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(D) Alexis King
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(D) Jerry DiTullio
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CO-01 (Denver)
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(D) Yadira Caraveo
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October 29, 2008 01:10 AM UTC
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Doesn’t the public understand that according to Palin, Obama’s a communist? That according to no less than McCain’s esteemed foreign policy expert Joe the Plumber, Obama will be the death of Israel?
What’s WRONG with these people?
Ahhh, those Mississippi voters were always a bunch of communists anyway. Just ask Joe the McCain.
It doesn’t matter at this point. The GOP brand is as tainted Chinese baby formula. The Dems could nominate Mao Tse-Tung, and he’d be running even with McCain.
On this one, I agree with Kos. I think they are propping up traditional states more for propaganda than for electoral votes. If the money could be better spent in a state with more electoral votes, they’d be spending it there. The fact that they aren’t indicates just how badly they are losing in traditional GOP strongholds.
I mean, let’s get real here. If McCain is losing states like Montana, he has long since lost this race.
They simply have no choice but to go for it in traditional states. Still, I’m keeping the champaign corked. There are still wild cards, including race, voter supression, and whether the new voters will take the last step.
After the last 8 years, I’m not counting my chickens before they hatch. 🙂
But I’m starting to think that VA is going to go heavily for Obama, and the early vote numbers suggest NC might be within reach.
But I think not only North Carolina is in reach, but also possibly Georgia as well. I think it won’t be a landslide by the 375+ EV definition, but it will be a solid win.
What was the biggest electoral college blowout in history ? Just curious.
Ronald Reagan in 1984–won every state except for MN (mondale’s home state)
Wasn’t he the only president besides Washington who had no real opponent?
but the largest EV margin was FDR in 1936 – 523 to 8 over Alf Landon.
And Washington was only elected 69-34-9-6-6.
….are people here talking crazy, then?
given the way EV’s were done back then, Washington essentially got one from every voter…thus, a sweep.
231 : 1 : 3
…pardon my French. 🙂
Not the biggest by margin of votes, but he carried 49/50 states.
Not even David thinks Obama could do that.
he didn’t even carry his home state.
There are many different ways to cut this question.
George Washington got 100.0% of the electoral vote, twice in 1788 and 1792.
James Monroe got 99.57% of the electoral vote 231 to 1 for John Quincy Adams (Who was not an official candidate).
Franklin D. Roosevelt is next up with 98.49% 523 to 8 for Alf Landon in 1936.
Then the sainted Reagan got 97.58% and 523 to 13 for Walter Mondale.
The largest number of electoral votes was Ronald Reagan, of course, since two states and DC were added to the electoral vote after Roosevelt was president. He got 525 votes to 13, a margin of 512 votes.
Roosevelt got the largest electoral margin with a win by 515 electoral votes 523 to 8 and this is also the second largest total of electoral votes.
Nixon got 520 electoral votes while George McGovern got 17 and John Hospers got 1 (Though he was not an official candidate). He won every state except for Massachusetts and he also did not take DC.
In some ways, though, Ronald Reagan had a bigger win in 1980 when he got 489 to 49 because it wasn’t clear that he was winning until the last week.
And finally the most lopsided win was Lyndon B. Johnson who only got 486 EVs in 1964 to 49. But it was really lopsided in the popular vote with him taking 61.1% of the popular vote, the largest margin of victory ever. If a candidate could manage that percentage today he almost undoubtedly would be the only president since Washington to take every state.
Georgia for Obama?!
Please, people. This is still a black man we’re talking about. Don’t lose your damn mind.
aren’t there a lot of black people in those states?
but it is still white Republicans who are counting the votes…
from McClatchy we have:
Hayes has lost 10 points for saying liberals hate America. Yet that was the core of the winning Republican message for the last 30+ years. As recently as ’04 it was a big winner for Republicans.
Yet now in North Carolina it costs a Republican 10 points. Part of this I think is that with the fast direct dissemination of the web this gets to people before anyone can spin it and so they go yuck.
