls are tightening" concern trolling, eh?

[FrenchieCat]

19. Funnier than shit on retrospect.

I hope Nelly learned something. ;)

[VADem11]

20. How about Hawaii

We won there by 45 points. We also took Vermont by 35 and Massachusetts by 26.

[FrenchieCat]

21. And of course, Illinois by 25!

We simply kicked ass in the BIG States! :)

[mucifer]

29. Indiana on the boarder with the south side of Chicago. That was NICE!

We scurried across the boarder and registered people to vote and dragged them to the polls! It was loads of fun!

We probably would have lost Indiana if it wasn't so close to Chicago.

[IndianaJones]

22. none more impressive than turning Indiana from +20 for Bush in '04 to blue in '08. nt.

[FrenchieCat]

23. AYe......that is the other number to analyze......

and that's a big one!

[Connonym]

24. Hey W, this is what a fucking mandate looks like n/t

[OneBlueSky]

25. for me, the fact of Obama's election gets more exciting every day . . .

the more it begins to sink in that we've actually elected the anti-Bush, the more I smile and scratch my head and say "Wha-a-a-a-t?" . . . that the voters elected Barack Hussein Obama gives me more hope for this nation than I've had in, well, ever . . .

congratulations, America . . . ya done woke up! . . .

(and just in time, I might add) . . .

[fujiyama]

26. NV blew me away the most

No poll showed that kind of margin. It was absolutely crazy.

I woke up last Wed. after a night of partying and checked the map and was blown away. It's taken a few days to absorb the events.

Incredible. I've looked at that and kept telling myself, that's actually how it turned out. That's not a projection.

[kennetha]

30. Nevada is a place where Dems turned out in droves

Nevada is one of few places where McCain almost matched Bush's vote totals -- underperformed Bush by ONLY 8k votes. But Obama way, way overperformed Kerry -- topped Kerry's vote by about 135K and so swamped McCain.

I think McCain's people seemed to have thought that if they just hit Bush's numbers or slightly better, they'd have a chance in the closely contested previously red states. They thought wrong -- as VA, NC, NV, among others, proved. In those places and a few other battleground states, McCain got Bush's numbers or slightly better in the case of NC, but still lost. (McCain matched Bush almost vote for vote in VA. )

[Born_A_Truman]

32. California helped turn Nevada BLUE

When I did the Drive for Change to Nevada in October, I got to the Las Vegas office early. Before I knew it I turned around and over 1200 Californians were standing in line to go canvass for Obama. So many, we couldn't get everyone in the office. There was a line around the front of the building. I had to fight back tears all morning. By evening I could barely walk another step, but we hit every door assigned to us and I am so glad I went.

[Olney Blue]

27. It's a mandate for change, and he will bring it.

[kennetha]

31. Well, if change means not Bush, he's already brought that.

But I assume change means something more substantive. And we'll have to see what develops on that front. Don't think this will be easy or automatic. Remember the last two times we started with unified Democratic governments. Those two experiments under Carter and Clinton was each rapidly followed by periods of Repugnant ascendency.

So we've got our work cut out for us, if we are to ensure that history doesn't repeat itself.

[lukasahero]

33. DC by 86

:rofl:

VT by 35
RI by 28
MA by 26
MD by 25
DE by 25

[spanone]

34. yea, that librul media called it right...a 'horserace' till the end

:sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm:

[kennetha]

35. don't be fooled by the huge popular vote margin

In one way and one way only - but it's a way that matters -- the election was closer than you might think. Obama actually won by something like 1.2 million votes in the states that decided the election. THat is, if the REpugnants had gotten about 1.2 million more votes in the states that flipped from red to blue or if about 600K total votes in those states had switched from McCain to Obama, McCain would have won the EC, despite trailing Obama 7 million plus votes nationally.

That would have been a travesty.

It will happen (again) someday. We didn't notice in 2000 so much because of the Florida fiasco.

I still says it way past time to can the electoral college or at least radically alter it. No way should a candidate who gets trounced in the popular vote have even a shot at winning the presidency. McCain unfortunately, did have a shot. He fell just 600k 1.2M votes short.

[ThatsMyBarack]

36. Those are HUGH!

:wow: My favorite state Obama won last week was OHIO! :patriot: :woohoo: