November 05, 2008

Obama's win was no landslide *Updated

No doubt in the coming days and weeks we will be hearing the word mandate. To put a little perspective on the vote count and to illustrate what a real mandate looks like, take a look at the map depicting the landslide vote Reagan received in 1980.

This my friends is a what a landslide electoral mandate looks like:


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*Update: The MSM didn't waste any time. From AP via Yahoo News: "Barack Obama swept to victory as the nation's first black president Tuesday night in an electoral college landslide that overcame racial barriers as old as America itself." (My emphasis)

Here is the Obama "electoral landslide" map.


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Posted by Ziva at November 5, 2008 12:50 AM

Comments

Reverse the colors, lest it confuse the kiddies on the left. "Whaddaya mean Carter didn't win? The maps blue!" :-)

Posted by: jluix [TypeKey Profile Page] at November 5, 2008 01:15 AM

That was before the media switched the real color of the Democrat party -- RED, as in Soviet Red -- to blue.

Posted by: George L. Moneo [TypeKey Profile Page] at November 5, 2008 01:29 AM

Perhaps this map, circa 1980 was more aware of its surroundings. In my mind Red, is the color for the dems.

Posted by: Ziva Sahl [TypeKey Profile Page] at November 5, 2008 01:29 AM

I've always suspected that was an MSM intentional jab at conservatives, branding us REDs.

Posted by: jluix [TypeKey Profile Page] at November 5, 2008 03:47 AM


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