Obama Could Be First Democrat To Get A Majority Of The Popular Vote Since 1976

• November 3, 2008

This is interesting, and not for the reason liberals will think it’s interesting.

Barack Obama is on track to be the first Democrat to win a majority of the vote since 1976, according to the final pre-election poll by the Pew Research Center.
Obama leads John McCain 52 to 46 percent, by Pew’s measure, which projects that McCain will win undecided voters by a slight margin.

So who was the Democrat in 1976 who got a majority of the popular vote? Jimmy Carter, who beat Gerald Ford in his capacity as the GOP’s sacrificial lamb offered up after Nixon and others destroyed the public’s trust in Republicans.
Sound familiar? Of course it does. I wouldn’t cast Bush in the Nixon role, but certainly the American public has lost its faith in the modern Republican party because of scandal (DeLay, Ney, Foley, etc.) and the abandonment of the conservative principles Republicans were put in power to pursue. Republicanism, as a brand, is supposed to represent limited government. Lower taxes. Less regulation. Less involvement of government in the lives of citizens. Over the last eight years President Bush, and a lot (though certainly not all) Republicans in Congress haven’t been living up to that. So now they’re being punished.
And Barack Obama is the beneficiary. Just as Jimmy Carter was the beneficiary in 1976.
Of course, after four years of Carter Americans had had it with liberalism and elected Ronald Reagan. I wouldn’t be surprised at all to see Obama, who I think will probably win this election, suffer the same fate.

Tags: Domestic Issues, Politics

http://ndgoon.blogspot.com/ goon

I am really ready for this election to be over. I am sick and tired of seeing all of these misleading polls and the MSM trying to Limp NOBAMA across the finish line. I am sick and tired of people fawning over a candidate with a razer thin Resume. It will be nice to see how this shakes out.
http://boyddrivefollies.blogspot.com/ Good Ol Boy

Do you think McCain is just being used by the conservatives in the Republican Party as a vessel to get Palin into the White House? I ask because they sure have asked McCain to give up on his convictions and beliefs, almost sacrificially.

” give up on his convictions and beliefs”? Are you effin’ kidding me man? McCain is 99% staying on his convictions, wrong as they are, and the 1% made up of his views on shamnesty would come out soon enough if he is elected. We are faced with voting for McCain who stuck his finger in conservatism’s eye every chance he got vs. voting for O’Bama, who just plain gave the American way of life the finger. That the uneducated are voting for O’Bama is a given, but what choice do we with more than a brain stem get?
As far as Sarah Palin’s inclusion in the race, I wouldn’t flatter the Republicans with the proposition that they could gin up a conspiracy like that. She holds a lot of promise, but I would like to see her get more experience to go with her apparent good instincts.
Jerry

Even if that doesn’t play out, I’m sure the Republican Justice Department can work together with the right-wing Dirty Tricks Brigade to steal this one too.

“ANY” proof of that, Dopey?
http://www.fec.gov/pubrec/fe2000/prespop.htm C. Harris

Rob, I think I partially agree with you for the first time. I am an Obama supporter, but my dislike of the Republicans is stronger than my like of the Democrats.

But, even if Obama gets a majority of the popular vote, McCain could still be president. Look at how that almost happened in 2000:
Al Gore (Democrat)50,999,897 48.38%
George W. Bush (Republican)50,456,002 47.87%
A couple million voters spread over the right 5-6 states this year, and it could happen.

Even if that doesn’t play out, I’m sure the Republican Justice Department can work together with the right-wing Dirty Tricks Brigade to steal this one too.

Do you think McCain is just being used by the conservatives in the Republican Party as a vessel to get Palin into the White House? I ask because they sure have asked McCain to give up on his convictions and beliefs, almost sacrificially.
http://sayanythingblog.com/ likwidshoe

Sparkie Arbuckle – heh. lesson not learned, eh fellas?

Question: why do you attempt to troll people on what they have already said?

It makes no sense.

What happened to you, man? You used to be a fairly astute commenter. Even when we disagreed, I knew that I could usually count on you to give me a run for my money or make me think about something in a new way. Now? Come on, man…
http://rawdawgb.blogspot.com/ all-mi-T

folks think Obama got this on lock. dont sleep its like Dewy revisited
Lioncourt

oversees the Alaskan National Guard and has a higher security clearance as the Governor of Alaska than any one else in this race.

You only say that because of your ignorance of security clearances. She does not have a higher clearance than the others.
JazzyKat

I wish everyone would stop putting Barack Hussein Obama in office before the election, also!
JazzyKat

Sarah Palin has more executive experience than McCain, Biden or Obama. Most Presidents serve in executive positions as Governors before they are Presidents. In fact only twice in history have sitting U.S. Senators become President — Warren G. Harding and John F. Kennedy. She balanced the budget of Alaska, cut earmarks in half, oversees the Alaskan National Guard and has a higher security clearance as the Governor of Alaska than any one else in this race.

The sexist remarks because she is a Woman Governor, is sickening. If it was a man Governor named VP on the D or R ticket, the slams against experience would never be part of the discussion.
docdave

Even if that doesn’t play out, I’m sure the Republican Justice Department can work together with the right-wing Dirty Tricks Brigade to steal this one too.

The election isn’t for a day and you’re already crying fowl. Must not be too confident of an Obama victory. If McCain wins it will be because the Dems with the help of ACORN couidn’t steal it.
di butler

Amen, likwid!

I expect more out of Hanny than to say things like “old guy and retarded parrot.” I thought he was above that. He is starting to sound like Ellinas.
http://sayanythingblog.com/readers/author/sparkiearbuckle sayanything-81

are you insinuating that mccain and palin are but sacrificial lambs? or sacrificial old guy & the retarded parrot?
http://sayanythingblog.com/readers/author/sparkiearbuckle sayanything-81

Jimmy Carter, who beat Gerald Ford in his capacity as the GOP’s sacrificial lamb offered up after Nixon and others destroyed the public’s trust in Republicans.

heh. lesson not learned, eh fellas?

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