Posted on 11/07/2012 6:29:32 AM PST by voveo
Preliminary figures indicate fewer people participated this time. Associated Press figures showed that about 118 million people had voted in the White House race, but that number will rise as more votes are counted. In 2008, 131 million people voted, according to the Federal Election Commission.
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I was more enthusiastic for McCain than Romney. I neither donated nor campaigned for Romney. I did both for McCain. McCain was very strong on military issues and had a consistent record on pro-life and pro-marriage issues. Romney had no foreign policy record and formed no coherent foreign policy message. His dubious record on abortion and marriage are well-known and his campaign explicitly made it clear that they would do nothing to change the status quo on abortion. Most of the issues McCain gets picked on for from the right are beltway insider issues that the general public doesn’t care about, like campaign finance reform.
Wikipedia says in 2008 the final tally of votes counted was 131.3 million, compared to 122.3 million in 2004.
Politico reported back on Wednesday, 11/5/2008 that the turnout was 130 million. So these current turnout numbers of 117 million are not likely to go up much judging by that early 2008 report being almost on the money.
This is still more than 2000, when about 100 million voted.
Could voting machines be programmed to record the opposite of the voter’s choice? I’ll bet it could if one had access and a devious programmer at his disposal. Or perhaps it could be programmed to add a vote for Obama for every 10 that Romney gets. I don’t know how they did but I do know that they committed massive and systematic vote fraud and we will pay for years to come. Pray.
Yes. It might take a day or two for the circular firing squads to back off and look at the obvious.
Even Obama knew he was defeated, utterly defeated, the night of November 5.
Again, I think for “hacked voting machines” to be a viable explanation, one would have to be able to show that this occurred on thousands of voting machines throughout the country.
bookmrk
Yes.
It is a true crime that we have allowed our electoral process to devolve the way we have. The first thing we have to do is fix it. We need to return to one day of voting with photo ID issued only to American citizens, paper ballots, and PURPLE INK. That’s priority #1. It can and must be done, though the chances of it greatly diminished last night.
In a preliminary peek at a few states, it appears the lower number of votes affected Obama more than Romney, and the lost votes so far appear to have been in the states affected by Hurricane Sandy. I haven’t compared Ohio yet.
We know that some machines were changing votes to Obama because voters caught it. How many did not and would the machine have to show you what it was doing? It would only have to happen in some key locations...like Philly where they threw out GOP poll watchers. 70+ of them. What do you think was going on there?
How do we know all the R votes were counted?
We also know of a case in Ohio where an election judge was tossed because he/she was letting unregistered voters vote on regular, not provisional ballots. How many of those votes were counted. We will probably never know.
People were excited about Obama in 2008. Clean, articulate black man running for President. He could have carried Bill Clinton’s bags. People were fired up.
People weren’t fired up about Romney.
I’d like to know exactly where these “fewer” vote areas are. Everything I saw, read, heard pointed to massive turn out. Exactly where did we fall short this time?
And that makes no sense at all. That is something that really needs to be investigated and analyzed. The numbers I have at present are:
McCain 59,597,520
Romney 57,803,614
That great Republican enthusiasm expected for this election sure didn't pan out based on the information available so far.
2008
Obama
365
66,882,230
53%
McCain
173
58,343,671
46%
Obama
303
59,588,086
50%
Romney
206
56,962,272
48%
2008 Florida
Obama
4,282,074
51%
McCain
4,045,624
48%
2012 Florida
B. Obama (i)
4,129,360
49.8%
R M. Romney
4,083,321
49.3%
2008 Missouri
McCain
1,445,814
50%
Obama
1,441,911
49%
2012 Missouri
M. Romney
1,478,961
53.9%
D B. Obama (i)
1,215,031
44.3%
L G. Johnson
43,029
1.6%
O V. Goode
0.3%
7,914
2008 New York
Obama
4,804,701
63%
McCain
2,752,728
36%
2012 New York
B. Obama (i)
3,844,883
62.7%
R M. Romney
2,204,525
35.9%
2008 New Jersey
Obama
2,215,422
57%
McCain
1,613,207
42%
2012 New Jersey
B. Obama (i)
1,916,190
57.9%
R M. Romney
1,356,792
41.0%
We had nearly a 25% increase at our local polls than we had in 2008, which set a record at the time. We now have a new record.
Can ANYONE answer those questions?
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