"Dave LaCourse" wrote in message
...
When I awoke Wednesday morning, I was completely
surprised to see how well Bush did with a good majority of the electoral
votes,
and a whopping 3.5 million more in the popular vote. He didn't beat
Kerry; he
kicked the mush out of him.



I wouldn't classify that as a 'mushing', Dave. That was actually the closest
election (except for the other one) since Carter beat Ford in 1976. Here are
the differences (from the Federal Register site)
http://www.archives.gov/federal_regi...ge/scores.html :

1996: Clinton def. Dole by 7,774,396
1992: Clinton def. Bush by 5,805,911
1988: Bush def. Dukakis by 6,890,000
1984: Reagan def. Mondale by 16,878,000
1980: Reagan def. Carter by 8,417,992

And considering that the amount of votes cast was much smaller in all of
those elections, the differential of this weeks vote was actually pretty
tiny. "Mushings" are what Reagan dealt Mondale. Gave him two black eyes, if
the pictures are any indication.


--riverman