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Politics : President Barack Obama -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: tejek who wrote (86650)	12/11/2010 3:11:56 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

He can sustain a veto with 34 Senators. He will have 53 to work with. The country that elected him walked away from him, holding its nose, when he wimped on health care, if not earlier when he wimped on stimulus. It's why the Obama voters stayed home in Nov. I just had more patience and a stronger stomach than a lot of them. Obama's No-Shows: 29 Million November 03, 2010 4:32 PM One way to look at yesterday’s election is to say that about 29 million Obama voters from 2008 simply didn’t show up this time around. Here’s how: Current estimate is that 90 million people voted. Exit poll says 45 percent were Obama voters in 2008. That’s 40.5 million voters. In 2008, Obama won 69.5 million votes. So about 29 million Obama voters did not show up in 2010. Exit poll also says 45 percent of people who voted yesterday were McCain voters in 2008, again 40.5 million. That, vs. his nearly 60 million in 2008, means about 19.5 million McCain voters did not show up. So Obama had nearly 10 million more no-shows. blogs.abcnews.com