Barack Obama's margin of victory now up to 8 million votes or 7 percent

[CreekDog]

http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/results/president/

65,445,394 53%

57,446,223 46%

and they still have about 3 million votes left to count in California. :bounce:

[tekisui]

1. That looks like a mandate.

[Callalily]

2. Very impressive!

Yes, the people have spoken.

[Fluffdaddy]

3. Nice

[tekisui]

4. If the 61% winning rate in CA holds, that'll be another 1,830,000 votes.

67,275,394 or near it.

[Tiggeroshii]

5. I'm still keeping holding my prediction

that he'll be leading by 9 points after all the votes are counted. Which will be quite a while. But I think it'll happen: 54-45

[Hepburn]

6. Political capiltal to spend?

Hmmmmm....for some reason, tha phrase comes to mind!

[Solomon]

7. But, but, but. the "no mandate" people are saying that

there are the same number of voters this time as in 2004. I don't understand how this can be unless they suppressed about 20 million votes. More people voted in 2004 than in 2000, but the same number voted in 2008 as in 2004? Something's not adding up.

I think it was a bigger blowout than 7%. A whole lot of votes didn't get counted somehow.

[unblock]

9. or they fabricated votes in previous elections, and didn't in this one

[texpatriot2004]

8. landslide nm

[nyc 4 Biden]

10. It's Official!

M A N D A T E