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Marked in Pgh on Monday, November 10, 2008 5:57:59 PM
Despite the News Media spin about the great Obama victory on Nov. 4, 2008; he did not have a landslide victory in the Democrats' much vaunted popular vote as a result of his magnetism. George W. Bush, certainly not a dynamic speaker and after four years of being called an idiot, a frat boy by the News Media; still won re-election in 2004 with almost 51% of the popular vote. Obama won on Tuesday with just 53% of the popular vote. So much for a popular landslide. McCain still received around 46% of the popular vote in the same contest, even as we were carrying our own quaterback throughout the campaign. Most of those votes were actually for Plin, who was only a known factor since the convention. Palin, like the rest of us, is not going away. It does not bode well for any Obama legacy or the elction of 2012, even before the inevitable let down of his presidency.