Did Obama Really Win?
Barack Obama won the popular vote and more importantly, the electoral vote. But John McCain won more territories. Reminds me of the 2000 elections when Al Gore received half a million more popular votes than George W Bush, but lost by five electoral votes and a bunch of dangling chads in Florida.
2008 Presidential Election Results by County
Blue = Obama, Red = McCain
Source: Mark Newman, Department of Physics, University of Michigan
Blue = Obama, Red = McCain
Source: Mark Newman, Department of Physics, University of Michigan
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(siiigghhhhhh) Like him or not, he’s our Pres. for the next four years. We need to pray for his leadership of our country.
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I like Obama. I just think it’s interesting how easily he won even though it looks like he lost on most maps of election results breakdown.
yes, unfortunately, that’s how electing the president works out. funny isn’t it. makes you wonder sometimes. hehe.
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Funny it is. Obama won the urban areas he needed to win. I wonder why he didn’t do as well in rural areas.
This map is quite interesting, however like any statistics, it can be misleading because in my opinion, when you look at the all of the maps in question, this is the only one that makes it look like McCain was favored. Just my 2 cents, that and 75 cents won’t even buy a cup of coffee at 7 11.
I agree, the county map is misleading because it doesn’t take population into account. A lot of rural areas are very small population wise. I think McCain won more states too, but Obama won most of the big electoral states.
That’s like us in Canada. There are more people crammed into a tiny area in the east. There are less of us in the west so we can only hope the east votes for what we want and yet we are so different on this half of Canada. We know things need to change but not sure exactly. how.
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Lucky for us, we have several big states to prevent one state from deciding every thing in an election.
I don’t claim to understand the electoral votes process. It seems like it may have outlived it’s usefulness. I don’t know. I just think the majority voices should be the ones we listen to.
Hugs,
Holly
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At least get rid of the all-or-none electoral votes. Doesn’t seem fair to award all the state’s electoral votes to one person if that person barely won the state’s popular votes. Makes more sense to split the electoral votes in each state.
McCain won our county by 12 votes.
It’s funny how elections work. I’ll be honest - I don’t quite get it.
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Kinda of screwy like the primaries where delegates don’t have to vote for the candidate they suppose to vote for.
Looked at like that, it sure makes you wonder how he won!
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I think it’s because cows and birds were not allowed to vote in the rural areas. They can’t vote until the 2012 elections.
for some reason this image makes me worry !! I hope this is all going to be ok …. take care ! le
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I’m not worry. Obama did get the vote of most Americans. He just can’t say this is Obama country in most areas.
Yes. Let’s say most of the blue areas are more populated and thus, represent more people. Not sure if that is actually true. Could be.
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I think it’s true. There’s just a lot of rural areas that didn’t vote for Obama.
I love that map. Down in So Cal there is the little bit of red. Orange county where I live, one of the last Republican bastians left…
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You’re surrounded!
If sheep and cattle could vote the map the amount of red on the map would mean McCain was president, but the human population of the US is very unevenly spread and there are big stretches of red with only a couple of residents per square mile. Those blue areas contain a lot of people!
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Yes! Exactly. That’s what I’ve been saying for years. There is a reason against it, but I cannot remember what it was. Getting too old I guess(29).