Quote Originally Posted by Dr_BuzzCzar View Post
Bush - 50.7% of the popular vote, Kerry - 48.3% of the popular vote
Bush - 286 Electoral votes, Kerry - 251 Electoral votes

Now exactly where is this "broad based support across the political spectrum" you speak of? Rovian tactics worked in 2004. Fear won.
Hmm, the actual numbers speak for themselves.

Bush won a majority of the votes in 31 states vs 19 states for Kerry. Of those 31 states, Bush had a greater than 10% margin of victory in 17 of them. Sounds pretty broad based to me.

Viewed in that fashion, you could call it a landslide, couldn't you?

Given that CA and NY account for 86 electoral votes, take those 2 states out of the count and Kerry would have had less than 170 electoral votes and +- 11 million fewer votes.

I stand by my earlier statements, Bush's popularity was much higher in 2004 and Kerry was a weak candidate.

I am not looking forward to the red / blue map next week, though.