Their talking points are widely disseminated through journolists in the media; you’re making their argument,as well as David Frum’s (Too old, too white, too male)
You do understand the difference between talking points and numbers, don’t you?
There’s reality, and there’s what you want to believe. What you want to believe doesn’t match reality.
There are quite a few states that actually are done or almost done counting.
Go here for state-by-state totals for 2008:
http://www.fec.gov/pubrec/fe2008/federalelections2008.pdf
And for 2012, some results:
Georgia:
http://results.enr.clarityelections.com/GA/42277/112424/en/summary.html
Kentucky:
http://results.enr.clarityelections.com/KY/43107/112742/en/summary.html
South Carolina:
http://www.enr-scvotes.org/SC/42513/112871/en/summary.html
So no calculations, no spreadsheet - actual numbers you can look at yourself.
You’ll notice Romney has more votes than McCain in all three states posted (and these are only 3 of the 32 states where that is true ALREADY, even with all the votes not being counted.)
How is it possible that Romney got more votes than McCain in Georgia, Kentucky, and South Carolina, yet millions of white base voters “stayed home?”