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The US Presidential race is over.  John Kerry called Bush shortly after 11:00 am, and offered his concession speech just after 1:00 PM eastern.  Bush won both the electoral and popular votes, with 274 electoral votes confirmed (Races in Wisconson, Iowa, and New Mexico have not yet been officially called).  Bush won the popular vote with 58,884,582 (51% total), and had the highest popular votes of any president in US history.  For full results, consult your preferred news site.

Anyone who wants to rant, rave, cheer or jeer, feel free to do it here.

shit another 4 years with that arse

For the US, most likely. Good bye, fair country. We knew ye well.

Even though for the most part I'm nuetral and indifferent, I found myself somewhat silently rooting for Bush just because of all the college students blindly voting Kerry out of peer pressure, or because "war is bad". If you vote one side or the other after thinking about it, then fine, good for you, good job, regardles of which side you voted for, but I can't stand all these kids who pick sides without really looking at the issues, just because it's cool to be a politically rebelious, anti-establishment college student. If Kerry had won, they'd be voting against him in 2008 just because he's the current president and you gotta "screw The Man".

Thanks for the sweeping generalization, Gnam.

Theres a lot in what Gnam says

I voted against Bush simply because the top diplomat of the country shouldn't be known for also butchering the English language during their speeches.

lol

I voted for bush because i didnt want the united states to become the united socialist soviet republics of america. I think kerry is a socialist and i dont want socialism for america. If anyone else wants it for themselves that fine i just dont want it here.

Not a generalization, a fact. I go to art school; I'm am surounded by these people.

So you're also not excluding yourself from that generalization.

A little more on-topic, here's something I find quite interesting.

(http://images.usatoday.com/news/politicselections/elections2004/_images/2004countymap3.gif)
http://www.usatoday.com/news/politicselect...4/countymap.htm (http://www.usatoday.com/news/politicselections/vote2004/countymap.htm)

It's a county-by-county map of how the voting went in the US Presidential race.

In addition to the Presidency, the Republican party picked up 4 senate seats, 6 house seats, and picked up governerships in Indiana, Missouri, and Utah.  One of the senate seats lost by the Democrats was the senate minority leader, Tom Daschle.  Also, for the 11 states with gay marriage bans on the ballots, all 11 states passed them with a fairly large margin.

It was more than just the presidency, the entire balance of power in government has shifted more towards the Republicans.  I'm curious as to what everyone thinks about all of this.

That map is not accurate. Ulster County in New York, which includes my hometown, went for Kerry, not for Bush.

Quite honestly, it seems that this election was won based on moral (read: religious) values, and not any of the real issues. This seriously bothers me, especially when the man elected claims to have his position ordained by God.

Pimping the Lord's name and being against gays appear to be the main reasons Bush was re-elected. Even after he was proven a liar, ruined some of the economy, started an illegal war, and sporked up international relations, it puzzles me why he was.

because americans dont like the change presidents during a war .

Makou:  Indeed, you are correct for your county.  I just checked Ulster County's (http://www.co.ulster.ny.us/election2004/president.html) governmental page.  There's always going to be a few errors in something like this as long as data is still trickling in, and unfortunately Usa Today hasn't seen fit to update the page with final results from every county.

Why wouldn't I exclude myself? I didn't vote for Kerry therefore there's no way I could be thinking according to the popular sentiment. If anything, I am more likely to question a view that's popular with my fellow students.

"For NASA, space is a high priority." --John Kerry
"Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children." --John Kerry (the grammar is so bad that it hurts to read that quote)
"It isn't pollution that's harming the environment, it's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it." --John Kerry (Look up "pollution" in the dictionary, tool)
"It's time for the human race to enter the solar system." --John Kerry (:lol: :lol:)
"The vast majority of immigrants come from outside this country." --John Kery
"If we do not succeed, we run the risk of failure." --John Kerry

What were you saying about the English language again?

Those are examples of redundancies, not absurdities, like these gems:

"I'm honored to shake the hand of a brave Iraqi citizen who had his hand cut off by Saddam Hussein." ?George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., May 25, 2004

"I think the American people ? I hope the American ?  I don't think, let me ? I hope the American people trust me." ?George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., Dec. 18, 2002

(Source: http://politicalhumor.about.com/library/blbushisms.htm (http://politicalhumor.about.com/library/blbushisms.htm))

LOL. These are absurdities if you ask me. It doesn't matter whether it's a gramatical error or reduncy, it's still ridiculous.