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2004 US Presidential Election
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November 03, 2004
Ohio | Moronski wraps it up

At this time in Ohio, the President has a lead of approximately 135,000 votes with virtually all of the votes in.  Even using the Democrat estimate of “200,000” provisional ballots (votes cast by folks not registered for various reasons) for the counting of additional votes, Kerry would have to win 70 percent of those votes to cast this election into doubt, and that is assuming all of those provisional ballots are valid.  This isn’t Florida and 537 votes — then again, neither was Florida this year.  Ohio’s 20 electoral votes will be in the GOP column, assuring the Republicans have claim on 269 votes and no worse than a situation that throws the election into the House (where the GOP controls 30 state delegations).

President Bush also leads in New Mexico and Iowa.

It’s over.

Once we get through the election formalities in Ohio and elsewhere, there will be enough electoral votes to re-elect President Bush.  Four times in our history — 1824, 1876, 1888 and 2000 — the President won the Electoral College without finishing first in the popular vote.  Three times, the incumbent did not get re-elected.  History was made in 2004.

President Bush, constantly castigated for finishing second in the popular vote in 2000, finished with the most votes in American history — outpacing his opponent by over 3,500,000 votes nationwide.

President Bush is the first nominee to win a majority of the votes cast since his father in 1988. 

Despite the hundreds of millions of dollars invested by various left-wing groups (moveon.org, The Voter Fund, AFL-CIO, NARAL, et al) to assassinate this President’s character, they failed and the results reflect that.  More new voters showed up Tuesday, and the numbers show the obvious — they put President Bush over the top.

It was a great night for the President and a strong night for the GOP.

More in the coming days about the dissection of this race and the Senate races.  



Posted by Andrew Ian Dodge at November 3, 2004 09:17 AM | TrackBack
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