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Politics : Politics for Pros- moderated

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To: SmoothSail who wrote (279012)11/5/2008 9:35:28 PM
From: greenspirit  Read Replies (1) of 793916
 
I think it's easy to beat up the candidates when they lose, but when you put things in perspective, it was really a pretty close race from a historical perspective. Check out these key states and how close they were.

Florida
Barack Obama Dem 4,103,638 50.8%
John McCain GOP 3,908,736 48.4%

Ohio
Barack Obama Dem 2,673,958 51.2%
John McCain GOP 2,469,544 47.2%

Missouri
John McCain GOP 1,442,613 49.5%
Barack Obama Dem 1,436,745 49.3%

North Carolina
Barack Obama Dem 2,123,334 49.9%
John McCain GOP 2,109,281 49.5%

Indiana
Barack Obama Dem 1,367,264 49.9%
John McCain GOP 1,341,101 49.0%

Virginia
Barack Obama Dem 1,792,502 51.8%
John McCain GOP 1,637,338 47.3%

Colorado
Barack Obama Dem 1,109,328 52.6%
John McCain GOP 966,957 45.8%
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