Congratulations to President-Elect Barack Hussein Obama II!

Why am I not surprised that 1992-2000 are vacant in your memory?

 

Yeah, I was going to save that one for whatever rebuttal he possibly had. Now, he'll just go *poof*.

 

Actually, it's not. You could have dropped Obama's vote by 9% in every single state and he would have still won the election.

http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2008/11/obamas-electoral-cushion.html

Specifically, while Obama won the national popular vote by 6.5 points, he accumulated 269 electoral votes -- guaranteeing him at least an electoral tie -- between 22 states and the District of Columbia which he won by 9.3 points or more. And he went over the top to 278 electoral votes with Colorado, which he won by 8.6 points.

In other words, if you had subtracted 9.3 points from Barack Obama's margin in every state, he would still have tied the Electoral College -- even while losing the popular vote by almost 3 points. And if you had subtracted 8.6 points, he would have won the Electoral College outright, while losing the popular vote by 2.1 points.

That's not remotely close by any measure.