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Malstrom’s Mea Culpa
QandO —
... According to Capt. Ed, a lethal result of McCain’s failed message was that some 7 Million fewer Republicans showed up the polls than in 2004: ...
Random Election Links
Slublog —
How badly did McCain underperform Bush? Ouch.
A very nice post from Beldar on the election of Obama.
It's not the end of the world.
Why McCain lost. If nothing else, I hope this election ends open primaries.
GOP Loses 6 Million Votes in 2008 Compared to 2004
Gateway Pundit —
Whose to blame? That's debatable. But, here are a couple of interesting figures: President-elect Obama gained 950,000 more votes than George W. Bush did in 2004. Obama gained 3,962,863 more votes than Kerry collected in 2004. John McCain lost 6,244,903 votes from President Bush's record total in 2004. Ed Morrissey has a more thorough analysis on the collapse.
Random thoughts & links
The Anchoress —
... all science! He’s against all stem cell research! He’s a neanderthal” dishonesty. That only took 8 years.
Tom Shales: The Press Behaved Badly last night. Well…they’ve been behaving badly for over a decade, but last night, even my husband - who does not care about this sort of stuff - had to turn them off for all their self-congratulating glee. He found it “infantile.”
Ed Morrissey: Good Analysis.
Instapundit: Showcases the diff between lefties and ...
Morrissey Begins to Get It
Daily Pundit —
Hot Air » Blog Archive » Notes from the collapse
John McCain and the GOP didn’t get their turnout in this race. They lost almost seven million voters from 2004, a rather stunning number. We’ll be chewing on this for a while, but that’s more than 10% of the Bush vote that got lost in this election. Did they stay home, or did significant numbers of them defect to Obama? I’m guessing the former. The GOP demoralized their base by acting like Democrats for too many years, and the winds of “change” proved too dispiriting this time around. ...
Record Turnout
Newshoggers.com —
... Ed Morrissey should really stop making statements like this before all the votes have been counted, even if his motivation is simply to play down the Obama victory. ...
It’s the Republicans, Stupid
Patterico's Pontifications —
... Ed Morrissey noticed that 7 million GOP voters stayed home or switched to Obama and, like Dr. Helen, Morrissey thinks conservatism is the answer and not the problem: ...
State of apathy
Stubborn Facts —
... Cap'n Ed notices something odd about the numbers. He's right: for all the noise about how this is a massive election, about how Barack will never allow you to go back to your lives as before and so on ad nauseum, turnout dropped. ...
Ed Morrisey is bad at math
Nitpicker —
He writes: This morning, after having absorbed the substantial victory of Barack Obama, I noticed a couple of interesting items in the data. Barack Obama certainly won this race, but he won it with just a little more votes than George Bush won in his re-election bid, and the turnout models came up short. In 2004, Bush beat John Kerry by winning 62.04 million votes. In 2008, Obama won 62.443 million, a gain of only 400,000. In 2004, Kerry garnered 59.028 million votes; John McCain only got 55.386 million. That means this election saw 3.24 million fewer votes ...
Special Ed: Nation Apathetic about Obama, Counting Innumerately
Whiskey Fire —
... Silly. Allow Mr C. Morrissey to disabuse you of such foolishness. (Please do not tell him though that he is comparing final totals from 2004 to as yet incomplete totals from 2008, as not all ballots are counted the morning after the election, and that this is the not exactly a secret, except to people who don't know what they are talking about.) ...
“The Longest Wet Kiss in American History”
The Wide Awake Cafe —
... I’ve been going through the national and individual state vote data and have discovered something interesting. Contrary to what some are asserting, although John McCain lost almost seven million voters from 2004 he didn’t lose them in the southern states he won. ...
Numbers Are Fun Until Someone Loses an Eye
If I Ran the Zoo —
How many times now have I told Special Ed: "For the love of god, man, stay away from numbers! Numbers are not a toy for kids; they're for grown-ups who know how to use them. If you keep playing around with them you're just going to hurt yourself." And does he listen? Nope: In 2004, Bush beat John Kerry by winning 62.04 million votes. In 2008, Obama won 62.443 million, a gain of only 400,000. In 2004, Kerry garnered 59.028 million votes; John McCain only got 55.386 million. That means this election saw 3.24 million fewer votes than four years ago. ...
