[Candor7]

Its no myth. Many conservatives stayed home.

[sirchtruth]

When are supposed republicans gonna STOP being so unimaginably STUPID and quit making excuses? It's almost become IDIOTIC at this point! rino's are losers, end of story. You can make all kinds of end arounds, but the FACT remains rino's have lost 4 out of the last 6 elections! And the 1st they won, Bush was selected! 3 rino losses in a row and you are out!

[citizen]

IMO, the missing are Paul non-voters. And too a lesser extent, disgruntled Gingrich and Santorum non-voters. They got what they wanted: an Obama win.
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Gee, thanks.

[SERKIT]

My vote didn’t count either. I am from ILL-ANNOY where my one vote cast is offset by three or more voters who are dead, plus another few who are voting twice, plus a few votes that are snuck past the goalie on ballot-box security breaches famously identified by the Argonne National Labs Center for Physical Security. Our problems are epic, criminal, and include institutional corruption. How in the hell do you fight that?

[ltc8k6]

The current count has Mitt about 1.17 million votes behind McCain. That will undoubtedly close up further.

It was ~3 million after the election, but that was well before the counting was finished.

[pepsi_junkie]

Conservatives not voting in CA or NJ or NY or MA or IL or states like that is understandable given the futility of voting against dems in those types of states but I will never accept that staying home on election day is okay. If nothing else, people showing up could have made the numbers close enough to preclude this attempt to convince us all that Obama got a landslide mandate, that now has the political capital to stuff socialist stuff down our throats and congress needs to get out of the way.

[Fiji Hill]

More than 1.1 million of the Republican votes were "lost" in California. It is not that California Republicans turned against Romney. His percentage of the vote was higher than McCain's in 2008. It is just they know their votes were in vain in that increasingly absurd state.

If California conservatives felt that way, they were morons. Did they only care about the presidency and ignore down-ticket races?

On Tuesday, the Democrats won super-majorities in both houses of the legislature, enabling them to push through any piece of zany left-wing legislation they desire, and it will be signed into law by Governor Moonbeam. Our losses included some good conservatives such as Assemblyman Chris Norby, who attended Occidental College, President Obama's alma mater, but actually graduated. If these losses occurred because Romney turned off the conservatives, then it shows how unsophisticated conservative voters are here in the Wine State.

[driftless2]

People who live in blue states should vote even if they know for sure their state, like Cal. or NY, is lost. Because final vote tallies can take away a so-called mandate from screwy, clown-dictators like Obama. He has to be a lot more circumspect thrusting socialism on the country.

[dforest]

People around here were very frank that if they were in states that were reliably blue, they didn’t need to vote.
Explains the difference.

Paul voters probably stayed home too.

[Skulllspitter]

Jack Cashill should stick to writing about things he understands.

[Qbert]

"... the results in several states do raise eyebrows, most notably Ohio and Pennsylvania.  Romney received nearly 100,000 fewer votes than McCain in the former and 35,000 fewer votes in the latter.  In all the other battleground states, Romney improved both on McCain's raw numbers and his percentage of the vote."

This does seem suspicious. Especially given the fact that Republican voters in PA and OH were well aware of Obama's war on coal, etc.

[bramps]

See and learn from my tagline.

[lasereye]

The fact that Romney probably didn't underperform McCain was pointed out here the day after the election.

The vote totals cited in this American Thinker article are still not final either. Probably Romney will end with about the same total votes as McCain nationally and outperforming McCain by a few percent excluding CA and NY. However this idea has taken hold that McCain got 3 million more votes than Romney and keeps getting repeated.

[oblomov]

How do they know that the missing Republicans are still residents of CA?

[lgjhn23]

The voting machines changed their Romney vote to one for Obama? Maybe that is where they went.

[Axenolith]

If those idiot Republicans HAD turned out in California, they probably wouldn’t have a demonRat supermajority in the statehouse, and prop 30 probably would have failed...

[Buckeye McFrog]

I am forced to conclude that they simply would not vote for a Mormon.

Sickens me when you consider that they would vote for a demented back-stabbing fossil like McCain, but there we be.

[observer_po]

They were there - at least in my opinion they had to be there with the many reasons. On election night I thought the results didn’t make sense.

For a few weeks I observed what was happening and I thought that Romney would win handily. My reasoning:

1. The 2010 elections - shellacking and a change in the US House unlike anything seen in 80 years or 8 decades.

2. Chick-fil-a day; and the pathetic counter-protests

3. Prop 8 in California; demographics were young, middle age and old Californians and Catholics/Protestants/Mormons.

4. The Unemployment rate

5. Obamacare

6. Violation of Conscience

7. Violation of Religions freedom

8. Fort Hood

9. Kill List

10. The cut in Military positions about 1 year ago

11. The 90 day pink slips

12. The Black voters in D.C. voting against Gay Marriage

13. The 2 SCOTUS cases on concealed carry (DC and Chicago)

14. DOMA

15. Don’t ask Don’t tell

16. Russia Flexibility

17. Poland

18. Keystone Pipe Line

19. Israel

20. eating “Beans and Franks”

21. “Take a pain-pill”

22. “You didn’t build that”

Seek to find evidence of Voter fraud; if it exists hopefully it will be seen.