If Bush won Ohio, why is he less pop. than 6 "blue states"

[scoopmeister]

http://www.pnionline.com/dnblog/attytood/archives/002067.html

In fact, the president's approval rating in the Buckeye State is lower than both the national average (43 percent) and in Pennsylvania (42 percent), which you may recall was won by John Kerry on 11/02/04.

What's more, there are six other states that Kerry won last November where Bush is less unpopular than in Ohio: Maryland, Hawaii, New Hampshire, Washington, Oregon, and Minnesota.

But we thought that Bush won in Ohio.

Didn't he?

[Botany]

1. I live in Columbus OH .....

.... bush got his ass kicked here. The Gov has 19% approval rating too.

[LightningFlash]

2. Bush never fucking won Ohio.

Or Georgia, that was Ralph Reed's scam to increase the fundie vote by invisible "ballots". It was all a right-wing scam, Blackwell is who won Ohio. Through out-right stealing fraud and he laughed at the report it happened in other states!

:mad: :mad: :thumbsdown: :puke:

[YOY]

3. Evidently Rove's campagn smear policies

did just the trick. I talked to a number of suburbanites in the south of Cleveland area and they could only site "Bush is a better choice for leader." They truly believed that "Swiftboat crap" and that Osama was coming to eat their babies. Although they could point nothing positive that they liked about Dubya they really found Kerry "oh-so-more-distastefull."

Of course most of them only leave Cleveland to go to Orlando once every couple of years and most of the world remains a mystery to them.

[SammyWinstonJack]

5. Osama was coming to eat their babies?

I never heard that one. And bu$h** didn't win Ohio, at least not fair and square that is.

[YOY]

7. More like they were concerned that a "tear-wrist" attack would hit Ohio

Naturally the "baby eating" is not a literal interpretation of how a few fence balancers' gut reacted to Bush. To me, it represented the effectiveness of fascist fear mongering as a political tool.

Many were quite sure that the baddies were comming to perform some level of attack on their little corner of the States. (Yes, Little did they know that the real baddies were just using them to scare them into voting for Shub.) Why anyone would perform an act of terror in an area that is slowly dying on its own due to lack of funancial support and indistrial investment is a mystery to me.

Of course the election had more that its share of questionables in regards to the possibility of shady underdoings.

[trotsky]

6. That's reasonable, but one thing bothers me.

If people were not sold on Kerry, but were so lukewarm for *, why such record turnout in this election? They hated Kerry SO much that they just had to come out and vote AGAINST him? And on top of that, hated him so much that they made sure to vote FOR Bush and not some 3rd-party candidate?

Usually voters, when faced with the choice of two "evils," stay home and don't vote. This just doesn't make sense.

[wakeme2008]

4. And then there is Florida....

........................For...Against.For....Against
Florida........Bush.....41%....53%....46%......50%