Does this look like a mandate?

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Figures taken from the CSPAN elections 2004 webpage. Look how close Iowa, New Mexico, Florida, and Ohio are considering that the latter two have outstanding votes to count and evidence is emerging of possible fraud in some of the counts for optiscan, etc:

Kerry /Bush/Diff
Alabama 691,993/1,174,348/482,355
Alaska 151,876/86064/65,812
Arizona 735327/908211/172,884
Arkansas 566678/735327/168,649
Ca 5427055/ 4403495/1,023,560
Colorado 939586/1054695/115,109
Connect 847666/686923/160,743
Delaware 199887/171531/28,356
DC 183876/19007/164,869
Fla 3534609/3911824/377,215
GA 1345198/1889832/544,634
Hawaii 231318/194109/37,209
Idaho 180920/408354/ 227,434
Illinois 2826757/2313415/513,342
Indiana 960899/1474475/513,576
Iowa 732737/ 745970/13,233
Kansas 420846/717507/ 296,661
Kentucky 712903/1069451 /356,548
Louisiana 818211/1101710 /283,499
Maine 365089/309667/55,422
Maryland 1223813/951892/271,921
Mass 1793916 /1067163/726,753
Michigan 2471905/ 2306292/165,613
Minn 1443564/ 1345168/ 98,396
Miss 440255/ 666396/ 226,141
Missouri 1253879/1452715/198,836
Montana 173363/265473/ 92,110
Nebraska 234236/485766/ 251,530
Nevada 393372/414939/ 21,567
NH 340019/330848/ 9,171
NJ 1799320/1587494/211,826
NM 362340/370706/8,366
NY 3971059/2782457/1,188,602
NC 1484158/1910936/426,778
ND 195998 /110662/85,336
Ohio 2796147/2659664/136,483
Oklahoma 504077/959655/455,578
Oregon 890698/823210/67,488
Penn 2883833/2756361/127,472
RI 247407/161654/85,753
SC 650350 /924170/273,820
SD 149225/232545/ 83,320
Tenn 1033176/1381937/ 348,761
Texas 2827756/4519023/ 1,691,267
Utah 227286/612623/385,337
Vermont 183621/120710/62,911
Virginia 1396269/1662484/ 266,215
Washington 1166484/1002546/163,938
WV 321641/418151/96,510
Wisconsin 1488935/1477122/11,813
Wyoming 70620/167129/ 96,509

Totals 56,292,153/59,303,806/3,011,653
Total votes 115,595,959
% diff 2.6

[PATRICK]

1. Hey he won his first fraudulent election!

It might be self made, but it is a mandate of sorts. I am sure he is as whimsicla about this as LBJ was about his squeaker run for the Senate he won by a smear campaign. He always called that his "mandate" until JFK willed him an inheritance.

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2. Now looks like NM going for Kerry

with addition of absentee votes.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x959157