ONLY 1/3 Of 300 MILLION People VOTED!!!!!!!

by **J The Kidd** Thu Nov 06, 2008 4:20 pm

This is in response to those who have been talking about their assertions that the “citizens of America” voted for Barack Obama by a landslide. The real numbers hardly support this.

* Black AMERICANS make up 31% of registered voters. Only 13% of those voted for Obama

* Out of 300 million AMERICANS, only 1/3 voted in this year’s election

* Out of that 1/3, only 63 million AMERICANS voted for Obama. That’s 63 million out of 300 million AMERICANS. Hardly a landslide

* Stocks fell over 500 points the day after the election. That’s the steepest post-election drop in history

* Obama’s popular vote margin over McCain (52.4-46.5) is less than Bush’s margin over Dukakis (53.4-45.6), and Bill Clinton’s margin over Dole (49.25-40.71)

* Democrats failed to win a filibuster-proof 60-seat majority in the Senate. Meaning that while AMERICANS voted to elect Obama, they didn’t want a majority Democratic Senate that would slide his bills through.