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| It's finally official! Bush wins Iowa | |
| 2004-11-05 | |
| Iowa's seven electoral votes fell into President Bush's column Friday, making it the final state to be settled in this year's presidential election. Although there was little suspense about the outcome since Democratic nominee John Kerry conceded the election Wednesday, the shift sends a troubling signal to Democrats who are finding once-comfortable states in the Upper Midwest increasingly competitive. Bush laid claim to Iowa's electoral votes as county officials continued to count absentee and provisional ballots. By Friday, those totals showed Bush with 745,980 votes to Kerry's 732,764 and the number of votes remaining uncounted was far too small to change the outcome. Iowa has voted Democratic in every presidential election since 1984, but Bush put a high priority on winning back the state, including two campaign stops the day before the election. Along with Iowa, Republicans narrowly lost Wisconsin and Minnesota, putting in play three states that Democrats have counted as part of their political base.
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| Posted by:Steve |
| #7 A. Pigg I, A. Pigg II, A. Pigg III... proud family that one. ;) |
| Posted by: eLarson 2004-11-05 7:47:56 PM |
| #6 Kerry gave up on Iowa when, insulted by vegan terrorists, pig farmers refused to roduce uncounted and suppressed votes which had come from the stys on their farms, as they did four years earlier... |
| Posted by: BigEd 2004-11-05 6:52:01 PM |
| #5 DPA, I agree that the result didn't change, but W would have much more of a claim to a mandate if he had 38 more electoral votes (and Kerry 38 less). |
| Posted by: Tibor 2004-11-05 6:13:11 PM |
| #4 I think there was definetely shady stuff going on in this election. I'm concerned about those stories of votes being on machines in penn. before the election even started. Any word on that? I don't like the fact that these electronic voting machines have no way to check them... it's dangerous and frankly I don't understand why a decision to have it that way would ever be made. I have a bad feeling that both sides did illegal things to win the election. I don't believe either candidate knows or knew about it but I fear that people under them may have taken matters into their own hands in some cases. Either way I don't think it affected the outcome of this election, but in the future it might. |
| Posted by: Damn_Proud_American 2004-11-05 4:56:38 PM |
| #3 I assume you cheated Dr. White. I saw that spreadsheet, it was crooked and changeable, a veritable devils playground of bad choices and worse outcomes. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2004-11-05 4:50:41 PM |
| #2 Nailed it. I went 50 for 50 on this election. |
| Posted by: Steve White 2004-11-05 4:12:56 PM |
| #1 I would be willing to bet that Bush actually won Michigan and Pennsylvania. The Democratic shenaniganss in Philly and Pittsburgh and Detroit appeared to be widespread. |
| Posted by: Tibor 2004-11-05 4:08:32 PM |