Election Post-Mortem ... How the American vote was divided.

[GUNWOUNDS]

Some of this may come as no surprise but i thought it would be interesting to note how the american voters differed.

More males voted for Bush

More Women voted for Kerry

More Whites voted for Bush

More Blacks/Hispanics voted for Kerry

More people in the age-range of 30-60 voted for Bush

More people in the age range of 18-29 voted for Kerry

More people with an income of 50k or more voted for Bush

More people with an income of 50k or less voted for Kerry

More people with

[DukeLeto]

"More people with an income of 50k or more voted for Bush.

More people with an income of 50k or less voted for Kerry.

...

More Weekly churchgoers voted for Bush.

More Ocassional to Never churchgoers voted for Kerry."

This says all that needs to be said right there.  Bush got the votes of the rich and the ignorant.  Kerry got everone else.  Unfortunately, there are a lot of people that fit into those first two groups here in America.

[nemafakei]

That's grossly unfair, Leto.

What your analysis does tell us, Gunwounds is that Bush plays to a roughly single majority market. His policies need to be designed to benefit mostly one section of the population.

Kerry plays to a much more diverse audience. He's got to find what's good for people irrespective of their background.

It's a little bit of a simplification to call the Bush voter base unified, but you can see a general picture.

[DukeLeto]

Unfair?  Maybe.  But it's still accurate.  Unquestioning followers are ignorant of all the facts - certainly you can't argue that?

[slaphapy]

This says all that needs to be said right there.

[GUNWOUNDS]

[Gobalopper]

Don't forget that Bush is the first president since Roosevelt to increase his own vote and increase his majority in both the Senate and the House. He also increased his percentage in almost every state over the last election. And on top of that the Democrats lost their leader in the Senate which I don't think has happened in a long time?

[GUNWOUNDS]

some people are saying that with the republicans having a choke hold like this  ... that it may cause the democratic party to implode.  Either that or form a circular firing squad and blame each other.

[KALONY]

but these r the points wich makes me anxious (is it the right word?).

"only" the older rich white christians voted for him. we all know, what can happeb with that constellation... :-X

and another point is, that especialy those ppl still have a good life, and they dont wanna change anything. but what abaut the black the poor the uneducated and the young people? arent they more in need for a good politic?

and that bush increase his votes is probably, coz this was the biggest vote ever. when i remember right were there morer voters than ever in us history. so they both pushed and pushed til 1 of them won the fight, and of course with much seats in the senate, coz there were so much voters.

[Edric O]

well same could be said for democrats....  if you look above you will see Kerry got the majority of people with NO education and people with PhD's.  (hmmm...  educated rich people telling poor uneducated people what to do?)

One could interpret that as the rich/educated telling the poor/ignorant/uneducated people how to vote coupled with promises of welfare (i.e. other people's money).  Thats brainwashing on a massive scale with a pinch of bribery.

You're talking as if ALL uneducated people and ALL people with PhD's voted for Kerry, which is far from being the case. Remember that the votes were pretty evenly split.

According to CNN, just 50% of uneducated people voted for Kerry - as opposed to 49% of those same uneducated people voting for Bush. That is such a small difference that it's practically irrelevant. Using your line of thought, I could easily argue that the Bush-supporting super-rich brainwashed those 49% of poor uneducated people to vote for a man who will destroy their hopes to rise out of poverty and who would be more than willing to let them starve to death if he could get away with it.

So your accusations can swing right back at you. Be more careful next time.

[GUNWOUNDS]

You're talking as if ALL uneducated people and ALL people with PhD's voted for Kerry, which is far from being the case. Remember that the votes were pretty evenly split.

According to CNN, just 50% of uneducated people voted for Kerry - as opposed to 49% of those same uneducated people voting for Bush. That is such a small difference that it's practically irrelevant. Using your line of thought, I could easily argue that the Bush-supporting super-rich brainwashed those 49% of poor uneducated people to vote for a man who will destroy their hopes to rise out of poverty and who would be more than willing to let them starve to death if he could get away with it.

So your accusations can swing right back at you. Be more careful next time.

*sigh*

[Dante]

It seems to me that most (note: most) of the groups that voted for Kerry are the groups that have, at some point in history, been oppressed.

Women, Blacks, Hispanics, young people, poor people, educated people, minority religions...

Regular/First time voting doesn't matter in this case, and weekly churchgoers are Bush's foundation group anyway. So what can we glean from this?

...That the people in these groups are afraid of being oppressed again by having their rights curtailed. They know that their predecessors were oppressed, and that means a lot to them.

Of course not all women voted for Kerry, and neither did all black people or young people. But the majority did.

[Anathema]

More people with an income of 50k or more voted for Bush

More people with an income of 50k or less voted for Kerry

More people with

[Gobalopper]

Another interesting percentage:

The USA Today exit poll shows Hispanics, who had voted for Al Gore by 65 percent to 35 percent, supported Kerry by only 55 to 43. Since Hispanics accounted for 12 percent of the vote, their 10-point shift meant a net gain for Bush of 2.4 percent

[slaphapy]

Another interesting percentage:

I was going to mention something about that but i wasn't entirely sure it was true, after all i think its about the only reason he won New Mexico is because he influenced more hispanics.

[alchemi2]

These statements are irrelevant without the back up data!!!

To say most voted for one means nothing without knowing the proportion.

ie 101 phds vote Kerry 100 phds vote Bush, ah Most vote Kerry but less than 1% difference is irrelevant. You can't draw conclusion on that kind of data.

Americans are known for their nation pride and self belief so a major factor in Bush vote, could be that rest of world slagged Bush off so injurying that pride and Americans voted Bush to show the world that they don't give a damn what other think. As valid an arguement as any here. :)

[GUNWOUNDS]

Americans are known for their nation pride and self belief so a major factor in Bush vote, could be that rest of world slagged Bush off so injurying that pride and Americans voted Bush to show the world that they don't give a damn what other think. As valid an arguement as any here. :)

True we could have elected him out of spite.