Journal dedazo's Journal: Obama Landslide? 2
Since election night I've noticed that many stories about Barack Obama tend to characterize his victory as a "landslide". I saw one just now on ABC News.
I'm truly happy Obama won. I'm truly happy McCain lost. While I consider myself a moderate conservative, the US needed change badly at this point in history, and I believe the election provided that.
But calling it a landslide is disingenuous to say the least. According to WP, Obama nailed 52.9% of the popular vote, while McCain got 45.7%. That's not a landslide by any measure, in any election.
Now if people are referring to the electoral vote (365 vs 173), sure, that's sort of a landslide, but it's still disingenuous, because essentially the same group of people that are calling it a landslide were the ones bemoaning how broken the electoral system is in 2000 and 2004 when Bush won by way of Florida and Ohio.
I don't know why, I just hate people who do that sort of thing. The same people who claimed that the 2004 election was "stolen" by the Republican party were strangely silent when the democrats kicked ass in the 2006 mid-terms. Apparently the GOP forgot to steal that one? And the same people who claimed Bush was going to do something evil to re-elect himself (remember the stories about troops being brought in to the US, the pending attack on Iran, the martial law, etc) were also strangely silent on 5 November.
I guess I just hate conspiracy theorists and agitator nuts. If you have to say something, make sure it has some backing in reality. Otherwise, please shut the fuck up.
moof (Score:1)
I guess I just hate conspiracy theorists and agitator nuts. If you have to say something, make sure it has some backing in reality.
Me too. Like for example people who say "the US needed change badly at this point in history, and I believe the election provided that." :)
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The believe part being the critical aspect of that paragraph, yah <g>