As promised, PUMAs delivered yesterday…

Some of you may be wondering what the heck I am writting about above, but truth is, as PUMAs we delivered. Let’s look at the numbers from a historic perspective, going back to 1992 when the Democrats regained the White House:

In 1992:

Bill Clinton: 44,909,806

George Bush 1: 39,104,500

In 1996:

Bill Clinton: 47,402,357 (an increase of 5.5% over 1992 for the Democrats)

Bob Dole: 39,198,755 (an increase of .24% over 1992 for the GOP)

In 2000:

Al Gore: 50,999,897 (an increase of 7.59% over 1996 for the Democrats)

George Bush: 50,456,002 (an increase of 28.72% for the GOP)

In 2004

George Bush: 62,040,610 (an increase of 22.96% fpr the GOP)

John Kerrey: 59,028,444 (an increas of 16.99% for the Democrats)

and then we finally come to the Presidential election of 2008

Barack Obama: 63,249,576 (an increase of 7.15% over 2004)

John McCain: 55,900,534 (a DECREASE of -9.90% over 2004)

So what can we learn from these numbers?

If PUMAs are conservatively numbered at 3.6 million, or 20% of Hillary’s 18million votes, their vote would have given Barack Obama an increase of 13.25% over 2004, if it is closer to 40%, which we believe it to be, those extra 7.2 million voters would have given Obama growth of 19.35% over 2004, and have put him in the range of 65 to 70 million votes.  7.15% growth and 63 million popular votes clearly shows that this did not happen.

On his part, if John McCain had simply maintained the same number of voters as Bush did in 2004, he would have ended up with 6,140,076 more votes than he did, and while he would still have lost the election, it would have been by a much narrower margin. This is without the PUMA factor.

However, if the same number of voters supported McCain in 2008 as did Bush in 2004, and McCain got 3.6 million PUMA votes added to his numbers, he would have won the White House by about 3 million votes. 

Ultimately, this election was lost by the GOP base, who snatched defeat from the jaws of victory by simply rnot voting. Why they refused is beyond the scope of this posting, but fact remains that they didn’t, and now Obama is the President-Elect.

So PUMAs, congratulations, we can hold your heads up high. We did exactly what we promised to do. We might not have stopped Obama, but both Al Gore and John Kerry were able to attract a higher percentage of new voters in the last cycle than Obama did in this one because we denied him our votes.

Posted by PUMA Pundit

Postscript- As new numbers for the 2008 election emerge, this post shall be updated at least once daily.