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