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Put aside the fact that, as the election played out, Sandy was a critical boost for the president. Let’s pretend that it was just a vote drain — one that explains at least some of the slight drop in young voters. What did it really cost Obama? Maybe a million votes? It doesn’t come close to accounting for the cratering of his support. Even if he had lost only 8 million votes, that would still have been 11 percent of his 2008 vote haul gone poof. Romney should have won going away.
1 posted on 11/11/2012 11:27:36 AM PST by pabianice
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Horrifying. But today on NBC’s Sunday morning show (heard on the radio), the Left was in full gloat mode, declaring white, working, patriotic America dead and buried and thank goodness.


2 posted on 11/11/2012 11:30:07 AM PST by pabianice (washington, dc ..)
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gee imagine that, faced with an imperfect candidate people stay home and we get four more years of Obama because those bastards voted their ‘conscience’.


3 posted on 11/11/2012 11:32:32 AM PST by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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Those who found themselves in some way to ethically superior to vote for Romney helped bring us Obama again. They deserve no mercy IMO.
I think those on the right knew darn well the stakes this time, so we had some messed up in the head not voting this time IMO.


4 posted on 11/11/2012 11:33:18 AM PST by A CA Guy ( God Bless America, God bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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Two RINO candidates who DID NOT energize the conservative base, and you blame the people for voting their convictions?

If republicans want to WIN, they should do this;

SELECT a HISPANIC CONSERVATIVE (predict TED CRUZ 2016)

He’s a Tea Party Candidate!


5 posted on 11/11/2012 11:33:44 AM PST by BereanBrain
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Boo hoo. The real problem was allowing Democrats to help choose the GOP nominee in open primaries, so that the party was stuck with a multi-millionaire with Wall St. ties during a depression. What were they thinking?


6 posted on 11/11/2012 11:33:59 AM PST by txrefugee
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The key to understanding the 2012 election is simple: A huge slice of the electorate stayed home.

Bullcrap. A huge slice of the electorate voted twice. A huge slice of the electorate didn't exist on 11/6/2012 (dead). A huge slice of the electorate was duplicate absentee ballots. A huge slice of the electorate were Republicans who had their votes expunged.

The media keeps trumpeting this "Republicans stayed home." Again. BS. The 'Rats stole this one with a 4 year coordinated, surgical strike on the voting process.

7 posted on 11/11/2012 11:34:10 AM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts ('Need' now means wanting someone else's money. 'Greed' means wanting to keep your own...)
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I don’t believe that for a minute. In Texas, the voter turn out DOUBLED.

2004 = 7 million

2008 = 8 million

2012 = 14 million


10 posted on 11/11/2012 11:36:03 AM PST by bgill (We've passed the point of no return. Welcome to Al Amerika.)
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Gollygosh and Geewhizz.

Real Republicans (RINOs excepted) do not like being consistantly kicked in the nuts by Congressional Republican leaders.

WHOODA THUNK IT??? (Gone fishing, instead.)

What have they done for us after the big win in 2010??? Eh. weepy ‘ol Boner ‘l buddy????


11 posted on 11/11/2012 11:38:18 AM PST by Flintlock (PARANOIA--means having all the facts.)
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BULLCRAP—it was FRAUD and nothing more...explain the non-English speaking Ethiopians BUSSED into Ohio to vote!!!!

Explain the 114% “turnout” in precincts.

Explain the small crowds for barry and HUGE crowds for Mitt, and then tell me people didn’t turn out to vote for the republican candidate.

I’m sick to death of the enemies on our side.


14 posted on 11/11/2012 11:40:05 AM PST by Mortrey (Impeach President Soros)
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We can’t forget the primaries were redesigned by Michael Steel to extend the primary season. At the time, it may have seemed like a good idea. However, the net effect was to drain money, force candidates to take positions that would paint them into a corner during the general election and force Republican food fights which turned a lot of voters off.


16 posted on 11/11/2012 11:41:53 AM PST by fso301
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Every report I’ve seen had the polls busy.

I don’t think it’s so much that people didn’t show up at the polls, as that they didn’t show up in the count.


17 posted on 11/11/2012 11:42:33 AM PST by null and void (The One can steal an election, but no one can steal our country.)
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O.K. people.... Let me tell you why the GOP lost. It was because the Obamanites loaded the polls with unregistered parasites who have no business voting. Obama had the media
as his personal propaganda machine. Millions of dollars came in under the table from enemies of our country... But the real reason the Republicans lost.....NO BALLS! The republicans will not fight back.


