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November 7, 2004
again with the "landslide victory?"
Republicans continue to talk about the election in terms of a mandate, landslide, etc.... but how close was this election? Take a look at the results if only 136,484 Ohio residents had voted for Kerry:
2004 Election Results:
59,287,808 for Bush (51% of the vote): 254 Electoral College Votes
56,041,503 for Kerry (48% of the popular vote): 272 Electoral College Votes
As you can see, if this small number of voters in Ohio had gone the other way we'd have President-Elect Kerry. Also note that both candidates receive the same percentage of the popular vote. A landslide would mean an impossible number of voters would have had to change their mind. Given the total number of voters in this election 136,484 doesn't seem like an incredibly high number. For the curious it is 0.11834285561629688397254016370565% of the vote (only counting the Bush and Kerry voters; it's even lower if you count all the votes for Nader and other third party-ers).
Posted by sferrell at November 7, 2004 4:58 PM
