well with a bit over 50% of the vote counted nationally, Obama leads only 50%-49%.
that will extend a bit in California etc, while the night goes on, but it is clear that while this looks to be a very large electoral win, the huge margins in the popularvote do not look to be appearing at all....52-53% which i think Obama will end with, is hardly a gigantic victory...
frankly, as a neutral, it shows me still, that even with a totally uninspired republican candidate, riding the unfortunate coattails of the worst president in the history of the United States, and a republican congress failing miserably and in the middle of what will develop into an even worse economic crisis, for all the talk about how inspirational Obama is, in national polls, it is still a very small margin.
it was not a landslide or a techtonic shift in the popular vote, even with the millions of newly registered voters...
it states exactly what i have been thinking as an independent, based on the utter incompetence and corruption of these two parties, and it is this:
Just because the republicans *ABSOLUTELY* deserve to lose, does not mean that the democrats deserve to win.
that is a fact.
to suggest either one of these parties is the answer to the problems in washington is utterly blinkered and sad.
This shows that even as charismatic and cool and intelligent and energetic Obama is, all the excitement and hype was the product of alot of media fawning media attention and wild enthusiasm from his ocean of supporters.
He is charismatic, smart, a good speaker, accomplished and a host of other positive qualities...but even still, it took a Bush created economic meltdown to secure his election, and it was not secured until the meltdown in mid-september.
The youth vote was 21% of the election and they were overwhelmingly for Obama...which proves just how ignorant the youth are. If they had wanted real change, the last thing the young should trust is the establishment, and for all his high minded and charismatic talk, Obama, still represents the establishment, absolutely. He may be new on thescene, but make no mistake, this is simply the establishment changing hands from one party to another, nothing more than a switchover of the stranglehold of power.
If young people wanted true "Change", voting for democrats or republicans isn't it.
I have little faith in youth if this is their idea of "change"
the same thinbg happened in 92...i was 21 and in college, we were "Gen X". We were the new lost youth, we were aimless, we liked starbucks, we were the MTV generation, we had Kurt Cobain, we were slackers, we were too into the internet and the new economy
GHW Bush came off as the old and tired establishment candidate, and all the youth found a new, hip, charismatic leader who answered questions about his underwear...
so all the young kids voted for him...even though he only got 43% of the vote...but ultimately, he changed very little about the establishment. Neither of these parties ever does.
true change is never the mantra of the establishment, and if kids think they will be getting true change they are sorely mistaken.
I will say this again...
just because the republicans deserved to lose, does not mean that the democrats deserved to win.