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Originally posted by 12clicks
hmmmmm, it looks like one party's platform gained about 3 million votes this year and the other didn't.
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I'll go you one better, just to prove I'm not TOTALLY blind and biased.
If you compare the 2000 election to this one Republicans picked up a gross total of about 9 million votes, while Democrats picked up a gross total of about 5 Million votes (50 mill Repubs in 2000 to 59 million this year, 51 million dems in 2000 to 56 mill this year).
Definate expansion for the Republicans this year, no doubt about it. But it still doesn't create an overwhelming 'mandate', as Rove claims. I mean, in 1984, Regan got 54 million votes. Things swing back and forth, depending more on the candidate and the issues than the party. I think gay rights and the war got Bush re-elected, not that 'everyone in America has seen the conservative light.' I mean, Nixon got 47 million, look how that turned out.
Come on, Man. When Rove himself comes out and says that the administration is going to use this 'mandate' to pursue a religious right agenda (constitutional ban of gay marriage), as one of his first primary statements, can you really blame us 'liberals' for thinking the religious right has itself firmly attached to the Republican Party?