Using the NY Times vote totals, I get an even smaller number:
Romney needed 51, 940 votes to win Florida’s 29 electoral college votes; he needed 103,520 people to win Ohio’s 18 electoral votes; he needed 115,911 people to win Virginia’s 13 electoral votes; he needed 40,660 to win New Hampshire’s 4 EVs.
Total: 312,041 to win the Electoral College
This amounts to 0.263 percent of all votes cast for Obama and Romney. Does an election in which the result could have been reversed by roughly 1/4 of 1 percent of the electorate voting differently sound like a “mandate” to you? It’s comical to see progressives leap to assure us Obama has a mandate to raise taxes, implement Obamacare etc. based on such weak election results.
There you go...an even smaller number. Might even be smaller when all votes are tallied in the states over the next 30 days.
WE NEED GET THIS INFORMATION INTO THE CONSERVATIVE ECHO CHAMBER!