But part of it also is that most voters now understand that we all love America. And that this kind of crap hurts us.
If the ones spewing division and hate lose, that changes how people will conduct campaigns. So goodbye Musgrave, Hayes, Bachman – hello a bit nicer campaigns.
As Palin was called a whack job by a McCain aide, I’d lump Hayes and Buchmann in the same group with her since they’re all making the same tired, pathetic, and dishonest argument.
NJ-05’s Scott Garrett is another one who might be losing because of the hate. One of Sen. Cornyn’s staffers called Garrett “a nut” the other day – and said it to Garrett’s opponent’s daughter.
Mayor Bloomberg just endorsed Garrett’s opponent, Dennis Shulman – a blind rabbi who Garrett has tried to link to Hamas, Iran, terrorists… and of course the ever-popular ACORN, Cindy Sheehan, and tax hikes.
If Congress is short a few of these nutcases next term the world will be a better place for it.
Go to the Colorado GOP website. This is sad.
Last news release is August 12.
Last Wadhams blog entry is July 24.
The only candidates listed on the entire site are John McCain, Bob Schaffer, & John Lerew.
They still have a link up for the “upcoming 2008 Republican National Convention.” And another link to “win a trip to the convention.”
It looks like they actually gave up back in August. They are in total disarray.
I think it was early 2006.
The Dem website was just like what you described, the state Pub site was well done and current.
My, what a difference two years makes.
Under Pat Waak and, sorry I can’t recall Mike’s last name, the Dems joined the 21st century. Mike gets a big tip of the hat on that.
I worked with him when we rehosted the Douglas County Democrats web site on the Colorado Dems server. Mike is a very sharp guy and a pleasure to work with.
I thought it was Weissman, but since we just visited my folk’s doctor named Wiseman, I wasn’t sure if my head was playing tricks on me. Again.
Yes, I’ve had a number of interactions with Mike and he is sharp as a scalpel. A great hire.
I hope one of the dailies or Westword picks that up.
I don’t know what’s in that Kool-Aid you’ve been drinking, but I hope it doesn’t make others as complacent as you appear to be, cause them to stop hustling, and ultimately affect the outcome of the election.
that people being happy means they aren’t working hard… and to be honest, I get sick of the happy police, sometimes.
when I saw that Arizona is “leaning” toward McCain. I checked Realclearpolitics.com. The link below is interesting. While the polling shows McCain still winning in Arizona, check out the Rasmussen numbers. From McCain up 21% a month ago to up 5% this week. Wow.
http://www.realclearpolitics.c…
The Media and Obama are going to make fools out of the residents of Colorado! Don’t sacrifice your Liberty and YOUR WALLET! Call the LA Times and ask them about the Khalidi! Watch these clips instead of tonights 30-minute Obamathon and GET INFORMED AMERICA!
http://therealbarackobama.word…
Now go back to McCainland and collect your troll points
Honey, there’s another troll over here! Someone get the pie.
And even more ridiculous than the Ayers and Wright fiascos.
Obama is pro-Israel. Jewish Floridians already know that.
It’s amazing though, that McCain still isn’t talking about the economy. All he can do is bring up the latest 6 degrees of separation attack on Obama.
gimme a break. Mississippi is absolutely not in play. Don’t be a bunch of koolaid drinkers, people! The best way to read the poll aggregates here is to look at the all in scan, not in average. Go to fivethirtyeight and look at the MS column. There are seven MS polls and not a single one of them gives McCain less than an 8% edge.
On a different side of it find CO and see that every single poll has Obama winning. Percentages of individual polls matter not at all, but the aggregate of many different polls by many different pollsters is very telling of Obama’s position here.
The truly close states are the ones where both candidates are mixing in different polls. Those states are FL, IN, MO, NC, ND (!!), OH, and VA. The beautiful thing for Mr. Obama is that every one of those should be R lock states.