If I heard Karl Rove right last night, in Ohio the pre-election day early vote count put 0bama up by +10%! On election day, Romney got back 9% of that, but it wasn't enough?!
If so, this was already "baked in" before election day. Something is seriously wrong with that!
Absentee/early voting should be dramatically restricted and reformed.
Yes. Hard to imagine there was such a systemic fraud here, but I picked Cuyahoga County this morning to analyze precinct machine by precinct machine and it turned up queer.
I found that in 2008 there were 15,385 (2%) blank ballots cast in the county, but in 2012 there were 95,280 (15%) blank ballots cast. I then looked machine by machine in one town in the county: Euclid. They had 48 voting machines in 2004, 2008 and 2012. It is a Democratic town, usually on the magnitude of 60/40.
* In 2012 Romney received 4,426, Obama 18,603, and there were 3,717 blank ballots submitted.
* In 2008 McCain received 5,508, Obama 19,273, and there were 862 blank votes submitted.
* In 2004 Bush received 5,984, Kerry 15,859; not sure on the blank votes.
This pattern repeats itself elsewhere, but even if Romney was not everyone's favorite, I find it hard to believe he would be that much below McCain given the passion there appeared to be to vote out Obama.