tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3869680.post632031986389691641..comments2023-11-12T00:30:15.262+09:00Comments on Monster Island (actually a peninsula)*: Steam ahead, Mr Presidentkushibohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10306033998028548550noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3869680.post-75511384798129518142010-01-21T10:33:56.803+09:002010-01-21T10:33:56.803+09:00John from Taejŏn wrote:
With all precincts counted...John from Taejŏn wrote:<br /><b>With all precincts counted, Mr. Brown had 52 percent of the vote to Ms. Coakley’s 47 percent.</b> <br /><br />Yes, which means a very divided electorate.<br /><br /><b>What was the margin that got Obama elected? 90%-10%, 80%-20%, 70%-30%, 60%-40%? His 53% to 46% victory isn't what most mathematicians would label a landslide. It was just slightly less narrow. </b> <br /><br />You're preaching to the choir, John. See <a href="http://kushibo.blogspot.com/2008/11/you-keep-using-that-word-i-do-not-think.html" rel="nofollow">here</a>. <br /><br />I think I've been fairly consistent on this.<br /><br />At any rate, a national election of all Americans is a bit of an apple-and-oranges comparison with a special election in a single state. Nevertheless, I think I was right when I said this (from the link above):<br /><br /><i>The five or six points Obama came out ahead is a clear win but it is not a "landslide."<br /><br />Though the head of Republicans Abroad Korea saying something similar might sound like sour grapes, I am not saying this to distract from this important victory at all. Rather, I mean to point out that there is a lot of work to do in order to achieve those very things Obama has promised us. <br /><br />Reaching across the aisle will win the day, not gloating about an imaginary "landslide" or "mandate" like some Republicans did in 2000 and 2004 (believe it or not, I heard Bush's margin in the Florida recount called a landslide; Bush himself said he believed his triumph in 2000 was a mandate).</i>kushibohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10306033998028548550noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3869680.post-85598134132453720802010-01-21T09:12:03.115+09:002010-01-21T09:12:03.115+09:00kushibo,
You need to sharpen your research skills...kushibo,<br /><br />You need to sharpen your research skills.<br /><br />"Mr Brown was narrowly elected."<br /><br />With all precincts counted, Mr. Brown had 52 percent of the vote to Ms. Coakley’s 47 percent.<br /><br />What was the margin that got Obama elected? 90%-10%, 80%-20%, 70%-30%, 60%-40%? His 53% to 46% victory isn't what most mathematicians would label a landslide. It was just slightly less narrow. <br /><br />What doomed the party in this instance was not having that special election right after the seat became available. The way that was handled led to a lot of ill-will itself.<br /><br />Also in your comment you quoted, the beyond reproach, L.A. Times, “Shame on us for not even trying to be half loyal to the president we just elected.” What a load of crap, they were tearing into Bush left and right right before 9/11 had that galvanizing effect of at least uniting the media against terrorism for a while. And they didn’t do their own research either. Throughout the history of the United States of America, politics has always been one of the nastiest and finger-pointing of all professions. Take a look at the great HBO mini-series, John Adams, if you need a refresher on the subject. Personally, I think today’s political climate is tame compared to what transpired in the 1800’s—they just didn’t have the 24/7 media coverage on hundreds of channels back in those days.John from Daejeonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08431973044799010218noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3869680.post-26266516526244438492010-01-21T08:46:47.709+09:002010-01-21T08:46:47.709+09:00I really liked the following comment at the LAT we...I really liked <a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/nation-and-world/la-na-mass-assess20-2010jan20,0,6812223,comment-display-all.story" rel="nofollow">the following comment</a> at the LAT website:<br /><br /><i>I think this election is evidence that the American electorate has become unmoored, we are a thundering herd of idiots crashing into one fence then the other, led by our noses by stupifyingly reckless blowhards in the media, susceptible to spurious breaches of elementary logic, and unable to focus long enough to allow a difficult correction to run its course. God help us, but Jefferson warned us, an uninformed electorate cannot defend a Democracy. We are cast into the currents of a corporate plutocracy that continues to ever more brazenly steal our productivity and deny us the most elementary rights, such as a chance to learn and remain healthy, choosing instead to cast this inequity as a failure of the character of those left behind. Shame on us for not even trying to be half loyal to the president we just elected. Oh well.</i>kushibohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10306033998028548550noreply@blogger.com