Posted on 11/07/2012 8:08:17 AM PST by GlockThe Vote
2012
OBAMA -- 59,651,236 ROMNEY -- 57,028,531
2008
OBAMA -- 69,456,897 MCCAIN -- 59,934,814
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WTF!!!!!
Bring it on. The quicker we hit rock bottom the better.
I just noticed this. This cannot be. Around here in La La Liberal land, I have never seen so many yard signs for the republican in my LIFE! A lot of people crossed over to vote mitt. So who didn’t vote mitt amongst republicans? Did they just not vote?
Not in California, I can buy milk for a dollar, to a $1.25 cheaper than gas.
The fact that 10% (at least) of Republicans are idiots shouldn't come as a revelation...
3-4 million Republican Early Votes were discarded/destroyed. Period.
It is very simple. Many of us were hoping that the “crawl through broken glass to vote against Obama” vote would be enough. It was not.
No matter how bad an incumbent may be, to win an election against an incumbent you have to have a strong candidate that will draw voters to the polls. Romney was never that candidate.
We needed to actually change the minds of a lot of 2008 Obama voters or bring a lot of new voters to the polls. To do that, we needed more than “Obama is terrible.” We needed “Our candidate is someone you want to vote for.”
In 1994, the Republicans won a nationwide landslide in response to Clinton’s first two years in office. The Republicans took control of the House, the Senate, a majority of the governorships and a majority of the state legislatures. Basically, if you were running as a Democrat for any office in the U.S. that year you lost. If you were running as a Republican you won.
After the 1994 tidal wave, NO ONE believed that Clinton could get re-elected dog catcher in 1996. But then the Republicans nominated Bob Dole.
I liked Bob Dole. Bob Dole was a war hero. But Bob Dole had lost the Republican presidential primaries in 1980 and in 1988 and had not improved with age. He got the nomination because he had been campaigning continuously for it since 1988 and it was “his turn.”
Any of that sound familiar? 2010 was a re-play of 1994 and 2012 was a replay of 1996, with Mitt Romney playing the role of Bob Dole and Barry Obama playing the role of Bill Clinton.
The next four years are going to be disastrous. Our only hope is for the Republicans to take the Senate in 2014. At least then we can put some break on the Obamanation. But if we could not take the Senate in 2010 or 2012, then I am not at all hopeful about 2014.
people were not really voting for McLame in 08, but for his vp pick, that is the difference.
Nice to know that a muslim is better than a mormon.
In most states, the numbers are shaping up to be even lower than in 2004, said Curtis Gans, director of American University’s Center for the Study of the American Electorate.
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It’s hard to believe and something does seem gravely wrong with the election results. It truly makes no sense. Report after report from voting sites mentioned never before seen crowds or used adjectives like “massive.” Yet the turnout was down? NY and NJ, sure, but elsewhere? Logic requires that if the overall vote was down and Republican vote up (by anecdotal evidence), Democrat votes had to be down. Yet Obama wins even more states that expected?
Bachman got a week, she won the Iowa Straw Poll.
I’m speechless too, how did this happen?! I have 312 random Americans on my FB profile. Only 13 of them are Obama supporters, and liberal. How’s that for an unscientific poll?
All the polls had Romney ahead, the only people I saw with any enthusiasm for Obama were media figures.
There must have been a hell of a lot of dead people voting this time around.
Maybe all the extra votes in 2008 are the fraudulent votes.
Maybe in 2012 not as many deceased people voted.
Gene Wilder described those who refused to vote foe Romney because of his religion perfectly in his role as The Waco Kid in Blazing Saddles:
"These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know... morons. "
I was so hopeful yesterday with HUGE turnout reports. I’m shocked and sad.
I was so hopeful yesterday with HUGE turnout reports. I’m shocked and sad.
Obama/Biden - No Hope for America
No one to blame but the socialists.
This is no longer valid, Zero has 60,039,247 according to Fox News. Still quite a near-10mil dropoff from 2008.
Putting aside the possibility of massive voter fraud, which i don’t dismiss at all, i wonder if the disparity between 08 and 12 can be attributed to Sarah Palin. The consensus here seems to have been that we lost in 08 in part, at least, because while the base loved Palin they were lukewarm about McCain — so the enthusiasm for her didn’t always translate into votes for him. But now i wonder if Palin helped McCain far more than we suspected and what we saw last night was partially the effect of not having her (or someone like her) around to stimulate the evangelical vote.
We might also be seeing that a large number of evangelicals simply aren’t interested in voting republican unless an evangelical is on the ticket.
Turnout was just way down, both on the Republican side and on the Democrat side. Tens of millions of eligible people of all descriptions (conservative, liberal, Evangelical, Catholic, black, white) simply did not vote.
Unfortunately a lot of sit-it-outs are folks who should'a voted for Romney/Ryan. They didn't for various reasons. Because Romney was squishy on social issues. Because Romney was a Mormon. Because Ryan was too much an Ayn Rand enthusiast. Or not enough of one. Or any other reason why.
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