“First, the only people who “gave this country” Obama (snort at the rhetoric) are people who actively voted for him. Second, you can’t vote against a candidate. Third, voting your way is what got us to this point. “Let’s all just take whatever candidate the rest of the GOP chooses! YEH!” Stockholm Syndrome at its finest. It’s like att of you have been in an abusive relationship and don’t know how to leave”
Yeah staying home really helped to make this country a better place, two radical supreme court justices, hundreds of federal judges, corrupt AG, unconstitutional edicts from the most lefty, commie leaning socialist POTUS in history, same sex marriage, Kerry/ Clinton etc. etc. You get two choices, and if a third party candidate has a chance, fine, but staying home is ridiculous no one will ever agree with a nominee 100% of the time, but 70% isn’t a bad alternative.
Staying home is a neutral choice, it neither helps nor hurts. And I disagreed woth Romney more than 30% of the time. The ONLY way the GOP will change is to stop marching lockstep for them every election. “Elect and fix later” is a no-go. But hey, what do I know? Keep running back to your abusive boyfriend.
In the presidential elections of the United States, which usually has only two major candidates historically, one of them wins and the other loses.
The one that gets MORE votes usually wins, if the electoral college votes portioned out to the various states indicate a majority.
The candidate that does not get as many votes and doesn’t get a majority of the electoral college loses.
In 2012, Obama won because more people voted for him than Romney. If more people had voted FOR Romney, even if the votes were done for reasons of rejecting Obama, Obama would have lost.
So the fact remains that it doesn’t matter as far as the outcome of the election for the REASON that you voted for Obama or for Romney—if enough people had voted for Romney Obama would have lost.