# What happened to the electoral college blowouts?

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**Created:** [October 23, 2008, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-electoral-college-blowouts/469245 "2008-10-23T19:13:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![UnwrittenNocturne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/6de8d8/32.png) [@UnwrittenNocturne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UnwrittenNocturne)\
**Post date:** [October 24, 2008, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-electoral-college-blowouts/469245/16 "2008-10-24T14:52:37Z")

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> [@Did SD get in Reader's Digest?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-sd-get-in-readers-digest/48965/4):
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> America is basically a slightly to the right center country when it comes to politics. People are not voting for Obama cause they like him. They are against GW Bush. The same way Nixon benefited in 1968 because people hated Johnson so much they voted against Humphrey

This might be considered something of a hijack but ‘slightly to the right’. Compared to most western democracies the US is a long way to the right. Including most democrats. Since I arrived here I’ve often thought aloud that the democrats are too far to the right to get elected back home

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