Good article. Understanding the numers are estimates,
Obama saw a 9.35 million vote loss from 2008( 13.4%). Romney saw a 2.5 million vote loss from mccain 2008( 4.2%).
Overall there was an 11.55million vote loss.
Someone didn’t vote in the R columns. Was it because Romney is a Mormon? Were Tea Partiers involved? Did Evangelical Christians apathetic?
The MSM needz to get rid of people like Beckel, Williams(both Brian & Juan), Matthews, maddow, etc... None have accomplished anything except withholding outright laughter when they try to sell their BS.
Do the vote totals match the number of people that voted? It is easy to figure out but I doubt we will ever learn that information. We also need that data to determine if any specific areas were undervoted this election.
Everyone has an opinion. No message connection, Christie turned the tide, the storm caused many less voters, younger people would not vote for R.
We will find the Tea Party voted in large numbers. The storm & Christie did not make any difference. I am in NJ. If anything the D’s lost votes by not voting. Christian coalition did not turn out for their own cause. Shame on them. They wishy-washy Liberatarians didn’t vote( includes other Indies). They claim it is a conscious thing but they really want the Dems to win to keep themselves relevant.
The message(s) got out on both sides. The results are all due to turnout or the lack thereof. We knew many Dems were going to stay home and over 9 million did. Why 2.5 million people failed to show up for Romney is the key question. We all have to live with it. He had to be more popular than Mccain. Those people deserve what they get.
RE: Someone didn’t vote in the R columns. Was it because Romney is a Mormon? Were Tea Partiers involved? Did Evangelical Christians apathetic?
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Can’t blame it on Evangelicals. Billy Graham went out of his way to buy ads in Battleground States AND the Wall Street Journal ( Nationally ) to encourage Christians to vote for traditional family and sanctity of life.
Maine, Maryland and Minnesota IGNORED his advise.
And, According to Post #60 of this thread:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2956841/posts?q=1&;page=64#64
Evangelicals voted 79% for Mormon Romney.
Catholics gave him 48%.
If any, it was CATHOLICS who refused to vote for Romney.
The above numbers, if correct, tell me that MOST CATHOLICS (52%) either: Voted Obama, or stayed home.
Which is to say, most Catholic don’t care that their church and institutions are under attack and would rather:
A) Allow Obama’s minions to attack their church and institutions with impunity or;
B) Actively support Obama’s minions’ attacks on their church
and institutions with impunity.
In what way are they still Catholics other than the fact that they were baptized as infants?
Where the GOP lost was among the age groups 18-29 (60% to 37%) and 30-44 (52% to 45%). They comprised 46% of the electorate. Romney won the other age groups but by a narrower margin.
My own theory is that the changing demographics of this country is what is fueling this disparity. By 2019 half of the children 18 and under will be minorities as defined by the USG. Each year a cohort turns 18 and becomes eligible to vote, it will be composed more and more of minorities who overwhelmingly by two to one vote Dem. Our immigration policies are driving most of these changes. The Dems are well on their way to becoming the permanent majority party.