So in light of assumptions of fraud in Florida and Ohio, I thought I'd take a quick look at the vote totals in 3 uncontested, non-battleground, non-swing, "safe" Kerry states. A simple comparison of 2000 to 2004 Bush totals shows the following:
2004 2000
Massachusetts 1,067,163 878,502 (21.5% Bush increase)
Rhode Island .. 161,654 130,555 (23.8%)
Delaware ....... 171,660 137,288 (25%)!!!
You might attribute the high Mass and RI votes to anti-Kerry voters who know him and simply hate him, but the Delaware number is mind numbing.
These percentages also, unfortunately, agree with the current Bush popular vote total of 60.7 million, which would be a 20% increase over his 50.5 million in 2000. Depressingly, Bush somehow, actually, really got all of these new voters this time.
It is in fact completely depressing.