Former RNC chairman Haley Barbour said the election was “pretty close to a tie.” -- Uh-uh.

[bigtree]

from the Nation: http://www.thenation.com/blog/171178/obamas-3-million-vote-electoral-college-landslide-majority-states-mandate


Obama's 3 Million Vote, Electoral College Landslide, Majority of States Mandate

When all is said and done:

1. Barack Obama will have won an overwhelming majority in the Electoral College, a daunting majority of the popular vote and a majority of the nation’s states—including most of the country’s largest states and states in every major region of the republic: New England, the mid-Atlantic, the Great Lakes, the South, the Southwest, the Mountain West and the West.

2. Barack Obama will have won more popular votes than any Democratic candidate for president in history—except Barack Obama in 2008.

3. Barack Obama is the first Democratic president to win more than 50 percent of the popular vote in a re-election run since Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1944.

4. Barack Obama is the only Democratic candidate for president since FDR to twice win more than 50 percent of the national vote.

5. Barack Obama has, in both of his presidential runs, won a higher percentage of the national vote than any Democratic nominee since Lyndon Johnson in his 1964 landslide victory.


read more: http://www.thenation.com/blog/171178/obamas-3-million-vote-electoral-college-landslide-majority-states-mandate

[Dem2TheCore]

1. Tie? Next they'll just claim Mitt really won.

Dumbasses!

[LisaL]

2. CNN probably still thinks its too close to call.

[SoCalDem]

4. They're waiting for more polling numbers to come in

John's standing by his magic board

[BeyondGeography]

5. Blitzer: No clear winner

[calico1]

3. The GOP uses different math.

When Bush won by losing the popular vote, that was a mandate.

But this is practiaclly a tie.

[tanyev]

10. Base R.

[Island Blue]

6. Yes, and Haley Barbour

is pretty close to being a male Super Model.

[exboyfil]

7. Pres. Obama has won the most

votes of any Presidential candidate in history. More than Bush II, Reagan, Nixon (in three runs) and FDR in four runs.

Obama 130 M
Bush II 112 M
Clinton 92 M
Reagan 98 M
Nixon 113 M
FDR 104 M

[WI_DEM]

8. Bottom line--did he say this in 2004?

When Bush won by three million votes and a narrower electoral vote--286-251. No, Bush himself called his win a 'mandate.'

[alcibiades_mystery]

9. Here's another: Obama beat Romney by more votes than Bush beat Kerry

Bush beat Kerry by 3,012,166 votes.

Obama's margin as of right now is 3,072,510.

Virtually a tie, yeah?

[HopeHoops]

11. He's still alive?

Dead or alive, that still doesn't make him right for the first time ever.

[hobbit709]

12. Close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades

This was neither. And what does Boss Hogg know about anything.