Where did Bush get nine million new voters from? [View All]

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In four short years, that's an 18% increase in his vote totals. Is that really possible?

Are they Gore voters? I don't know a single Gore (or Nader) voter who voted for Bush this time around, but do exit polls show otherwise? And do they show a nine million voter otherwise?

Are they new voters that love the flight suit? I can't imagine that they would be.

Are they the phantom evangelicals that Rove was courting so strongly? Were there really nine million non-voting evangelicals? I find this equally hard to believe because evangelicals are one of the most politically active constituencies in the GOP, and to claim that they didn't vote before is just silly.

Or are they software glitches?

I'm genuinely curious. I'll be willing to admit that perhaps 250,000 Gore voters had a brain tumor on 2 November, and that another 250,000 new voters actually went to Bush, and maybe Rove found his 3,000,000 non-voting evangelicals.

So where did the other five and a half million people come from?