[sirchtruth]

There were about 6%, or more than 200,000, MORE votes for Romney in Texas than there were for McCain. So where is the evidence that anyone stayed home?

I just posted it. Tell me when a RINO has won nationally in the last twenty years? That's 5 election cycles!

My Goodness you people are blind as bats! I would venture to bet Gingrich would have won.

[Strategerist]

In Mississippi, even adjusting for the population increase from 2004 to 2012, Romney got 2% more votes than Bush did in 2004.

How is that remotely possible if Conservatives are staying home?

[Mr. Know It All]

I just posted [evidence]. Tell me when a RINO has won nationally in the last twenty years? That's 5 election cycles!

You don't have evidence. What you have is a plausible theory as to why conservatives might not bother to vote.

You don't actually have evidence that conservatives didn't vote. I voted for Barr in 2008 (I was in Texas). This time, in Missouri, I didn't want to take any chances, so I voted for Romney. I didn't want to, but I did. From what I've seen on FR, lot's and lot's of committed conservatives did. The evidence is that conservatives had good turnout, but liberals had better turnout.