18 posted on 11/11/2012 11:42:55 AM PST by baddog 219
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The “voters stayed home” meme is now being pulled out of the Axelrod/Soros quiver. To steal an election, you do it by a slim margin to make it seem plausible, then follow up with unprovable but again plausible scenarios to silence those who remain unconvinced. Of course the suspect numbers are precisely what’s being used to support the faulty conclusion, but that’s just right wing nonsense. All the talking heads except Savage will run with this next week, mark my words. The polls were jam packed around here, some closed early even with people in line (Rio Rancho, NM). Everyone I know voted.


20 posted on 11/11/2012 11:45:32 AM PST by SpaceBar
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I don’t buy it.

I don’t buy the numbers.

I don’t buy that they know “who” stayed home either.


25 posted on 11/11/2012 11:50:22 AM PST by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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If we want voters to show up and choose, we need to provide voters with a choice to be made. Liberal A vs. liberal B is not a choice worthy of a trip to the polls. And, for those of you who think that Romney is not a liberal, you should watch this video and, if necessary, watch it again and again until it sinks into your head.

We cannot turn this country around until we stop voting for liberals, period.

26 posted on 11/11/2012 11:52:02 AM PST by Tau Food (Praise God. Trust God.)
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Right so it is the fault of Conservatives like me that Mittens lost, granted that the Rove Wing of the Parry rigged the nomination process in their favor and used the failed 2008 playbook of John McCain in the hopes of different results, now it is our fault, right!


27 posted on 11/11/2012 11:52:10 AM PST by Trueblackman (I would rather lose on Conservative principles than vote for a RINO candidate.)
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This article is idiotic garbage.

The simple answer is that millions of votes haven’t been counted yet. Only a moron would compare the 2012 vote total a couple days after the election to the certified final vote total from 2008.

It’s very clear Romney received more votes than McCain.

There are 3 million unprocessed ballots in California ALONE. New York state only has about 86% of its votes counted.

See also.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeedpolitics/there-are-no-missing-voters


28 posted on 11/11/2012 11:53:38 AM PST by Strategerist
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Will the people around here old enough to remember the 1990’s please speak up, because this is nothing but a re-run of 1994-1996.

Thanks to a jug eared egotistical moron we got stuck with clintoon in ‘94. Two years later conservatives rose up in mass (without a catchy name like ‘tea party’) and handed the ‘bent one’ his a$$ on a plate. All that was left was to wait two years and kick the dirt bag to the curb (any of this sound familiar yet?).

And what happened two years later?

After another long, screwed up, confusing primary, we got Dole. A man all conservatives respected, but also a politician no one trusted. And the result?

Four more years of ‘the bent one’, and conservatives wondering how it could happen. And sixteen years later almost the EXACT scenario plays out again.

And again conservatives wondering how it could happen.

(Hint - it happens because we have some pathological resistance to FINISHING the enemy off!!! We knock them down and then let them survive.)

30 posted on 11/11/2012 11:55:39 AM PST by I cannot think of a name
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The GOPe is not capable of lofting people like Dole, McCain, or Romney any longer, if it wants to win elections.

It’s that simple.

When it pulls it’s collective head out of it’s ass, and helps us nominate solid citizens for office, we’ll see some different outcomes.

Until then, I’ll just sit here and watch others blame the sound Conservatives who’ve had enough.

I voted for Romney. You folks don’t know how close I came to not doing so. We simply MUST quit playing the RNC’s game here.

Voting in RINO Republicans has as nearly destroyed our nation as voting in Clintons and Obamas.

We need to go Right, not status quo middle when our folks are in the White House.

If were not going to do that, then guess what, a lot of folks are going to stay home. And why shouldn’t they.

Give us right, or go pound sand. When you get tired of seeing guys like Clinton and Obama get elected, come back and talk to us.

Give us a Conservative to vote for, and we’ll be there all the way.


32 posted on 11/11/2012 11:57:26 AM PST by DoughtyOne (Hurricane Sandy..., a week later and 47 million Americans still didn't have power.)
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I was a Newt voter in February but I realized it was more important for the country and went to vote with a clear head for Romney. Don’t call me a RINO. I know full well I would have had some major problems with some of Governor Romney’s policies if he became president but four more years of this administration is a far greater risk to the country’s existence than Mitt Romney would have been. I understand conservatives angry at the establishment for pushing one moderate after another to get the nomination but was it worth it to stay home in this particular year?


38 posted on 11/11/2012 11:59:48 AM PST by dowcaet ( for)
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