Posted on 11/07/2012 7:11:45 PM PST by Strategerist
Comparing 2008 vote totals to 2012 (with some numbers projected, as for example Colorado only has 90% of the votes in) overall in VA, NC, OH, NH, PA, FL, MI, MN, WI, CO, IA, NV (all states were also battleground states in 2008) Romney had 21,674,900 votes to 20,300,366 for McCain in those states, for a 6.8% advantage.
In every individual battleground state Romney turnout was higher than McCain, from 20.4% higher in Nevada to 0.6% higher in PA. Ohio Romney turnout was 7.3% higher than McCain.
In the non-battleground state of NY, Romney had 6.6% LESS turnout than McCain. Interestingly in CA Romney turnout was up 5.1%, and in TX it was up 5.9%.
Bingo. Just look at the county map of PA. Solid red — and I mean SOLID RED red except for Philly.
Not in play maybe, but they had enthusiasm against Obama (and some for Obama).
Unless the way we vote has integrity, it will not matter who we put on a ticket. They will never win.
Until people wake up and understand that we can increase our vote totals but the other side can always gyp the numbers to be ahead. Taking over the party won’t mean squat.
A larger slice of a smaller pie is not usually a winning strategy against someone else with a guaranteed base from a fanatical floor.
The GOPe is trying to use the evangelicals as an adjunct TO a base of the mushy middle, which will never work.
They get smeared by the press for being too conservative, and the real conservatives are tuning them out and not voting.
Real conservatives are on a par with, or greater than, liberals in numbers -- the GOP should build on them, and then add the big tent: not pitch a tent and try to carnival-huckster conservatives in, when they know from experience they will be betrayed (McCain-Feingold, endless promises of "vote for us to get the Supreme Court followed by Roberts on Obamacare, etc).
Cheers!
then you get NY, LA, Miami and Chicago being the defacto capitols of the country with the rest of the nation being ignored.
At least, right now we stand a fighting chance if we organize but we will never be able to defeat the “Santa machine” if it goes to a national popular.
I say we revert back to the original intent and have Congress elect the leadership.
My apologies, I used a “spreadsheet” with “equations” and “data” and other things that godless commies like Nate Silver use, and that any true conservative rightly disdains.
Grow up
OK, who was the 'real conservative' running this time? Perry? Gingrich? Cain?
Sorry, we're talking past each other. I meant numbers of constituents, not candidates.
The problem was a lot of constituents were waiting for Palin to declare, and withheld any one conservative from gaining critical mass; and, together with Gloria All-Red torpedoing Cain with a racist stereotypical attack of a sexist Black Man victimizing white women, you had Romney carpet-bombing his opponents with negative ads (just as his surrogates undermined Palin) and changing the primary rules (in Virginia, I think?) to exclude opponents: and ticking off the Paul supporters.
Each bit sapped a little support from his erstwhile base, which shaky enough to begin with, even without Romneycare, flip-flopping, and being Mormon.
Where are all the mushy-middle or Reagan democrats who were supposed to replace the religious right and prove them unnecessary?
Cheers!
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