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Originally Posted by kane
You forget that the election is based on the electoral college ( I believe wrongly so but that is another debate for another time.) Kerry, a super liberal senator came within one state, Ohio, of beating Bush in that election.
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Didn't forget that at all. It's an electroal college map broken down by county rather than state.
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Originally Posted by kane
Also, many of those red areas have very few people in them. Rural areas tend to vote republican. If you add up all the people that live in the red areas and all the people that live in the blue you would find out it is pretty close in number.
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Not close enough to have won the election for Kerry. The rural people that voted Republican in the last election are not going to switch to Democrat because a woman and a black guy are running.