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Originally Posted by Nan

From election results it can be assumed that a significant portion of the population of America was feeling insecure. Ergo, Bush wins. However, it is also worth noting that there was a significant number of votes going to the Green Party. Of course, given the political system in the States, these votes didn't really go anywhere, but it does demonstrate that there are in fact more "liberal" voters than "conservative," they just don't know how to vote defensively. Take that however you will.

Maybe in previous elections, but not this one. The "green party" actually got a whopping 0.09% of the vote (remember, Nader did not run under the green party this year). In fact, if we added ALL independent parties (every vote but Bush + Kerry) they only received 1.04% of the vote! Adding this to Kerry's current total of 48.0%, he still only gets 49.4%, with Bush at a majority at 50.9%. Therefore, the independents did not affect the election.

You can find all the official vote counts, plus lots of other great information, such as visual maps, here at wikipedia's election page.


Also, the country isn't as divided as people think, the electoral college map is quite decieving, as these maps show:


High-Resolution Version

This is a cartogram, where the size of each county corresponds to its relative population.



*Note: Likely not 100% of the votes would go to Kerry, only a majority, but this is just an example.