Many Democrats voted for Bush — and now know a little bit about how it feels to be a Republican in the eyes of the Mainstream Media
On Tuesday, 9 million more votes were cast than in 2000. On Tuesday, Bush received 8.3 million votes more than he did in 2000. If those 8.3 million Bush voters who weren’t there for Dubya in 2000 all came from the big pool of new voters, then Democrats should start getting ready to pack it up and move to France. Why? Because a Republican president has increased his ballot total by 15 percent simply by creating new Republican voters who didn’t exist before. This is potentially catastrophic for the Democratic Party. It will go into the next two national elections (in 2006 and 2008) with a Republican electorate 15 percent larger than it was four years ago. But look. It’s highly unlikely that every new Bush voter came from the overall newvoter pool. It’s safer to assume that new voters split the way the overall electorate split, 51-48 in favor of the president.
Under this scenario, John Kerry deserves congratulations for receiving about 4.3 million votes that didn’t exist when Al Gore ran for president four years ago. But before Democrats start sending Kerry congratulatory telegrams, they should consider this: Bush only got 4.7 million from the new-voter pool, then his historic total means he got another 3.6 million votes from people who voted Democratic in 2000.
I daresay from listening to all the abuse being heaped on the intolerant, hate-filled Republicans by the media, that these Democrats know today a little bit about what it feels like to be a Republican in the eyes of the left.
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