Even in NY and California, Bush won most of the counties. He just didn't win the most populated ones. I find that very interesting.
This is from USA today a day or so ago.
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i thought that was interesting too, though that map is slightly misleading b/c in many many counties it was like a 51-49% split, not a big difference. if you go on cnn and click each individual state it give a better perspective.
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It makes perfect sense, actually...but it shows that the dems really need to reach out to rural voters!
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I was surprised to see that most of LI voted for Kerry. It felt like FH and I were seriously outnumbered!
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Kerry only won Suffolk by 2000 votes. He won Nassau by a little more. Very close race in Long Island.
Also... does anyone else know that the state of Florida received I think 2 MILLION more votes than the state of New York?
I couldn't believe it. HUGE voter turnout in Florida. I guess a lot of people in NY felt that it was a waste of time to vote figuring it would be Kerry.
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I think its unfair to assume that people didnt turn out to vote because of Kerry's possible win..some actually didnt think either candidate was worthy.
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Most of the red counties down south and in midwest only have a couple of hundred or a few thousand people in them. Most of the countys Kerry won has 100's of thousands of people in them.
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And whats up with Maine? Didn't people vote?
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Posted by lillian771
I was surprised to see that most of LI voted for Kerry. It felt like FH and I were seriously outnumbered!
Actually Kerry only got 59 percent of the LI vote..I was shocked! I thought he would have got much higher..
In suffolk it was 50-50!
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Posted by oct.2004bride
Posted by lillian771
I was surprised to see that most of LI voted for Kerry. It felt like FH and I were seriously outnumbered!
Actually Kerry only got 59 percent of the LI vote..I was shocked! I thought he would have got much higher..
In suffolk it was 50-50!
Hey I think 59% is pretty good.
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59%, was low IMO...
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Good to me would be 75% to 25% or 80%-20%..that nmeans a landslide.. anything close to the 50% means that people were divided.
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Posted by myasmom
Good to me would be 75% to 25% or 80%-20%..that nmeans a landslide.. anything close to the 50% means that people were divided.
Having almost 60% of the vote is no landslide, but like I said before it's pretty good. It signifies unquestionably that people in general favored Kerry. We are talking about almost 10% percentage points, not 2 %.
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Posted by lanikai
Having almost 60% of the vote is no landslide, but like I said before it's pretty good. It signifies unquestionably that people in general favored Kerry. We are talking about almost 10% percentage points, not 2 %.
IMO...60% is good because it wins ...
IMO...it definately doesn't signify unquestionably anything...except that people were divided and kerry won marginally.
which was shocking to me!
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Posted by oct.2004bride
Posted by lanikai
Having almost 60% of the vote is no landslide, but like I said before it's pretty good. It signifies unquestionably that people in general favored Kerry. We are talking about almost 10% percentage points, not 2 %.
IMO...60% is good because it wins ...
IMO...it definately doesn't signify unquestionably anything...except that people were divided and kerry won marginally.
which was shocking to me!
Good point-perhaps my language was too strong in using the word 'unquestionably', but when it comes any vote, there are two or more sides,so there must be division. I guess I don't understand what you mean when you use the word divided. Do you mean you expected more people to support Kerry?
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Yes, I thought that more people were going to vote for Kerry.. I thought he was going to easily get 75%...so i was shocked when it was only 59%
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holy crap! that just make it looks so one-sided
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Posted by lillian771
I was surprised to see that most of LI voted for Kerry. It felt like FH and I were seriously outnumbered!
Actually Kerry only got 59 percent of the LI vote..I was shocked! I thought he would have got much higher..
In suffolk it was 50-50!
Where are you guys getting that 59% number for Long Island? According the CNN, Kerry didn't even receive 51% of the Long Island vote:
according to CNN on wed morning when i watched to see what was going on..they reported 59%. this i am certain because my FH kept saying it over and over...
ETA...oopps that was the NY percentage, i guess not LI specific
