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The Case of the Missing White Voters (7 Millions White Voters Stayed Home)
RCP ^ | 11/8/12 | Sean Trende

Posted on 11/08/2012 7:35:11 AM PST by LdSentinal

One of the more intriguing narratives for election 2012 was proposed by political scientist Brendan Nyhan fairly early on: that it was "Bizarro 2004." The parallels to that year certainly were eerie: An incumbent adored by his base but with middling approval ratings nationally faces off against an uncharismatic, wishy-washy official from Massachusetts. The race is tight during the summer until the president breaks open a significant lead after his convention. Then, after a tepid first debate for the incumbent, the contest tightens, bringing the opposition tantalizingly close to a win, but not quite close enough.

The Election Day returns actually continued the similarities. George W. Bush won by 2.4 percent of the popular vote, which is probably about what Obama’s victory margin will be once all the ballots are counted. Republicans in 2004 won some surprising Senate seats, and picked up a handful of House seats as well. The GOP was cheered, claiming a broad mandate as a result of voters’ decision to ratify clear, unified Republican control of Congress and the presidency for the first time since 1928. As Bush famously put it, “I earned capital in the campaign, political capital, and now I intend to spend it.”

(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2012obamafraud; america; duplicate; voters; white
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To: LdSentinal

While doing some errands just now heard on the radio Neil Boortz mentioned that Akin and Mourdock while not only losing their Senate races, turned off a huge enough number of women that they voted for O.

I don’t know if there’s any truth to it- but it’s a possibility. I know as a conservative woman they infuriated ME, so I can imagine they certainly made some moderate women mad too.


21 posted on 11/08/2012 8:03:59 AM PST by SE Mom (Proud mom of an Iraq war combat vet)
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To: LdSentinal

now we will have an all left supreme court.


22 posted on 11/08/2012 8:05:42 AM PST by dalebert
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To: TheThirdRuffian

Thanks for helping Obama win!


23 posted on 11/08/2012 8:06:35 AM PST by downtownconservative
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To: Twinkie

You know that thread was pulled about the missing military votes.


24 posted on 11/08/2012 8:07:02 AM PST by wiggen (The teacher card. When the racism card just won't work.)
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To: LdSentinal

25 posted on 11/08/2012 8:08:01 AM PST by Lucky9teen (Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading.~Thomas Jeffer)
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To: LdSentinal
Nielsen: 66.8 Million Tune Into Election Coverage in Primetime, Down 6% from 2008

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That is about 6 million drop in viewers:

71.5 million (2008) and 66.8 million (2012).
26 posted on 11/08/2012 8:11:55 AM PST by TomGuy
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To: The Sons of Liberty

Hopefully we have learned;
1)can’t beat nothing w/ nothing,
2)don’t crap on the base,
3)never run a wishy/washy Yankee Repub for Pres,
4)don’t neglect the White working class vote!


27 posted on 11/08/2012 8:13:26 AM PST by iopscusa (El Vaquero. (SC Lowcountry Cowboy))
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To: sbMKE

What was it that Obama said to his supporters? ... “If they bring a knife, you bring a gun.” - Barack HO


28 posted on 11/08/2012 8:13:26 AM PST by ExxonPatrolUs (The Ameritopian Motto: Gov The Sheeple, Buy The Sheeple, Bore The Sheeple)
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To: LdSentinal

the big essential in this is that within the missing “white” voters, the numbers of “missing” between the two parties was greatly more on the Dims side “white” included), and not so much for Dim “blacks”

could some of those stay-out-home “whites” who voted Obama last time (buyers remorse) had been brought to not staying home and instead accepting the GOP candidate?

more detailed political analysis of the stay-at-homes, “white” and otherwise, trying to discern WHY they stayed home and what could have brought them out, will be needed

in general, a possibility is that they had buyers remorse vis-a-vis Obama but did not hear an effective alternate choice from Romney

maybe another example of Mister Nice Guy loses again?


29 posted on 11/08/2012 8:16:12 AM PST by Wuli
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To: ruralvoter
Did 7 million voters stay home or were some of their votes discarded?

Seven million votes were disappeared. Next: seven million voters. It CAN happen here.

30 posted on 11/08/2012 8:18:14 AM PST by bIlluminati (290 Reps, 67 Senators, 38 state legislatures - Impeach, convict, amend)
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To: Mamzelle
It was all in those "early voters"--Romney won. We were cheated. Proving it is hopeless.

Spot on. As I have said before here, we witnessed a bloodless coup on Tuesday night. The Dems gamed the system and will get away with it from now on. Why should they stop? There is only one reason they would.

31 posted on 11/08/2012 8:21:47 AM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts ("The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left." Ecclesiastes 1)
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To: LdSentinal

7 million EVANGELICALS stayed home after lying to pollsters.

http://www.coachisright.com/evangelicals-plunge-america-into-darkness-mislead-polls-and-stay-home-on-election-day/

Read at this link and learn what happened on Election Day.


32 posted on 11/08/2012 8:21:47 AM PST by Oldpuppymax
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To: LdSentinal

No doubt they were so ashamed of themselves for being white that they couldn’t go out of the house. In other words, they were edumacated in the public schools.


33 posted on 11/08/2012 8:22:07 AM PST by rhombus
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To: The Sons of Liberty
I still believe there was massive vote rigging...removing many Romney votes....

that said, these stinking voters that stayed home...I suspect many here....just gave us 4 more years of govt tyranny, and once that is entrenched, there is no going back...

by the next pres. election, we'll have millions and millions of new latino voters on the rat plantation....

34 posted on 11/08/2012 8:25:00 AM PST by cherry
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To: LdSentinal

Likely these were very conservative whites but with little imagination.


35 posted on 11/08/2012 8:25:50 AM PST by Crucial (Tolerance at the expense of equal treatment is the path to tyranny.)
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To: LdSentinal
I agree with that this subject is rather ridiculous since there are tons of provisional votes yet to be counted.

That said, how does anyone know these were specifically white voters? It's not like boards of election or secretaries of state track voters by race.

36 posted on 11/08/2012 8:28:11 AM PST by gdani
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To: BitWielder1

Agree!


37 posted on 11/08/2012 8:29:14 AM PST by tayper (Granny told me, Saying it don't make it so)
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts

Whoever thinks that there wasn’t some voting shenanigans going on in places like Pennsylvania, Ohio, Virginia, and Florida is fooling themselves.


38 posted on 11/08/2012 8:30:11 AM PST by dowcaet
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To: ruralvoter

I don’t believe that the 7 million or really more did not vote. Something smelled bad right from the start. Romney improved in all the key demographic break downs, but white voters just decided not to vote; get real. It used to be that they just added votes, now they take them away. Probably, since they kept hitting the 100% mark of registered voters.


39 posted on 11/08/2012 8:32:57 AM PST by Revolutionary ("Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition!")
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To: TheThirdRuffian
drop dead....you are the problem.......don't complain NOT ONCE about bammey boy or his minions....because YOU are worse....

Romney would have been a great president....a leader....someone who loved America...someone who had business knowledge....someone who wouldn't back stab Israel....

you are pathetic.....

40 posted on 11/08/2012 8:33:05 AM PST by cherry
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