(2) The fact that Mayer apparently needs this analysis to conclude that "the Republican base was not enthusiastic about Romney" indicates that he is either mildly retarded, or has never actually met a member of the Republican base.
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Few Republicans vote in the presidential primaries here in Ohio. By the time it rolls around here, the decision has already been made. Voting is a mere formality.
Even if the GOP base was not enthusiastic about Romney, they SHOULD have been enthusiastic about removing the commie kenyan. I’m beginning to wonder if all the big reports of Romney having 30,000 at rallies and Hussein having 2800 made some people a little over-confident and they didn’t bother to vote.
(3) Mayer didn’t get into the fact that military absentee ballot registration was down by 70%... and down by 92% in VA.
RINOism is only one of the major reasons Romney lost.
1) Hire a real debate coach before even forming an exploratory committee;
2) Hire a video coordinator (assistant debate coach) who will run you through montages of all the critical Akin, Mourdock, "Romney 47%", Cain foreign policy, et al. blunders, frame by frame, once a day.
These analysts are not really interested in looking at fraud on a massive scale.
My eyes were opened to fraud in college when I watched The Machine stuff ballots for their candidate right before my very eyes. It was a young college republican club. The guy who won that election graduated soon thereafter and went to work for a Democrat in Birmingham. There was a professor who documented voter disenfranchisement in a neighboring county, and nothing has been done about it to this day. He video recorded it. I have a vague recollection it made the national news. But no one would touch it because it was a predominantly black county.
What happened ? What do my lying eyes SEE ??? > FRAUD <
Turns out that disgust at the months of ads, mailers and knocks on the door had moved many previously high propensity voters into the low propensity voter category. BO's folks understood the situation, heck, they created it. So they cajoled their turned off (formerly) high propensity voters to vote during early voting. Romney left his (formerly) high propensity voters to show up on their own on Tuesday, and far too few of them did.
It is estimated that more black people, not fewer, voted in 2012 than 2008. More Latinos voted, not fewer, and an even greater percentage of them supported Obama this time. The youth vote did not decline from 2008. All this despite flagging enthusiasm for the president. Here’s a telling anecdote related by a senior Obama aide to the press pool on Wednesday’s flight from Chicago back to Washington. During flight, a campaign official talked about the ground game on background . . . In describing the ground game, the official told of a conversation he had with a top field director on Monday. The GOP had tweeted that they had knocked on 75,000 doors in Ohio the day prior. Not to worry, the director said, “we knocked on 376,000.” Then the president came in, and this aide said, “Tell him the door thing.” So he did. And the president responded, “That’s my team.” That was not Romney’s team. Romney’s team was back in Boston Tuesday night, watching in awe:
I didn’t hear any news stories about the unmotivated Republican base. You figure the MSM would have loved to report on it, wonder why it was such a huge blind spot for them?
This is an awful analysis. Only 90% of the votes in Ohio are estimated to have been counted so far. Yet he compares the partial vote totals for 2012 to the final certified vote total in 2008.
Factoring that in, About 7% more people voted for Romney in 2012 than McCain in 2008 in Ohio.
I expect people like Limbaugh to screw this up, but I expect better from National Review.
While I've never voted for a Democrat in an election that mattered, the primaries were important in those days. At least you could pick the weakest candidate to run against your real preference.
I changed my registration during Reagan's candidacy.
I became disenchanted with the Republican party with the nomination of Bob Dole; increasingly disenchanted with the nomination of John McCain (the only Presidential election I did not vote in since I was able to vote).
When the Republican establishment was pushing Romney, I initially said "no" and pledged my support to my friend Gary Johnson.
At the last minute, I voted for Romney to no avail.
The Republican Party has lost me.
In this last election, my candidates of choice won only at the County and City levels.
That's clearly where the future lies. I'm going to the County Clerk's office and registering as a Democrat tomorrow; simply so I can have a voice in my government.
I will not vote that way, but the stupid party has finally gotten my goat after 4 decades.
I’m not a registered Republican, but I received zero, zip, nada phone calls or mail from the Democrats. Think of the time and money they saved. How do they know I won’t vote Democrat? Think about it. Do they have that kind of data and can crunch it? Maybe the first step is to make sure our information isn’t being sent to the Democrats.
This is what happens when in 4 years you add 13 million to food stamps and a couple of million more to disabilty rolls. 15 million votes is alot of a headstart to overcome.The House must defund the welfare funding or no amount of tv ads and organizing will win.
We have millions who rather sit home and collect a little money than go out and make much more.
Take away their welfare check, and they MUST then vote Republican, because we are the ones who know and believe in the righteousness of creating jobs. Give them welfare and they MUST vote Democrat. ........AND IT HAPPENED. word!