While it'll be excruciating to live with him in our face for the next four years, he'd better fail to use the word "mandate." And then there's his 3 and a half million popular vote margin, which is accounted for by just 5 states (Texas accounts for nearly half). He won: Texas by 1,600,000 Alabama by 500,000 Georgia by 500,000 Indiana by 500,000 Oklahoma by 400,000 Just those 5 above account for his whole margin, so the rest had equal Kerry margins on the other side: Utah by 400,000 Kansas by 300,000 Kentucky by 300,000 Nebraska, by 250,000 AND, he only won states like Nevada, Colorado, Arkansas, West Virginia by less than a 100,000, which is a thin line between it having gone completely the other way. |