Did you think in the early election night 2008 that the race would be tighter?

[Hydera]

I was only a high school freshman at the time, but looking back its kind of disappointing. Obama won big in post-1992 electoral terms, but it wasn't a electoral landslide that a 7.26% should had resulted.  yes the GOP vote was resilient, losing three million votes but still having the bulk of their 2004 vote. But its quite upsetting that even with a collapsing economy, Obama only got 7.26%