Obama supporters, you aren't in fact the majority

Thank you for saying this. Everyone who is trying to shut us up seems to think that 0bama won by a landslide, but 52% of votes does not a landslide make, and it is not indicative of what the majority of Americans wanted to happen.

Attacking? You're one of the few sorta conservatives on this site that is respectful. I suppose that the Republicans should have put up a better candidate, or should I say VP candidate. I know several that voted for Obama only because they didn't like Palin.

Besides your point that only 52% voted for 0bama, there is the unpleasant reality that many of those 52% no longer support 0bama. As 0bama continues to perform poorly as President, 0bama's support overall is dropping. As time continues, it will drop even more. Let's speculate right now that 0bama's support before his four years is over will be around the level of the US CONGRESS. What's that? 10% or so?

You're right and the same has been true of every election with some changes in the numbers. However, it could be said that since those who were eligible to vote but chose not to made that choice they were casting their votes for "Whomever the most of those who bother to vote picks". Even if they didn't vote because they didn't like either major candidate and didn't think voting for a 3rd party candidate would do any good, they were still leaving it up to the rest of us. Therefore they're part of the "silent (and lazy!) majority" by default. Annie

You may be correct in a way. However, if you further take into consideration that Obama received the second highest percentage of votes, based on the total population, ever in US history (www.fivethirtyeight.com/2008/11/population-and-popular-vote.html), the validity of your argument starts to change. This election roused more interest in the population than any other over the last twenty years, surpassed only by our actor president, the "Great Communicator" Ronald Reagan in 1984. Then if you add worldwide voting statistics to your argument, it is further diminished. Worldwide only 53 - 77% of any nation's population votes (http://jdasovic.com/2008/01/23/voter-turnout-across-the-world/). So really in every nation you could make the claim that the majority of the nation is not supportive of the current policymaker in power. And finally, there are far more reasons for a lack of voter participation than a lack of voter support. Some would rather not vote because of the reasons you list, but also many could not vote (jobs, sickness, travel and other obligations often keep people from doing many things that they otherwise might), many do not understand the point of voting (the thought may be "my life won't change no matter who is president, so what do I care?"), some people are just non-political, and if we recall, in this country many of our citizens (something like 1 in every 140, http://crime.about.com/od/prison/a/bjs040720.htm) are denied the ballot because they are considered criminals/felons unworthy of the right. To provide such a simplistic argument, as the one you give here, to undermine the effect President Obama is having on the country is uninformed and unfounded. Furthermore, your point in many ways, at this juncture, is a non-issue, moot. President Obama is currently representing the people of this country because he is the president. It is time for the country to get behind this man to make change. He has clearly demonstrated that he does not require complete agreement, merely the spirit of cooperation.

X, are you off your medication? I am sorry to say this X, but this is one of the most stupid things I have ever heard. This had to come from right wing hate radio, they are the only minds that could come up with such stupidity. If YOUR candidate couldn't get people out to vote, or couldn't take votes away from another candidate is YOUR fault. For someone who talks so much about the constitution, I find it funny that you don't understand that Obama won the majority of votes, and the election. X, it is time to move on, the election is over. GET OVER IT.

Even if we go just with the actual vote and break down the numbers Obama's views are not any where close to a majority of American voters. Think about it like this what if some 60 something white male like John Kerry had said the same things as ole Barry had said does any one really believe that john Kerry would have been President. I believe that if Old Mac had gone up against I once served in Vietnam McCain would have been President. Why do I believe this well a lot of voters voted based on color or because Obama was new, and nothing to do with his politics.

*applause* Thank you for speaking that statistic out loud. Thank you for encouraging thought not guided by the almighty idiot box.

Interesting way of looking at it. I hadn't even thought about it that way. So he isn't really backed by the majority of the country. Nice to know. And yes, as somebody else already pointed out, support is waning. But that was to be expected. Those who thought that they have found a politician who truly meant it this time have found, well just another same old same old.

firstly let me just say that I am not racist. however I do think that the majority of people who voted for barack obama was because the citizens of the states wanted to see a non-white man get the presidential title. Everyone sees Obama as the man of change. Granted he did give a hell of a speech but I think people were mainly interested as he wasn't the constant white male in the white house. True Obama could be the best thing for the states economy, but so far he has done little to prove nor deny so.

I've kinda always assumed the majority of people were dumb. And all ACORN did was get the majority of people to vote. Ergo, ACORN got a bunch of dumb people to vote for 0bama. There are way many sheep than shephards.

people voted obama because they want change they are sick and tired of white man governing the white house.they're experementing what if a black president runs the house and i think it's not bad at all.what happened to bush's regime it went down that's why we have now a global crisis.obama is focusing to give americans jobs and benefits that's why people voted him.and why would some americans vote for mccain for he has lots of conspiracy right.

the fact of the matter is obama did win and i mean huge baby.it doesn't matter if there are people who didn't vote.but i new it from the start obama will win because here in the philippines our solid obama hear that.and our relatives there voted for obama my friend so where did you got your info.obama is second most popular to reagan a lot of celebrities big star or not supports obama.and most americans wants change and it means no more discrimination anymore.