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Originally Posted by PsyOps  I'm not sure I completely agree with this. If you look at the popular vote (52.7% - 46%) McCain didn't do at that bad. When yo look at the county-by-county vote it is predominately red. This election boiled down to demographics. I'm not all that certain any of the GOP candidates that were up would have made any difference. |
Karl Rove chalks it up to :
1. 4 million Republicans didn't vote.
2. Higher than average black vote, which went for Obama and
3. McCain got a much smaller percentage of the Hispanic vote.
4. Higher percentage of Democrats showed up.