For all that has been said about President Bush, and how he divides the US right through the middle, it must seem quaint that this time around his re-election was backed by almost the whole of the country except the Californian and New England coasts.

Writing in The American Spectator , George Neumayr, affirmed: "The Democrats at this point are a bi-coastal party, claiming elite, populous pockets on the two coasts, but the rest of the country isn't interested in their effete agenda."

In all the 30 states that he won, his margin of victory in single digits was confined to eight states only. They were Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Missouri, Nevada, New Mexico, Ohio and Virginia respectively.

In all other states, Bush's re-election was buttressed by a percentage that extended from 11 percent in Arizona to 46 percent in Wyoming (See chart below).

Bush also got three million more popular votes then John Kerry, a vast improvement from his previous performance in the 2000 election.

Thus, despite the negative media which Bush roundly received from the New York Times , The Washington Post , and The New Yorker - not forgetting an open letter from Tun Dr Mahathir himself urging Muslim voters in the US to vote for John Kerry, in addition to the anti-Bush campaign of George Soros that had been going on for more than a year - Bush`s vote totals were the biggest ever.