What, techinically, defines a "blowout"?

Hey Ace. Where did these USA Today numbers come from. Everything I've seen everywhere else had the popular count at 58mil for Bush to 54.5 for Kerry and that rounded out to a 51-48 margin. this is the first I've seen of anything stating a 5 point margin.

I just checked CNN and they have the vote count at 59,459,765 for Bush (51.5%) to 55,949,407 for Kerry (48.5). I don't think that USA Today count is current.

Here it is at Yahoo too.

That's weird. Yahoo only has 91% of precincts reporting and CNN has 99%. That's where the difference is....and Yahoo says theirs is updated as of 4:35 today...I'm confused.

Here's the CNN link..

http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2004/pages/results/president/

Sorry, not computer literate. Don't know how to do the live link thing.

Rorochub is right, that USAToday count isn't current. If you click on "Results" in the upper left of that page, you get to another page showing the vote "totals" that show Bush at ~56 million and Kerry at ~52 million. My guess is these figures don't include a lot of CA, OR, and WA votes...

I'm still satisfied with a 3% victory and an absolute majority of votes.

Yes, please don't get me wrong. I'm satisfied with the 51.5 to 48.5 margin too. I just didn't want Ace to post old numbers. I think the 51.5 total for Bush is very significant.

The smaller numbers don't include all of New York.

For some reason the Yahoo, C-span, and USA Today sights only have New York with 3% of its precincts reporting.

Wizbang and Powerline are both posting the 52-47 thing too...I just emailed the Powerline guys. It's not a huge deal, but I just don't want a mischaracterization of the final vote total - give the other side more rotten eggs to throw at us..

Thanks for trying to get the correct information, guys, but right now I am dead tired and I can't follow your analyses. I'm tempted just to retract on your say-so, but I'd rather try to figure out if you're right first, and I just don't have that in me now.

That USAToday page says it reloads every three minutes. How can it be behind? I checked at 4:37 and it said last updated 4:35.

That's fine Ace. I just wanted to let you know. I just re-checked everything again and Yahoo and USA today still have only 91% of the precincts reporting. CNN clearly has 99% and the higher reported vote totals.

FYI - CBS News (don't laugh guys) is reporting very similar numbers to CNN

http://election.cbsnews.com/election2004/

You don't have a timestamp.

Not sure what you mean Karol. The CNN numbers say they were updated @ 3:03 EST and the CBS numbers say they were updated @ 4:20 EST. Not sure that's relevant since Yahoo and USA Today are only reporting 91% vs 99% for CNN and similar numbers for CBS

adjudicate

Fat Kid,

I've seen it. For the past week I've been trying to find a .wav or mp3 of Sarah Silverman's "Psycho Bitch" baby-fucker speech from the beginning of the movie. You don't happen to know where I could find such a thing, do you?

Karol,

On the individual entry I do.

Rorochub,

Thanks again for the alertness.

No problem Ace. Keep up the good work. I really enjoy your take on things. Your blog has rocketed up my must read list. And for gosh sakes get some sleep.