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2 Dec, 2008
11:44pm
Clear Mandate
On Open Left: Still Counting & Counting & Counting & …
Large Obama mandate: Obama received votes from the second highest percentage of the American population ever. … currently 22.62% of the population voted for Obama. The all-time leader was Reagan in 1984, when he received the vote of 23.09% of the population. With up to another million votes to be added, Obama might still pass that total.
Huge turnout: Overall, more than 131 million people voted, or 61.6% of the voting eligible population. All in all, probably about 63% of the voting eligible population attempted to vote, considering spoiled ballots. That is the highest voter turnout since the voting age was lowered to 18.
Repudiation of 1994 “revolution”: There will be [almost] the same number of Democrats in the House and Senate combined—316—as there were in 1993-1994
And there’s more! You really must read the full article.
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