Posted on 11/07/2012 10:29:18 AM PST by chessplayer
What happened to all that Republican enthusiasm we heard talk about since the Tea Party took America by storm?
With 95 percent of Tuesday's ballots counted, it appears Mitt Romney could end up with less votes than John McCain got in 2008 when all the planets lined up against the GOP.
At press time, Romney has 56,972,497 votes.
In 2008, McCain got 59,934,814.
If only five percent of the votes are still left to be counted as reported by the Associated Press, this means there may be a little over six million ballots remaining.
Romney would have to get 48.3 percent of those just to match McCain's total.
Of course, even if that were to happen, this would have to be viewed as a terrible showing for Romney.
All we've been hearing for months was that there was far more enthusiasm this election for Republicans.
if not ‘rape’ it’ll be some other word. we need to get some coaches out to these candidates to instruct them on how to NOT get involved in any back and forth commentary with leftwingtard reporters.
Every future GOP primary debate from now to the end of time needs to feature at least one question on rape and abortion.
Cost us two slam dunk seats in this election and probably caused at least some of our voters in other areas not to come out and vote at all.
maybe those voters who reported they pushed the Romney touch screen area and Obama touch screen area registered a vote (for Obama) happened a lot more than anyone imagined. The chicago thugs rigged machines??? this may not be so far fetched ....wasn’t there articles suggesting rigged machines prior to election?
Too many voters were willing to overlook Obama's record because they didn't want to see America's first Black president not be re-elected. Would've been seen as a slap in the face to Blacks and a setback for civil rights.
In other words, white guilt won Obama a second term.
The shiftless are leading the clueless.
That may also explain why the GOP hung on to Congress, but lost the White House.
Obama lost more votes though. Again, McCain got more votes because more people voted in general BUT he got less EV than Romney, lost two more states than Romney (Indiana and NC) and lost by a wider margin in places like VA, FL, and OH.
McCain did worse than Romney..period.
2008
Obama 69,456,897
McCain 59,934,814
2012 (not final)
Obama 59,971,178
Romney 57,304,430
I don’t think anyone could have defeated Obama.
Too many voters were willing to overlook Obama’s record because they didn’t want to see America’s first Black president not be re-elected. Would’ve been seen as a slap in the face to Blacks and a setback for civil rights.
In other words, white guilt won Obama a second term.
The shiftless are leading the clueless.
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Exactly. People still blaming Bush allowing the black guy get away with doing a shitty job out of feeling sorry for him. same crap white guilt always does with minorities. low expectations and placing blame of their failure on some white guy.
It's like being a sort of kinder-gentler snake handler. i grew up in a neighborhood with such people. They all assured me they were my friend, and we should play, and why not come to church with them someday.
They were also quick to advise me that 'they who donna' tek' op' ye snakes AIR gonna' go to Hell' ~ so, theologically there are inoffensive methods, and then there are the snakehandlers who share the same theology as the methodists. There are fake snakehandlers who do the pentecostal thing, but they're fake pentecostals as well ~ one jerk or la-la-la at the wrong time and that snake has you in his teeth.
So, snake handlers will tell you that you are doomed unless you do it their way. Mormons have that same message but you have to read about it. They are not like Methodists theologically speaking.
Another nice thing about Mormons is they don't use snakes in church ~ far's as I have heard. But you have to join up and work your way through the chairs to find out. I'd bet Mit knows.
Very Well Put and True.
Palin was on the ticket last time.
Consider the fact that Todd Akin, a Presbyterian, and Richard Mourdock, an Evangelical, both lost their senate races in states Romney carried handily. I don't think anti-Mormonism is a significant factor.
It would be very helpful if we had a comparison by state of the McCain vote in 2008 and Romney’s vote. I wonder if we’d see that drop-off even more so in battleground states.
Maybe someone, somewhere is putting that together for publication soon.
Can you handle the truth about the low voter turnout for Romney? McCain got more votes because of the true conservative, Sarah Palin! McCain was running off the road into the ditch until Sarah came on board to ignite the “conservative base”! The GOP still does not get it!
Granted, the comparison numbers will change, but I’ve taken a preliminary look at 10 states and can only find three where McCain beat Romney:
TN 1.93%, OH 3.85%, PA 1.71%
FL and TX were up 1-2%
NC +6.8% (flipped)
VA +1.3% (remained Zero)
CO +4.3% (remained)
NV +12.01% (remained)
WI +11.3% (remained)
I’ve not found the rest of the difference, but the next I will examine will be where I expect to see a big drop, NY and NJ.
I'd argue that Akin and Mourdock lost the moderate vote, which presumably went for Romney and provided his margin of victory.
The question is whether she also ignited the liberal base, such that Obama won the popular vote by a 7% margin.
So much for the meme that Palin cost Republicans votes.
Yep. Millions (yes, millions) of illegal aliens participating in the election. Ballots conveniently printed in Spanish for them. Acorn (gone underground with a dozens of different names) engaging in vote fraud. No ID checking. Etc etc. It's ugly.
“Half of that is 3m votes. That’s Obama’s margin of victory right there. Maybe it was never in the cards. Romney is the ideal RINO candidate except for the fact that he’s Mormon.”
Blind bigots. They claim to be pro-life, yet they were willing to allow Obamacare (an institutionalized, taxpayer-funded assault on the lives of the unborn, the sick and the elderly) to stand rather than vote for somebody they consider a “cultist” who pledged to repeal it.
They are no less bigoted than blacks who voted for Obama merely because he’s half black.
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