No, they won because they stole it by loosing votes in key republican areas of Ohio, Pennsylvania, Florida and Virginia.
That includes the military ballots, but also republican heavy districts. Plus, they bumped up with the ridiculously disproportionate Obama numbers in areas like Philly. 108% turnout? Really?
I’m always struck, if one chances to be with a GOP insider when a new poll rolls off the wire, that their first reaction is to query whether it’s of “likely” voters or merely “registered” voters. As the consultant class knows, registered voters skew more Democrat than likely voters, and polls of “all adults” skew more Democrat still. Hence the preoccupation with turnout models. In other words, if America had compulsory voting as Australia does, the Republicans would lose every time.
That’s nothing, in one Florida district 247,000 out of 175,000 registered voters voted for Obama and the Democrats.